agent-introspection-debugging SKILL.md skillA
agent-introspection-debugging from affaan-m/ecc is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add affaan-m/ecc/agent-introspection-debugging@git:20260918.c752aacPins git:20260918.c752aac in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- affaan-m/ecc
- Path
.agents/skills/agent-introspection-debugging/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260918.c752aac, committed Sep 18, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 6, 2026
- Size
- 5,616 bytes
- Repository stars
- 284,510
- License
- MIT
Structured self-debugging workflow for AI agent failures using capture, diagnosis, contained recovery, and introspection reports. Use when an agent run fails and you need a reproducible diagnosis instead of a retry.
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
# Agent Introspection Debugging Use this skill when an agent run is failing repeatedly, consuming tokens without progress, looping on the same tools, or drifting away from the intended task. This is a workflow skill, not a hidden runtime. It teaches the agent to debug itself systematically before escalating to a human. ## When to Activate - Maximum tool call / loop-limit failures - Repeated retries with no forward progress - Context growth or prompt drift that starts degrading output quality - File-system or environment state mismatch between expectation and reality - Tool failures that are likely recoverable with diagnosis and a smaller corrective action ## Scope Boundaries Activate this skill for: - capturing failure state before retrying blindly - diagnosing common agent-specific failure patterns - applying contained recovery actions - producing a structured human-readable debug report Do not use this skill as the primary source for: - feature verification after code changes; use `verification-loop` - framework-specific debugging when a narrower ECC skill already exists - runtime promises the current harness cannot enforce automatically ## Four-Phase Loop …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add affaan-m/ecc/agent-introspection-debugging@sha256:5357d123cf8cee6dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260918.c752aac, 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_pef2vkshne5j7q52)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Apr 6, 2026 and Sep 18, 2026, about one every 55 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260918.c752aac latest | 2026-09-18 | c752aac | 5,616 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260812.d29cf65 | 2026-08-12 | d29cf65 | 5,603 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260429.d89f8d8 | 2026-04-29 | d89f8d8 | 5,517 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260406.e09c548 | 2026-04-06 | e09c548 | 5,529 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 (5616 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
affaan-m/ecc · 284,510 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pef2vkshne5j7q52 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=affaan-m/ecc/agent-introspection-debugging GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5357d123cf8cee6dc2e901542a28a19d7ee9e939e34528d27987897318bcfbf6
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.