distributed-failure-catalogue SKILL.md skillA
distributed-failure-catalogue from robsonkades/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add robsonkades/agent-skills/distributed-failure-catalogue@git:20260927.9ecadfdPins git:20260927.9ecadfd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- robsonkades/agent-skills
- Path
skills/distributed-failure-catalogue/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260927.9ecadfd, committed Sep 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 3, 2026
- Size
- 13,195 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- Apache-2.0
Evidence-oriented recognition index for recurring distributed failure shapes: overload amplification, gray and asymmetric failure, split ownership, stale work, mixed versions, correlated faults, silent stagnation, missing effects and destructive automation. Use to turn incident observations into discriminable hypotheses and route each to the skill owning diagnosis and remediation. It is not a substitute for the owner skill or causal evidence.
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
# Distributed Failure Catalogue ## Purpose Turn a symptom into a name, and a name into the skill that owns the fix. Distributed failures recur in a small number of shapes; an engineer who can name the shape reaches the right mechanism in minutes instead of rediscovering it during an incident. This skill deliberately **does not teach the fixes**. Every entry ends at an owner, because a catalogue that also explained the remedies would drift out of step with the skills that own them. Destructive cleanup is the explicit exception, with bounded guard guidance below. Its value is recognition and routing — and, for a design review, a list of concrete failures to argue a design against rather than a general appeal to robustness. ## Workflow This is a protocol/operations catalogue, with no Java language minimum. The scheduled-task and elapsed-time references use Java 25 API documentation for long-standing contracts. Inspect the target runtime, scheduler/framework, client retry defaults and deployment configuration before applying version-sensitive claims; this skill does not authorize upgrades or fault injection. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add robsonkades/agent-skills/distributed-failure-catalogue@sha256:f555f591b2a79cfeThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260927.9ecadfd, 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 5 versions of this file, between Sep 3, 2026 and Sep 27, 2026, about one every 6 days.
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| git:20260927.9ecadfd latest | 2026-09-27 | 9ecadfd | 13,195 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260923.832673e | 2026-09-23 | 832673e | 12,336 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260911.37b054b | 2026-09-11 | 37b054b | 11,892 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.e6ad4bd | 2026-09-06 | e6ad4bd | 11,225 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260903.f199530 | 2026-09-03 | f199530 | 10,470 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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Source
robsonkades/agent-skills · 3 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mr7qubry6o2z5gqb GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=robsonkades/agent-skills/distributed-failure-catalogue GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f555f591b2a79cfe60de28c6c910de02e4fcb778fee1107b207cd1a0d746ff4c
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