Agent skill

Fix At The Boundary

by BuilderIO in BuilderIO/agent-native

How to find every sibling instance of a reported bug before fixing it.

No licenceAuto-check passedTesting & QA

Install Fix At The Boundary

skills CLI
$ npx skills add BuilderIO/agent-native --skill fix-at-the-boundary -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install BuilderIO/agent-native fix-at-the-boundary --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BuilderIO/agent-native.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/fix-at-the-boundary .claude/skills/fix-at-the-boundary && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
fix-at-the-boundary
GitHub stars
7.1k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
544 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
102
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

How to find every sibling instance of a reported bug before fixing it.

  • Works in 5 steps: Derive the fingerprint from the symptom,… → Search before editing → Enumerate every hit before touching any… → …
  • A bug report names one file but the defect is a call pattern
  • SKILL.md covers Activation guard, Workflow, Reporting the sweep and Why this exists, plus 1 more section
  • Calls rg

What it does

Fix At The Boundary is an agent skill from BuilderIO/agent-native. How to find every sibling instance of a reported bug before fixing it. Use whenever a bug report names one file but the defect is a call pattern, hook, duplicated literal, or copy-pasted helper that plausibly exists in other files, apps, or templates.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Testing & QA, covering QA and bug reports. The repository describes itself as: A framework for building agentic apps.

When your agent uses it

  • A bug report names one file but the defect is a call pattern
  • Duplicated literal
  • Copy-pasted helper that plausibly exists in other files

Example prompts

  • “/fix-at-the-boundary”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Derive the fingerprint from the symptom, not the file: the exact
  2. Search before editing
  3. Enumerate every hit before touching any file — write the list in your
  4. Decide where the fix lives. A shared helper some callers bypass →
  5. Apply the fix to every in-scope hit.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit be0d784. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • rg

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Fix At The Boundary loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 68 tokens; SKILL.md has 544 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~68
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 544 words (~1,159 tokens).

“Use this skill when a reported bug's root cause is a pattern — a function shape, a write sequence, a device/permission check, a duplicated literal, a copy-pasted helper — rather than a fact unique to the one file named in…”

— opening of SKILL.md by BuilderIO
name
fix-at-the-boundary
scope
dev
metadata.internal
true

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/fix-at-the-boundary of BuilderIO/agent-native.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit be0d784

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Categories

Questions about Fix At The Boundary

What does Fix At The Boundary do?

How to find every sibling instance of a reported bug before fixing it. Fix At The Boundary is an agent skill from BuilderIO/agent-native. How to find every sibling instance of a reported bug before fixing it.

When should I use Fix At The Boundary?

Fix At The Boundary fits situations like: A bug report names one file but the defect is a call pattern; duplicated literal; copy-pasted helper that plausibly exists in other files.

How do I install Fix At The Boundary in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add BuilderIO/agent-native --skill fix-at-the-boundary -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/fix-at-the-boundary in BuilderIO/agent-native) into .claude/skills/fix-at-the-boundary in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Fix At The Boundary in Codex?

Run `npx skills add BuilderIO/agent-native --skill fix-at-the-boundary -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/fix-at-the-boundary in BuilderIO/agent-native) into .agents/skills/fix-at-the-boundary in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Fix At The Boundary in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add BuilderIO/agent-native --skill fix-at-the-boundary -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/fix-at-the-boundary, .gemini/skills/fix-at-the-boundary, .github/skills/fix-at-the-boundary and .opencode/skills/fix-at-the-boundary in your project.

What does Fix At The Boundary need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Fix At The Boundary needs the command-line tools its instructions call (rg).

Does Fix At The Boundary access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Fix At The Boundary safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Fix At The Boundary use?

No licence was found for Fix At The Boundary or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Fix At The Boundary use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Fix At The Boundary?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Fix At The Boundary: Reproduce Chat States (different-ai/openwork, 24k stars), Dynamo Jira Ticket (DynamoDS/Dynamo, 2k stars), Moav E2E (MotherofallVPNs/MoaV, 448 stars) and Creating A Coral Task (Human-Agent-Society/CORAL, 1.1k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Fix At The Boundary?

BuilderIO (a GitHub organization) maintains it in BuilderIO/agent-native, which has 7,103 GitHub stars. The repository holds 102 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: BuilderIO/agent-native on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.