gha-failure-taxonomy SKILL.md skillA
gha-failure-taxonomy from sigistry/marketplace is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add sigistry/marketplace/gha-failure-taxonomy@git:20260826.571bc2fPins git:20260826.571bc2f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- sigistry/marketplace
- Path
plugins/ci-incident-medic/skills/gha-failure-taxonomy/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260826.571bc2f, committed Aug 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 8, 2026
- Size
- 3,464 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
This skill should be used when the user mentions "github actions failing", "CI failure", "workflow failed", "actions permission denied", "secret not found", "matrix", "cache miss", "GITHUB_TOKEN", "pipeline red", or is diagnosing a red GitHub Actions run. It provides a taxonomy of failure classes with log signals, root causes, and exact YAML fixes.
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
# GitHub Actions Failure Taxonomy ## Purpose A consistent way to classify a failing (or non-running) GitHub Actions workflow into one root-cause class, so triage goes straight from a log line to the exact YAML fix instead of trial-and-error re-runs. This is domain knowledge about how Actions actually breaks, not generic YAML advice. ## First split: did it FAIL or never RUN? - **Never ran** (no run appears, or the job count is 0): almost always the `on:` trigger, `paths`/`paths-ignore`, `branches`/`tags` filter, or a `matrix` that expanded to nothing. Do not look for a step error. - **Ran and failed**: anchor on the platform's error string, then classify below. ## Classification matrix | Class | Fastest log signal | Root cause | Fix direction | |-------|--------------------|-----------|---------------| | Permissions / token scope | `Resource not accessible by integration`, HTTP 403 | `GITHUB_TOKEN` lacks a scope | add least-privilege `permissions:` | | Missing / misnamed secret | `secret ... not found`, empty var, auth 401 | secret undefined, wrong name, or wrong scope (repo vs env) | define/rename secret; check environment | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add sigistry/marketplace/gha-failure-taxonomy@sha256:f7098665d57109e7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260826.571bc2f, 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_yo65lbh6gbovsgp6)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 8, 2026 and Aug 26, 2026, about one every 24 days.
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| git:20260826.571bc2f latest | 2026-08-26 | 571bc2f | 3,464 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260715.fcd8714 | 2026-07-15 | fcd8714 | 3,475 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260708.c0884a9 | 2026-07-08 | c0884a9 | 3,487 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 (3464 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
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- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
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Source
sigistry/marketplace · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yo65lbh6gbovsgp6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=sigistry/marketplace/gha-failure-taxonomy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f7098665d57109e7b7c6675a5652cd1933b8c6e49555eb5b20f34f3a766282d8
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