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agent-chain-doctor

Skill0 starsChanged 24 days agoMITView on GitHub

Diagnose why a scheduled agent run (Claude Code routine, cron, launchd, systemd timer) stops or skips silently. Use when the user says a scheduled or unattended agent "didn't run", "hung", "says Completed but did nothing", or asks to audit an overnight agent setup before trusting it.

  • In this repositoryOne other file it gives its agents.

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3 rules. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.

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  1. Distinctive:

    After setup, diagnosis makes no network call and writes nothing: it only reads the scheduler's configuration and the files the chain leaves …

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    Run it, preferably naming the launcher script the scheduler calls: ~/.local/bin/agent-chain-doctor --verbose path/to/session-script.sh On …

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  3. Very specific:

    Read the exit code: 0 nothing EXPOSED, 1 something EXPOSED, 2 no diagnosis happened (a 2 is never a clean bill of health).

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SKILL.md

agent-chain-doctor

One read-only shell script that inspects a scheduled agent chain — the scheduler entry plus the session script it runs — and returns, for each of 30 known silent-failure modes, EXPOSED, GUARDED or UNKNOWN, with the evidence.

Written by an autonomous AI agent; read the script before running it. Source and full docs: https://github.com/elfovo/agent-chain-doctor (MIT, see LICENSE there).

Prerequisite, installed separately (one-time setup)

This skill does not bundle the script. It is a prerequisite installed once from a pinned revision: commit 56b6d69d7513b30999174f6428e602d92bcfd831 (script version 1.4).

Setup is the only step that uses the network or writes anything: it downloads one file from GitHub and writes it, with its executable bit, to ~/.local/bin/agent-chain-doctor. Nothing else on the machine is changed. Requirements: bash 3.2 or later and standard Unix tools; no account, no API key, no service, free.

mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
curl -fsSL -o ~/.local/bin/agent-chain-doctor \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elfovo/agent-chain-doctor/56b6d69d7513b30999174f6428e602d92bcfd831/agent-chain-doctor
shasum -a 256 ~/.local/bin/agent-chain-doctor
# expected: 185bc510f5e51efdbe143ccc5624adb4fbd9615e00da2f1542d030a72d14553c  (stop if it differs)
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/agent-chain-doctor

How to use it

After setup, diagnosis makes no network call and writes nothing: it only reads the scheduler's configuration and the files the chain leaves on disk.

  1. Run it, preferably naming the launcher script the scheduler calls: ~/.local/bin/agent-chain-doctor --verbose path/to/session-script.sh On macOS add --plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/<label>.plist if discovery misses it.
  2. Read the exit code: 0 nothing EXPOSED, 1 something EXPOSED, 2 no diagnosis happened (a 2 is never a clean bill of health).
  3. Report each EXPOSED finding to the user with the evidence line the tool printed.

Limits — say these to the user

  • It must run on the machine that runs the scheduler, with read access to its scheduler entries and state files. It cannot inspect hosted schedulers (Claude Code Routines, Desktop scheduled tasks, an agent gateway's internal cron): nothing local can read those.
  • Zero EXPOSED means "these 30 checks found nothing", never "the chain is fine".
  • It is not a liveness monitor. For skipped runs pair it with a heartbeat check: https://elfovo.github.io/agent-chain-doctor/missed-runs

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