health-checks SKILL.md skillA
health-checks from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/health-checks@git:20260720.1dc980ePins git:20260720.1dc980e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/backend/health-checks/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260720.1dc980e, committed Jul 20, 2026
- Size
- 2,591 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Design liveness, readiness, and startup probes that heal real failures without amplifying outages. Use when wiring health endpoints or debugging restart loops and drained fleets.
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
# Health checks Three different questions, three different answers: should you restart me (liveness), should you send me traffic (readiness), am I still booting (startup). Conflating them turns partial outages into total ones. ## Method 1. **Liveness checks only the process.** Event loop responsive, not deadlocked: return 200 if the handler runs at all. Never include dependencies: if the database blips and liveness checks it, the orchestrator restart-loops your entire healthy fleet during the one moment it needs stability. 2. **Readiness checks ability to serve.** Required dependencies (DB pool has a connection, config loaded, migrations current) with short per-check timeouts, cached for a few seconds. Unready is recoverable and expected: during startup, shutdown drain (see graceful-shutdown), and dependency outages. 3. **Distinguish required from degradable dependencies.** The database is required; the recommendation service is not. Degradable dependencies never fail readiness; they flip feature flags and show up in metrics. Otherwise one optional system's outage drains every pod that could have served 90% of traffic. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/health-checks@sha256:2ab9b7aac39fa1dfThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260720.1dc980e, 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_77num2bini4os3lu)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 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 (2591 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
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_77num2bini4os3lu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/health-checks GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2ab9b7aac39fa1df6f5447724a1d7267ee07810ebab51728b31c817c8ea852f5
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.