Depth Lock

Lock scope, review rounds and wall-clock checkpoints before non-trivial work, and send everything outside the task to follow-ups. Use at the start of any plan, feature, fix train or multi-agent workflow, when a review loop starts repeating, when findings drift beyond the task, or when the operator says "не полируй", "не растягивай", "полировка круглого камня", "stop polishing" or "timebox".

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add malakhov-dmitrii/depth-lock --skill depth-lock

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/malakhov-dmitrii/depth-lock.git /tmp/depth-lock
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/depth-lock/. ~/.claude/skills/depth-lock

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# Depth lock

Finish the task at the agreed depth, fast. Robust means the safety invariants hold. It does not mean endless review rounds or cleanup of neighbouring code.

## 1. Before building: write the scope lock into the task journal

Use the active task journal (for example `.agent/tasks/<task>.md`). If there is no journal, put it in the plan file.

```
## Scope lock
Goal: <one user-visible sentence>
Acceptance: <testable bullets: what proves it works>
In scope: <items or conditions>
Non-goals: <explicit list, including tempting refactors>
Blockers (the only findings that stop the ship): <project list; default: duplicate action (double send, charge or write), lost data, stuck state with no recovery, security hole, broken production path>
Review caps: plan ≤ 2 rounds, code ≤ 2 rounds; every round after the first reports blockers only
Checkpoints (wall clock, UTC): plan HH:MM · build HH:MM · gate HH:MM · ship HH:MM
Follow-ups: <journal section, issue tracker or spawned tasks>
```

- Estimate in agent wall-clock time with parallel agents, not in human-team days.
- If the scope is clear, state the lock and proceed. Ask the operator only when the scope is genuinely ambiguous.

## 2. During the work

- Classify every review finding as `blocking`, `deferred` or `approved-expansion`. Only `blocking` findings and approved expansions enter the current work.
- A later review round gets the prompt "blockers only; no style, naming, nice-to-haves or scope expansion".

Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name: depth-lock
Repository: malakhov-dmitrii/depth-lock
License: MIT
Repo updated: 1 October 2026

FAQ

What does the Depth Lock skill do?

How do I install the Depth Lock skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add malakhov-dmitrii/depth-lock --skill depth-lock. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Depth Lock popular?

It lives in malakhov-dmitrii/depth-lock, which has 5 GitHub stars and 1 forks.

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