explain-error SKILL.md skillA
explain-error from brattlof/skillet is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add brattlof/skillet/explain-error@git:20260613.d956a80Pins git:20260613.d956a80 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- brattlof/skillet
- Path
examples/explain-error/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260613.d956a80, committed Jun 13, 2026
- Size
- 706 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- MIT
Explain a stack trace or error message and suggest concrete fixes.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# explain-error Use this when the user pastes an error, a stack trace, or failing build output. 1. Find the actual failure: the first real error, not the cascade of messages after it. 2. Explain in plain language what it means and the most likely cause. 3. Point at the specific file and line when the trace gives one. 4. Suggest one or two concrete fixes, with the exact change to make. 5. If the cause is ambiguous, say what to check or run next to narrow it down. Prefer the smallest fix that addresses the root cause over a workaround, and say so when you are guessing rather than certain.
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add brattlof/skillet/explain-error@sha256:d73948821ed49eb5The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260613.d956a80, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3p4lp3kddpcqkjxj)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 13, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (706 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
brattlof/skillet · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3p4lp3kddpcqkjxj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=brattlof/skillet/explain-error GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d73948821ed49eb516e366bc66c22b56108b74fd7ad314a7a00c5bfd57871140
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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