Diagnose and fix stalled agent loops using the joelclaw CLI. Use when loops appear stuck, stories aren't progressing, or the event chain broke. Triggers on "loop stalled", "why isn't the loop progressing", "diagnose loops", "fix stuck loop", "loop not moving", "what happened to the loop", "stories stuck at pending", or any request to debug loop infrastructure.
Quickly install loop-diagnosis AI skill to your development environment via command line
Source: joelhooks/joelclaw.
Diagnose and fix stalled agent coding loops. This skill covers the diagnostic CLI, common failure modes, and the observability patterns that prevent silent stalls.
| CHAINBROKEN | Judge sent story.passed but plan never received it. Event lost in transit. | Re-fires agent/loop.story.passed → plan picks next story | | ORPHANEDCLAIM | Story claimed by an event, but agent died and no Inngest run is active. | Clears claim + re-fires plan event |
| STUCKRUN | Inngest run marked RUNNING but agent process is dead. Run won't complete. | Clears claims + re-fires (manual run cancellation may be needed in Inngest dashboard) | | WORKERUNHEALTHY | Worker registering fewer functions than expected. Missing imports or crash loop. | Restarts system-bus-worker deployment in k8s |
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npx skills add https://github.com/joelhooks/joelclaw --skill loop-diagnosisDiagnose and fix stalled agent loops using the joelclaw CLI. Use when loops appear stuck, stories aren't progressing, or the event chain broke. Triggers on "loop stalled", "why isn't the loop progressing", "diagnose loops", "fix stuck loop", "loop not moving", "what happened to the loop", "stories stuck at pending", or any request to debug loop infrastructure. Source: joelhooks/joelclaw.
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/joelhooks/joelclaw --skill loop-diagnosis Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenClaw
https://github.com/joelhooks/joelclaw