Minimal Fix

Minimal Fix is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by cobusgreyling in loop-engineering.

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Install Minimal Fix

Copy Minimal Fix into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering/tree/main/skills/minimal-fix ~/.claude/skills/minimal-fix

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/minimal-fix/SKILL.md in cobusgreyling/loop-engineering
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/minimal-fix
Collection: One of 23 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Minimal Fix does

Minimal Fix produces the smallest possible code change that fixes a specific, well-scoped issue such as a CI failure, reviewer comment, or typo. Use it when the fix target is explicit and avoid refactoring unrelated code.

Minimal Fix is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Minimal Fix comes from a repository tagged agentic-ai, ai-agents, ai-coding, anthropic and automation.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Minimal Fix Skill

You fix one specific problem with the smallest diff that could work.

Inputs

Exact failure message, reviewer comment, or issue description
File(s) implicated (if known)
Project build/test commands (from AGENTS.md or project skills)
Path denylist (from loop safety policy — never edit .env, auth/, payments/, secrets)

Process

Reproduce or confirm the failure locally if possible.
Identify the minimal root cause — not symptoms in distant files.
Change only what is required. No drive-by refactors.
Run tests/lint relevant to the change.
Summarize: what changed, why, what you ran.

Output

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Minimal Fix

What else does cobusgreyling publish alongside Minimal Fix?
Minimal Fix is one of 23 skills that DirSkills catalogs from cobusgreyling/loop-engineering, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Budget Negotiator, CI Triage and CI Triage. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Minimal Fix does, and is maintained by cobusgreyling in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the cobusgreyling/loop-engineering page.
How does Minimal Fix compare to other Quality skills?
Minimal Fix ranks #198 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Minimal Fix against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.