partial-failure-handling SKILL.md skillA
partial-failure-handling 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/partial-failure-handling@git:20260728.419e522Pins git:20260728.419e522 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/api-integration/partial-failure-handling/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260728.419e522, committed Jul 28, 2026
- Size
- 1,877 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Handle operations that touch several services where some succeed and some fail, without leaving inconsistent state. Use when a single user action calls multiple systems.
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
# Partial failure handling An action spanning several services succeeds partially by default: the payment took, the record did not save, the email never sent. Distributed transactions are not available, so the answer is design rather than rollback. ## Method 1. **Order operations so the reversible ones come first.** Do the undoable work last, which minimises what must be compensated (see agent-delegation-protocol for the analogous reasoning). 2. **Make each step idempotent.** Retrying the whole operation must not duplicate the steps that already succeeded (see idempotency). 3. **Record progress durably between steps.** A record of what has completed is what lets a retry resume rather than restart. 4. **Design compensating actions for what cannot be retried.** A refund compensates a charge, since undoing is often impossible but compensating is not (see saga-pattern). 5. **Prefer eventual consistency with a reconciler.** A background process that detects and repairs mismatches is more robust than attempting atomicity across services. 6. **Surface partial state honestly to the user.** Payment taken, order …
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How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/partial-failure-handling@sha256:95b652a9ac86b355The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.419e522, 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 Jul 28, 2026.
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_krpzf375frrz5tvj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/partial-failure-handling GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/95b652a9ac86b3558547feb7519c1476661bc6a7d2f3866eb56a18dbde1d3d22
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.