hive.terminal-tools-troubleshooting SKILL.md skillA
hive.terminal-tools-troubleshooting from aden-hive/hive is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add aden-hive/hive/hive.terminal-tools-troubleshooting@v1.0Pins v1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- aden-hive/hive
- Path
core/framework/skills/_preset_skills/terminal-tools-troubleshooting/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0, committed May 1, 2026
- Size
- 4,820 bytes
- Repository stars
- 11,142
- License
- Apache-2.0
Read when a terminal-tools call returned something surprising — empty stdout despite no error, exit_code is null, output_handle came back expired, "too many jobs" / "session busy" / "too many PTYs", warning was set unexpectedly, semantic_status disagrees with exit_code. Diagnostic recipes only — load on demand. Don't preload; the foundational skill covers the happy path.
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
# Troubleshooting terminal-tools Recipes for surprising results. Match the symptom to the section. ## Empty `stdout` despite the command "should have" produced output Possible causes: 1. Output went to **stderr** instead. Check `stderr` in the envelope (or use `merge_stderr=True` for jobs). 2. Output was **fully truncated** because `max_output_kb` is too small. Check `stdout_truncated_bytes > 0`. Bump `max_output_kb` or paginate via `output_handle`. 3. Command produced no output (correct, just unexpected — `silent` flags, no matches). 4. Pipeline issue: the last stage of a pipe ran but stdout went elsewhere (`> /dev/null`, redirected via `2>&1`). 5. Process is buffering its output and didn't flush before exit. Add `stdbuf -oL` (line-buffered) or `unbuffer` to the command. ## `exit_code: null` | Cause | Other field | |---|---| | Auto-backgrounded | `auto_backgrounded: true, job_id: <X>` | | Hard timeout, process killed | `timed_out: true` | | Pre-spawn failure (command not found) | `error: ...` set, `pid: null` | | Still running (in `terminal_job_logs`) | `status: "running"` | ## `output_handle` returned `expired: true` …
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How to install
mdr add aden-hive/hive/hive.terminal-tools-troubleshooting@sha256:1b9d7c9762ab5ddaThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 1, 2026.
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Source
aden-hive/hive · 11,142 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4zjsm4bzaczkz7oh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aden-hive/hive/hive.terminal-tools-troubleshooting GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1b9d7c9762ab5ddae43cd13204768c2d6923c84d129e3546391f6a1257aa9be1
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