Unstuck

by coreyhaines31

Unstuck is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by coreyhaines31 in makerskills.

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Install Unstuck

Copy Unstuck 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/coreyhaines31/makerskills/tree/main/skills/unstuck ~/.claude/skills/unstuck

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/coreyhaines31/makerskills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/unstuck/SKILL.md in coreyhaines31/makerskills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/unstuck
Collection: One of 20 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Unstuck does

Unstuck classifies a blocked problem, attacks assumptions, and generates multiple lateral-thinking angles when a task seems impossible. Use it when an API, person, or constraint says no and you need viable next moves.

Unstuck is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Unstuck comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agents, claude-code, claude-skills and personal-knowledge-management.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

/unstuck — The roadblock antidote

Turns "impossible" into angles. Classifies the wall, runs the right lateral-thinking techniques against it, and doesn't stop at the first mediocre workaround. Output is either a set of viable angles with next actions — or an honest "this wall is load-bearing, reroute the goal."

Two modes:

User-invoked — someone is stuck and asks. Full 7-step workflow below.
Agent fast path — YOU (the agent) hit the wall mid-task. See Agent fast path — run it before telling the user something can't be done.

The mental model: walls have types, and the type picks the crowbar

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

Commands Unstuck provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/unstuck
/deep-research
/decide

Frequently asked about Unstuck

What else does coreyhaines31 publish alongside Unstuck?
Unstuck is one of 20 skills that DirSkills catalogs from coreyhaines31/makerskills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Business Brainstorm, Company Brain and Company CFO. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Unstuck does, and is maintained by coreyhaines31 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the coreyhaines31/makerskills page.
How does Unstuck compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Unstuck ranks #1792 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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 Unstuck against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.