failure-triage SKILL.md skillA

This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.

failure-triage from yeaight7/agent-powerups is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add yeaight7/agent-powerups/failure-triage@git:20260605.869170c

Pins git:20260605.869170c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
yeaight7/agent-powerups
Path
plugins/debugging-diagnostics/skills/failure-triage/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20260605.869170c, committed Jun 5, 2026
First version recorded
May 2, 2026
Size
2,478 bytes
Repository stars
8
License
Apache-2.0

Use when confronted with an unknown failure in CI or production, before committing to a deep debugging approach.

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

## Purpose

Before diving deep into a stack trace or spending hours reproducing a bug, triage it to determine the blast radius, subsystem, and debugging approach. Do not start writing fixes until you have explicitly stated your triage hypothesis and confirmed the category.

## When to Use

- A CI job or production system is failing and the cause is unknown
- A bug report arrives without a clear owner or subsystem
- Before choosing between deep debugging, bisecting, or reproduction work

## Inputs

- The failure signal: stack trace, CI log excerpt, or error report
- The repo, for recent-change inspection

## Workflow

1. **Categorize the failure:**
   - **Syntax/Build error** — fails before running
   - **Logic error** — runs, but produces wrong output
   - **Infrastructure/Environment error** — network timeout, missing DB table
   - **Flaky/Non-deterministic error** — fails sometimes

2. **Locate the origin.** Scan the stack trace. Ignore framework/library internals. Find the highest frame that belongs to the *first-party application code*:

   ```bash
   # surface first-party frames (adjust the path filter to the repo layout)
   grep -n "src/" stacktrace.txt | head -20
   ```
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add yeaight7/agent-powerups/failure-triage@sha256:93e284c240f87567

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260605.869170c, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_zzuopa5rp5iova7c.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_zzuopa5rp5iova7c)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between May 2, 2026 and Jun 5, 2026, about one every 17 days. Its first recorded version is graded B and its latest A.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260605.869170c latest2026-06-05 869170c 2,478 BA view · diff
git:20260502.4fd624f2026-05-02 4fd624f 1,249 BA view · diff
git:20260502.00fc24a2026-05-02 00fc24a 135 BB view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2478 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
  • 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

Source

GitHub

yeaight7/agent-powerups · 8 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-27 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zzuopa5rp5iova7c
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yeaight7/agent-powerups/failure-triage
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/93e284c240f87567e5086c5e4bfeb6ed3c6f9c9d52efddf87079bf1ae718a30d

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.

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