Find what the editing tangled. Structural pass for drafts and programs that have been worked over. Combs the whole draft or the whole program, not single strands.
An installable skill for AI agents.
Find structural problems left by repeated edits: stale references, contradictions, duplicated sections, and flows that no longer connect.
An agent reads the matching skill and writes a report. Review does not edit the source. Apply is a second skill, after you select findings.
| Object | Comb | Apply | A defect it can report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drafts | detangler | detangler-apply | “See Resources” after Resources was deleted |
| Programs | detangler-app | detangler-app-apply | A Settings item that goes nowhere |
On a draft, the comb also checks continuity: passages that make sense alone and do not develop. The method ends, then three asides sit between it and the example. The report names the interruption and where the example could sit. It does not rewrite the sentence. The app comb does not run that scope.
Copy the pair you need.
Get started: pick the agent, install the skill, then run a named example — detangler.dev/docs/install.
A writable workspace is required. Sample draft report: detangler.dev/docs/sample-report. Sample app report: detangler.dev/docs/sample-app-report.
Save this short note
as stale-reference.md, then ask:
Use Detangler on
stale-reference.md. Follow the installed Detangler skill. Write the report. Leave the note unchanged. This short fixture is an explicit first-run request.
The report lands in stale-reference.detangler/report.md. The note
should be unchanged. The report should flag the Resources pointers.
Install the review skill first. After that, install the matching apply skill. Name finding ids to apply those. Unnamed “apply the report” authorizes every finding marked broken. The agent states those ids before editing. Intentional-but-verify and judgment-call findings need separate approval.
For programs, use the broken-settings fixture on first use.
npm supplies the skill files. It does not register the skill with the agent.
pnpm add -D detangler
Copy node_modules/detangler/skills/<name>/ into the same destination
the Get started page names for
your agent.
Updating the npm dependency does not refresh a folder you already copied. Copy again after you bump the package.
Smell Check, Misemphasis, and Cold-eye are optional neighbors, not requirements.
MIT. Copyright Catalyst Forge LLC.
FAQs
Find what the editing tangled. Structural pass for drafts and programs that have been worked over. Combs the whole draft or the whole program, not single strands.
The npm package detangler receives a total of 54 weekly downloads. As such, detangler popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that detangler demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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