hive.error-recovery SKILL.md skillA
hive.error-recovery 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.error-recovery@git:20260417.803337ePins git:20260417.803337e 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/_default_skills/error-recovery/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260417.803337e, committed Apr 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 14, 2026
- Size
- 1,386 bytes
- Repository stars
- 11,113
- License
- Apache-2.0
Follow a structured recovery decision tree when tool calls fail instead of blindly retrying or giving up.
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
## Operational Protocol: Error Recovery
When a tool call fails:
1. **Diagnose** — classify the failure as *transient* (network blip, rate limit, timeout) or *structural* (wrong selector, missing auth, invalid schema, permission denied).
2. **Decide:**
- Transient → retry once.
- Structural + fixable → fix the input and retry.
- Structural + unfixable → record the failure and move to the next item.
- Blocking all progress → escalate.
3. **Adapt** — if the same tool has failed {{max_retries_per_tool}}+ times in a row, stop using it and find an alternative approach.
**Never silently drop a failed item.** If the item is a task in the colony queue, write the failure to the DB instead of an in-memory buffer:
```bash
sqlite3 "$DB_PATH" "UPDATE tasks SET status='failed', last_error='<one-sentence reason>', completed_at=datetime('now'), updated_at=datetime('now') WHERE id='<task-id>' AND worker_id='<your-worker-id>';"
```
The `tasks.retry_count` column and the stale-claim reclaimer handle auto-retry for crashes; your job is the within-run decision tree above. See `hive.colony-progress-tracker` for the full queue protocol.Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add aden-hive/hive/hive.error-recovery@sha256:a0a3cd0f686e8733The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260417.803337e, 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 4 versions of this file, between Mar 14, 2026 and Apr 17, 2026, about one every 11 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260417.803337e latest | 2026-04-17 | 803337e | 1,386 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260416.e719523 | 2026-04-16 | e719523 | 1,363 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260318.0cef0e6 | 2026-03-18 | 0cef0e6 | 685 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260314.cdaec8a | 2026-03-14 | cdaec8a | 662 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 (1386 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
aden-hive/hive · 11,113 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ahjx2mtqrymraqev GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aden-hive/hive/hive.error-recovery GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a0a3cd0f686e873382395340397286d97832bba1b86be6d460664983f8fc65bd
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