When a step fails during an agentic task, classify the error (transient, configuration, logic, or permanent), apply the right recovery strategy, and escalate to the user when all strategies are exhausted. Triggers on error messages, exceptions, tracebacks, "failed", "not working", "retry", or when 2 consecutive steps fail.
Quickly install error-recovery AI skill to your development environment via command line
Source: fatih-developer/fth-skills.
When an error occurs, stop, think, and try the right recovery strategy. No blind retries — understand the error signal first, then act.
Core principle: Every error carries a signal. Read the signal first, then act.
Classify every error into one of 4 categories — the recovery strategy depends on the category:
When a step fails during an agentic task, classify the error (transient, configuration, logic, or permanent), apply the right recovery strategy, and escalate to the user when all strategies are exhausted. Triggers on error messages, exceptions, tracebacks, "failed", "not working", "retry", or when 2 consecutive steps fail. Source: fatih-developer/fth-skills.
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npx skills add https://github.com/fatih-developer/fth-skills --skill error-recoveryWhen a step fails during an agentic task, classify the error (transient, configuration, logic, or permanent), apply the right recovery strategy, and escalate to the user when all strategies are exhausted. Triggers on error messages, exceptions, tracebacks, "failed", "not working", "retry", or when 2 consecutive steps fail. Source: fatih-developer/fth-skills.
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/fatih-developer/fth-skills --skill error-recovery Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenClaw
https://github.com/fatih-developer/fth-skills