Error Recovery Patterns Skill
OfficialRobust error handling for gh-aw workflows.
Software Engineering#timeouts#error-recovery#backoff#circuit-breaker#retry-patterns#gh-aw#debug-logging
Authorgithub
Version1.0.0
Installs0
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What problem does it solve?
This skill provides comprehensive guidance on error handling patterns, recovery strategies, and debugging techniques in GitHub Agentic Workflows (gh-aw).
Core Features & Use Cases
- Circuit Breaker Pattern: maximum retry limits, exponential backoff, and fail-fast on non-transient errors
- Installation Failure Recovery: recovery for npm/pip installations, registry mirroring, docker image pulls
- API Timeout & Rate Limit Handling: GitHub API rate limit detection, transient error classification, and configurable retries
- Debug Logging for Recovery: structured logging, category naming conventions, and zero-overhead logging when disabled
- Error Categorization & Safety: transient vs non-transient error classification and safe-outputs guidance
Quick Start
Use this skill to design and validate robust error-recovery strategies for gh-aw workflows; reference the included guidance and sample patterns to implement resilient behavior in your projects.
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