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title: "Avoid Scope Creep - Air Market"
description: "You ask for one small fix and get back a diff touching half the project, with refactors and style changes you never wanted. This addresses that: only what was explicitly asked for gets changed. Reach…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/avoid-scope-creep"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / Avoid Scope Creep

Skill by [AIMING Lab](/@aiming-lab)

# Avoid Scope Creep

You asked for one change, so you get one change

## What this does

You ask for one small fix and get back a diff touching half the project, with refactors and style changes you never wanted. This addresses that: only what was explicitly asked for gets changed. Reach for it when you want a targeted edit and nothing else.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Keep a change to what you asked for
- Leave unrelated code alone
- Skip the tidy-up nobody requested

## Information

**Avoid Scope Creep at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [AIMING Lab](/@aiming-lab) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 841 bytes |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [aiming-lab/MetaClaw](https://github.com/aiming-lab/MetaClaw/tree/fc163ba8a12ba5e6950544c3e0d55707c16e2a7e/memory_data/skills/avoid-scope-creep) |
| GitHub stars | 3,496 (as of Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Avoid Scope Creep and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Avoid Scope Creep's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | fc163ba8a12ba5e6950544c3e0d55707c16e2a7e |
| Content hash | 059fb3540e4fd5cd2e1ddb7b9bfd5bd421c83e276cf248b38b2f4125947d0183 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/aiming-lab/MetaClaw/blob/fc163ba8a12ba5e6950544c3e0d55707c16e2a7e/memory_data/skills/avoid-scope-creep/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Avoid Scope Creep](/security/avoid-scope-creep)

## About Avoid Scope Creep

This addresses a common mistake: doing unrequested work - refactoring, adding extra features, cleaning up style - when the ask was for a specific, targeted change.

The rule is to change only what was explicitly asked for.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is Avoid Scope Creep safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Avoid Scope Creep and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit fc163ba8a12b, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/avoid-scope-creep.

### How do I install Avoid Scope Creep?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/avoid-scope-creep on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/aiming-lab/MetaClaw/tree/fc163ba8a12ba5e6950544c3e0d55707c16e2a7e/memory_data/skills/avoid-scope-creep. Install from that link, not the branch.

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- [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools)
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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/avoid-scope-creep>