failure-forensics SKILL.md skillA
failure-forensics from cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/failure-forensics@git:20261021.4372ea9Pins git:20261021.4372ea9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents
- Path
skills/failure-forensics/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261021.4372ea9, committed Oct 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 22, 2026
- Size
- 2,874 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Read the wreckage before rebuilding. Use for incident post-mortems, "what happens when everything goes wrong at once?", flaky or anomalous cases being filtered out as noise, "that's weird" moments nobody wrote down, oscillating or unstable feedback behavior, and designs whose only failure mode is crash.
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
# Failure Forensics **Problem shape:** something failed (or will fail) and the evidence is being averaged away, cleaned up, or explained by its most convenient story. The move: treat anomalies as data, reconstruct the timeline at the right timescale, and design the degraded state as a first-class behavior. ## Relevant geniuses | Agent | Use when | |---|---| | [hamilton](../../agents/genius/hamilton.md) | overload and simultaneous failure scenarios; priority shedding by criticality; the degraded mode is undesigned; "users will never do that" | | [mcclintock](../../agents/genius/mcclintock.md) | aggregate metrics look smooth but one specific case is weird; a class of observations is being trimmed as noise | | [fleming](../../agents/genius/fleming.md) | anomalies keep appearing during routine work and being cleaned up; "that's weird" said and never investigated | | [ginzburg](../../agents/genius/ginzburg.md) | reconstruct what happened from marginal traces and involuntary evidence (logs, timestamps, artifacts nobody meant to leave) | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/failure-forensics@sha256:8c102eec575cadfcThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261021.4372ea9, 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 3 versions of this file, between Jul 22, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, about one every 46 days.
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| git:20261021.4372ea9 latest | 2026-10-21 | 4372ea9 | 2,874 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260805.e8cc65e | 2026-08-05 | e8cc65e | 2,813 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260722.b89f9c1 | 2026-07-22 | b89f9c1 | 2,785 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2874 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
cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rhgcyfahou2qm23i GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/failure-forensics GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8c102eec575cadfca2ebe21385f7e64858e54eae4b21550c8f1b0cb15f6d7c39
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