Error Recovery
CheckedThis "Error Recovery" skill intelligently handles API errors by retrying requests, boosting reliability and preventing failed operations.
Install on your platform
Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.
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Run this in your project
terminal$ npx skills add troykelly/codex-skills --skill error-recovery -a claude-code Uses the open-source
skillsCLI and needs Node.js. Add-gto install it for your user instead of this project.
What we know about this skill
Publisher
troykelly
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Install target
Live repository
Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.
Automated safety checks
This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.
Declares what it does: passed
SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.
SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.
No undeclared network calls: passed
Makes no network calls.
Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.
No obfuscated payloads: passed
No encoded or obfuscated payloads.
No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.
No credential access: passed
Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.
Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.
No pipe-to-shell installers: passed
No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.
No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.
Pinned to a commit: passed
Scanned troykelly/codex-skills at d8fb3968e4.
The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.
- Commit
- d8fb3968e4
- Manifest
- skills/error-recovery/SKILL.md
- Scanned
- 1 file, 356 lines
About this skill
What it does
This skill helps AI agents gracefully handle and recover from errors encountered during task execution. It provides strategies to identify, log, and attempt recovery from common failure points, preventing complete task failures and improving overall robustness. The agent can retry failed steps with adjusted parameters or alternative approaches based on the error context.
When to use it
- Automated workflows: When an AI agent is automating a process (e.g., data entry, report generation) where errors are likely to occur due to external factors.
- Complex tasks: For tasks involving multiple steps or dependencies where failure in one step can cascade and halt the entire operation.
- Unreliable APIs: When interacting with third-party APIs that may experience intermittent outages or return unexpected responses.
- Data processing pipelines: To ensure data integrity and prevent pipeline interruptions when dealing with potentially corrupted or incomplete datasets.
Key capabilities
- Error identification and logging
- Retry mechanisms with configurable parameters
- Alternative approach selection based on error context
- Graceful failure handling
Example prompts
- "When you encounter an error, retry the last step up to three times."
- "If a file is not found, try searching in a different directory."
- "Log all errors with timestamps and relevant details for debugging purposes."
Tips & gotchas
This skill requires careful configuration of retry parameters and alternative approaches to avoid infinite loops or unnecessary resource consumption. Ensure the agent has sufficient permissions to perform recovery actions (e.g., creating new files, accessing different directories).