debugging-agent-runs SKILL.md skillA
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debugging-agent-runs from cristhianzl/claude-skills-czl is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cristhianzl/claude-skills-czl/debugging-agent-runs@git:20260625.6520aecPins git:20260625.6520aec in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cristhianzl/claude-skills-czl
- Path
configs/agnostic/skills/debugging-agent-runs/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260625.6520aec, committed Jun 25, 2026
- Size
- 3,328 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Recover when the AGENT itself is stuck — looping, repeating the same failed action, burning tokens/budget, overflowing context, drifting from the goal, or acting on stale state. Use when a run isn't converging and reworded retries aren't helping. This is a workflow you follow, not a hidden runtime that auto-heals. For bugs in the product code use fixing-bugs.
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
# Debugging agent runs When the problem is the **run**, not the code: the agent keeps trying variations of the same thing, talks itself in circles, or acts on what it remembers instead of what's true. This skill is a recovery loop to break that. Be honest: it's a discipline you apply — it can't magically fix a stuck process. ## Read first (always) List `learnings/` and read anything relevant — past failure modes specific to this project belong there. ## Recognize the failure mode | Symptom | Likely cause | |---|---| | Same action retried with slightly reworded prompts | Loop / no new information between attempts | | Output truncated, "forgetting" earlier context | Context overflow → compact or restart with a tighter scope | | Repeated 429 / timeouts | Rate limit → back off, batch, slow down | | Edits land on the wrong branch/files; conflicts | Branch / diff drift → re-verify git state | | Confident claims that don't match reality | Stale state → trusting memory over the world | | Scope keeps widening while nothing lands | Scope creep → shrink to one verifiable thing | ## The recovery loop Run these **in order** — most stuck runs are fixed by step 1–2: …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cristhianzl/claude-skills-czl/debugging-agent-runs@sha256:01112788cd978412The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260625.6520aec, 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_ymnbigsgd325drgr)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 25, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
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- 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
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
cristhianzl/claude-skills-czl · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ymnbigsgd325drgr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cristhianzl/claude-skills-czl/debugging-agent-runs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/01112788cd978412caf727b6c911b127fef396b2d5d8deda9bf16e4e42dd3d67
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.
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