investigating-runs SKILL.md skillA
investigating-runs from technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/investigating-runs@git:20260520.b9c7fbdPins git:20260520.b9c7fbd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins
- Path
plugins/github-actions/skills/investigating-runs/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260520.b9c7fbd, committed May 20, 2026
- Size
- 7,387 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12
- License
- MIT
Use whenever the user mentions a GitHub Actions / GHA run, even casually — invoke this skill before reaching for raw `gh` commands, because the bundled `gha-snapshot` helper distills `gh run view --log-failed` (a firehose) into a readable block with per-job status, failed-step log tails, and annotations. Specific triggers (any one is enough): a `github.com/.../actions/runs/...` URL; the phrase "GitHub Actions" or "GHA"; the `gh run` CLI; a failing workflow / job / step / check; a PR with red…
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
# Investigating GitHub Actions Runs
## Overview
This skill helps you investigate failing GitHub Actions runs. It covers **checking status, finding the root failure, and reading log output efficiently** — not authoring workflow YAML, not driving a fix-then-rerun loop. Load it when working with an existing run (failed CI, red PR check, "why is this broken").
## Why `gha-snapshot`?
One command, one ref, gets you everything: run metadata, per-job status, the failed step's log tail, and annotations — in a single readable block. `gh run view --log-failed` is a firehose; `gha-snapshot` distills it.
## Tool hierarchy
Use in this order. Don't skip ahead unless the current tier can't answer the question.
### 1. `gha-snapshot` (primary)
```bash
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/gha-snapshot <ref>
```
Accepts any of:
| Input | Example |
|-------|---------|
| Full URL | `gha-snapshot https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/actions/runs/123` |
| Run ID (uses cwd's repo) | `gha-snapshot 123` |
| PR number | `gha-snapshot --pr 42` |
| Default (latest failed run on current branch) | `gha-snapshot` |
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/investigating-runs@sha256:0a0da64b5358feb7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260520.b9c7fbd, 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_63w7ger4wnnjnfb3)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 20, 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 (7387 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
technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_63w7ger4wnnjnfb3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/investigating-runs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0a0da64b5358feb78e8b8898beb9d3ffbd3ce8d24531bbed751e8f39d07a69c0
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