read-the-real-failing-call SKILL.md skillA
read-the-real-failing-call from iamakbarsha1/whetstone is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add iamakbarsha1/whetstone/read-the-real-failing-call@git:20261019.b3a119bPins git:20261019.b3a119b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- iamakbarsha1/whetstone
- Path
skills/read-the-real-failing-call/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261019.b3a119b, committed Oct 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 8, 2026
- Size
- 3,479 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- CC-BY-4.0
Use when hardening against a failure mode or fixing an intermittent/partial failure — instrument the real failing invocation before and after, because a plausible hypothesis is not a diagnosis. Triggers on "why is this failing", "flaky", "intermittent failures", "high failure rate", "harden this", "add retries", "it times out sometimes", and diagnosing a fix that didn't move the failure rate.
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
# Read the Real Failing Call **Type:** Open-source — client-agnostic methodology, no project-specific detail. **Created by akbarsha — https://github.com/iamakbarsha1** Distilled from a case where a plausible, well-tested fix left the real cause completely untouched. **Licence:** Released under CC BY 4.0 — share and adapt for any purpose with credit. Full text: `LICENSE` at the repository root. **Feedback & Support:** If a rule here proves wrong or needs sharpening, open an issue on the repository or contact the author at the profile link above. If the problem is the agent not following a rule below rather than the rule itself, that's an execution failure — acknowledge and correct it. ## The core rule A plausible failure hypothesis is not a diagnosis. When hardening against a hypothesized failure mode, capture the ACTUAL raw output/error of a real failing invocation both BEFORE and AFTER the fix. Don't infer the cause from symptoms or a plausible upstream theory. A fix that targets the hypothesized cause can pass all unit tests and still leave the real cause untouched; only a before/after on the live failing call proves which cause dominated. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add iamakbarsha1/whetstone/read-the-real-failing-call@sha256:cb0c97758c689ff1The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.b3a119b, 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 2 versions of this file, between Aug 8, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 71 days.
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| git:20261019.b3a119b latest | 2026-10-19 | b3a119b | 3,479 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260808.88c04b3 | 2026-08-08 | 88c04b3 | 2,641 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
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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
iamakbarsha1/whetstone · 4 stars · license CC-BY-4.0 · pushed 2026-10-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_szaximkehd6ylcio GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=iamakbarsha1/whetstone/read-the-real-failing-call GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cb0c97758c689ff1cec3d5059b31c1526cdad1f27a7e9f13d64a2fffb9dc1a76
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