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 "generated": "2026-10-24",
 "id": "jinhanbuilds-hoist-the-elephant--re-anchor-drifted-agent-conversation",
 "repo": "jinhanbuilds/hoist-the-elephant",
 "repo_url": "https://github.com/jinhanbuilds/hoist-the-elephant",
 "repo_slug": "jinhanbuilds-hoist-the-elephant",
 "title": "Re-anchor a drifted agent conversation to its real mission",
 "page_title": "How to re-anchor a drifted agent conversation to its real mission with Hoist the Elephant",
 "summary": "Stop repeated local corrections and recover the mainline before the agent keeps going.",
 "who": "A person working with an AI agent on a long task, where each fix looks right but the overall result feels increasingly wrong.",
 "problem": "The agent answers the latest feedback, overcorrects, gets corrected again, and a local problem slowly replaces the original goal.",
 "outcome": "The agent rereads the conversation, restates the governing mainline and hard constraints, and pauses so the user can confirm or correct it before work resumes.",
 "steps": [
  "Run `npx skills add jinhanbuilds/hoist-the-elephant --skill hoist-the-elephant -y`",
  "Reopen the Agent host after installation",
  "Type `$hoist-the-elephant` in the conversation that has drifted",
  "Read the recovered mission, accumulated understanding, constraints, and rejected directions",
  "Confirm the anchor or correct any gap before asking the agent to continue"
 ],
 "agent_prompt": "Using the hoist-the-elephant Skill from jinhanbuilds/hoist-the-elephant, re-anchor this conversation about <task>. Output the recovered mainline, hard constraints, and rejected directions, then wait for my confirmation. Verify that the output states any missing history instead of filling it in.",
 "agents": [
  "any"
 ],
 "difficulty": "Intermediate",
 "time": "15 minutes",
 "basis": "readme",
 "caveat": "The Skill does not resume implementation after the reset, and it needs the relevant conversation history to be visible.",
 "category": "Work and operations",
 "tags": [
  "Work and operations"
 ],
 "lang": "javascript",
 "requirements": [
  "An Agent host that supports the Agent Skills specification, such as one the cross-host skills CLI can install into",
  "Node.js and npm, for the one-line install and the npm scripts",
  "Access to the relevant conversation history, since the Skill reports gaps instead of rebuilding missing history"
 ],
 "risk": "none",
 "seen_in_the_wild": false,
 "mentioned_publicly": false,
 "risks": [],
 "best": true,
 "score": 1.0,
 "evidence": [],
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