sqlerrorlog-review SKILL.md skillB

sqlerrorlog-review from vanterx/mssql-performance-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add vanterx/mssql-performance-skills/sqlerrorlog-review@git:20261006.2c73ad2

Pins git:20261006.2c73ad2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
B, 16 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
vanterx/mssql-performance-skills
Path
skills/sqlerrorlog-review/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261006.2c73ad2, committed Oct 6, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 5, 2026
Size
38,403 bytes
Repository stars
12
License
MIT

Analyzes SQL Server ERRORLOG files for operational issues, availability group failures, memory pressure, I/O subsystem warnings, and security events. Use this skill whenever a SQL Server instance has experienced unexpected behavior, an AG failover, memory warnings, I/O latency alerts, or abnormal shutdown, and you need a structured timeline of what SQL Server recorded. Applies 34 checks (E1–E34) covering AG health, memory/resource pressure, I/O and storage, startup/shutdown, connectivity…

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

# SQL Server ERRORLOG Review Skill

## Purpose

Parse and analyze SQL Server ERRORLOG content to surface operational warnings, high-availability
failures, resource pressure signals, security events, and configuration anomalies. Applies 34
checks (E1–E34) across seven categories:

- **E1–E8** — AG / High Availability: failovers, lease expiry, replica state changes, synchronization errors
- **E9–E14** — Memory and resource pressure: page allocation failures, OS paging, worker exhaustion, non-yielding schedulers
- **E15–E19** — I/O and storage: slow I/O subsystem, corruption warnings, tempdb exhaustion, log backup gaps, VLF proliferation
- **E20–E24** — Startup, shutdown, and connectivity: abnormal termination, restart cycling, login failure bursts, linked server errors
- **E25–E28** — Configuration and informational: trace flags, unconfigured max memory, log rotation gaps, version end-of-support
- **E29–E33** — SQL 2019/2022 modern features: ADR PVS cleanup stall, IQP DOP feedback, Ledger verification failure, CE feedback model change, Azure Arc agent disconnect
- **E34** — Engine diagnostics: stack and memory dumps, and the trigger recorded immediately before them
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add vanterx/mssql-performance-skills/sqlerrorlog-review@sha256:41f1f8af0d26dacf

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261006.2c73ad2, 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 6 versions of this file, between Jun 5, 2026 and Oct 6, 2026, about one every 25 days. Its first recorded version is graded A and its latest B.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261006.2c73ad2 latest2026-10-06 2c73ad2 38,403 BB view · diff
git:20261005.82f30be2026-10-05 82f30be 37,209 BA view · diff
git:20260622.55f8c852026-06-22 55f8c85 35,348 BA view · diff
git:20260618.bc5c50b2026-06-18 bc5c50b 35,063 BA view · diff
git:20260607.6ff4f7a2026-06-07 6ff4f7a 35,038 BA view · diff
git:20260605.9ec0ebe2026-06-05 9ec0ebe 34,254 BA view

Audit of the latest version

B  16 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • fail: No prompt-injection phrasing (matched: ignore the previous instructions)
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (38403 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 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

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Source

GitHub

vanterx/mssql-performance-skills · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_u3ejdk6ifqfn2sf4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vanterx/mssql-performance-skills/sqlerrorlog-review
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/41f1f8af0d26dacf1df95ff89c9c73bcbc737d0bbdbba2220f9ab7f409404e9d

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