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title: "Surgical patch - Air Market"
description: "Something in your code is broken, or needs a small adjustment, and you do not want the fix to disturb everything sitting next to it. This makes the change in the smallest part of the code that is act…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/surgical-patch"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / Surgical patch

Skill by [Julius Brussee](/@juliusbrussee)

# Surgical patch

Fix what broke without breaking anything else

## What this does

Something in your code is broken, or needs a small adjustment, and you do not want the fix to disturb everything sitting next to it. This makes the change in the smallest part of the code that is actually responsible for the problem. Reach for it whenever you need to be sure the rest of the program still works the way it did before.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Fix a bug by changing only what has to change
- Keep the code around my change behaving as before
- Get tests aimed at the exact change I made

## Information

**Surgical patch at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Julius Brussee](/@juliusbrussee) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 858 bytes |
| Licence | _Not recorded_ |
| Repository | [juliusbrussee/caveman](https://github.com/juliusbrussee/caveman/tree/a0109974ea3258a14aadaef1ed1f8ff2837d30d5/skills/surgical-patch) |
| GitHub stars | 118,504 (as of Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Surgical patch and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Surgical patch's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | a0109974ea3258a14aadaef1ed1f8ff2837d30d5 |
| Content hash | 80d1260d71a4adf5198f357745282ca125a450b9728db21787695cc0b4842305 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/juliusbrussee/caveman/blob/a0109974ea3258a14aadaef1ed1f8ff2837d30d5/skills/surgical-patch/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 Surgical patch](/security/surgical-patch)

## About Surgical patch

Fixes and small changes in behavior land at the narrowest layer responsible for the problem. That keeps the edit small on purpose, and it keeps the code around the change doing what it did before.

Reach for it when showing the fix does not cause regressions matters, when surrounding behavior has to stay as it was, and when tests tied to the specific task are part of finishing the job.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- agents/openai.yaml - data

## Questions

### Is Surgical patch safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Surgical patch and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit a0109974ea32, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/surgical-patch.

### How do I install Surgical patch?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/surgical-patch 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/juliusbrussee/caveman/tree/a0109974ea3258a14aadaef1ed1f8ff2837d30d5/skills/surgical-patch. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools)
- [Everything by Julius Brussee](/@juliusbrussee)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/surgical-patch>