recovery-classification SKILL.md skillA
recovery-classification from naimkatiman/continuous-improvement is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/recovery-classification@git:20260517.966ce51Pins git:20260517.966ce51 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- naimkatiman/continuous-improvement
- Path
plugins/continuous-improvement/skills/recovery-classification/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260517.966ce51, committed May 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 9, 2026
- Size
- 4,799 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- MIT
Enforces Law 4 (Verify Before Reporting) of the 7 Laws of AI Agent Discipline. After any failure in the verification ladder or auto-loop, classify the failure class before retrying — provider, tool-schema, deterministic-policy, git, worktree, runtime — so retry-vs-pause-vs-self-heal-vs-stop is an intentional decision, not a generic 'try again'.
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
# Recovery Classification Skill When a phase or unit fails, name the failure class first. Generic "retry on failure" hides repeatable failure modes and turns them into flaky tests. ## When to Use - After any Phase 1–6 failure in `verification-loop`. - After any auto-loop unit that exits non-zero. - After any tool call the harness rejects (schema validation, policy gate, deterministic block). - Before re-running anything that just failed — classification fires once, before the first retry. ## Why This Skill Exists GSD-2's [CONTEXT.md](https://github.com/gsd-build/gsd-2/blob/main/CONTEXT.md) names "Recovery Classification" as one of four runtime invariant modules. Common failure modes it catches: - **Deterministic-policy blocks misclassified as generic provider failures** — gateguard denials retried in a loop until budget is exhausted. - **Schema-validation failures retried verbatim** — wasting tokens on a call the validator will keep rejecting. - **Stale-worker / stale-lock states** — no retry can resolve a worker that died holding a lock; the loop just spins. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/recovery-classification@sha256:9e66e748bd08a087The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260517.966ce51, 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 2 versions of this file, between May 9, 2026 and May 17, 2026, about one every 8 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260517.966ce51 latest | 2026-05-17 | 966ce51 | 4,799 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260509.0df8c0f | 2026-05-09 | 0df8c0f | 4,777 B | A | view |
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 (4799 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
naimkatiman/continuous-improvement · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7bskhzww2lt43xpq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/recovery-classification GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9e66e748bd08a0877c546cf3a71899795af840826c574fef7d6c2e52301c62c6
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