estuary-task-health SKILL.md skillA
estuary-task-health from estuary/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add estuary/agent-skills/estuary-task-health@git:20260505.8873932Pins git:20260505.8873932 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- estuary/agent-skills
- Path
skills/estuary-task-health/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260505.8873932, committed May 5, 2026
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- Repository stars
- 7
- License
- Apache-2.0
Run a comprehensive health check on a single Estuary task by combining catalog status, data flow stats, recent errors, and publication history. Use when diagnosing a task that seems broken, slow, or stuck. Use when user says "is my task healthy", "something seems wrong", "check my capture", "check my materialization", "why is data not flowing", "task health check", "diagnose my task", or "what's wrong with my pipeline".
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
# estuary-task-health - Single Task Health Check
Run four checks against a single task and synthesize a verdict. Covers control-plane state, data flow, recent errors, and recent spec changes.
**Applies to**: captures, materializations, derivations
## Step 0: Get the Task Name
If the user hasn't provided a full task name, find it:
```bash
flowctl catalog list --prefix <tenant>/ | grep -E "capture|materialize|derivation"
```
## Step 1: Control-Plane Status
Is the task running at all?
```bash
flowctl catalog status <task> -o json | jq '{
status: .status.type,
summary: .status.summary,
recent_failures: .status.controller.activation.recentFailureCount,
last_failure_error: (.status.controller.activation.lastFailure.fields.error // .status.controller.activation.lastFailure.message // null)
}'
```
**Note**: `last_failure_error` shows the raw error string, which is much more readable than the full `lastFailure` object. For schema validation failures the full object includes the entire failing document — use `.fields.error` to avoid walls of JSON.
| Result | Meaning |
|--------|---------|
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How to install
mdr add estuary/agent-skills/estuary-task-health@sha256:bc3957def985ed9fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260505.8873932, 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 1 version of this file, committed on May 5, 2026.
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Source
estuary/agent-skills · 7 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vcpwjrdo6apjlgzk GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=estuary/agent-skills/estuary-task-health GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bc3957def985ed9f693ce5f95ea063e267aa2f58332858de61444c1e4e4a14b9
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