devopsby fradser

Start Hotfix

fradser/start-hotfix

Source fradser/dotclaude ↗License MIT

Begins a hotfix for a production issue using git-flow. This skill should be used when the user asks to "start a hotfix", "create hotfix branch", "fix a critical bug", "git flow hotfix start", or wants to begin a hotfix. Accepts either an explicit version or a natural-language description of the fix.

NewMaintained

On-demandOn-demand: invoked explicitly — never occupies your agent's context until called.

DevOps & SRE pack

Last verified 8/29/2026

What it changes

3 of 22 test cases passed with the skill.

Pass-rate lift: —
Tokens: +164%
Agent turns: 0%
Response time: +176%

Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/29/2026v23 of 22 cases passed with skill · 5 comparable

Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.

Lift withheld: 5 comparable cases; this report requires 8.

Use this skill

Save it into your project's skills folder. Claude Code picks it up in its next session.

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/fradser-start-hotfix/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/fradser-start-hotfix/SKILL.md

Want it pinned and updatable? pip install "decimalai>=0.15", then decimalai skills add fradser-start-hotfix, and start Claude Code with claude --plugin-dir "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.agents"

1 · One-time — install the CLI (docs ↗)

pip install "decimalai>=0.15"

2 · Get the skill — writes .agents/skills/fradser-start-hotfix/ and pins it in .decimal/skills.lock

decimalai skills add fradser-start-hotfix

No CLI? Get the same file — curl · raw file

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/fradser-start-hotfix/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/fradser-start-hotfix/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/fradser-start-hotfix/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/fradser-start-hotfix.json ↗

Safety checks: 3 of 3 passed

Code scan CleanIntent PassedContent Clean

What's inside

The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.

SKILL.md7 linessingle file

Workflow Execution

Launch a general-purpose agent that executes the start-hotfix workflow.

Follow the pipeline in ../../references/gitflow-start-pipeline.md:

Workflow Type: hotfix
Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Track record

Benchmark

3 / 22

test cases passed with the skill

Adoption

Users: 0
Times used: 0

Safety and source details

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v5 — 8/17/2026

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IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review