What is syndicate-heal?

A diagnostic guide for checking the health of the Syndicate pipeline, a software process that runs automated tasks. It checks Ollama, disk space, environment variables, Git state, and long-running processes, then reports suggested fixes.

Use it to inspect health problems, find processes running for too long, and get shell commands for manual remediation.

It helps identify why the pipeline is unavailable or stuck without changing the system automatically.

syndicate-heal — Skill for Claude Code by aadarshvelu

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add aadarshvelu/syndicate --skill syndicate-heal

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aadarshvelu/syndicate

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install syndicate-pipeline, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,014 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00036	$0.01014
Opus 5	$0.00018	$0.00507
Sonnet 5	$0.00007	$0.00203
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00101

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5d1bc070c5c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

syndicate-heal scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/syndicate-heal/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/syndicate-heal

You are diagnosing the syndicate pipeline. Do not auto-fix anything — your job is to report what's wrong with actionable shell commands the user can copy. The user takes the remediation step.

Step 1 — health snapshot

cd "${SYNDICATE_REPO:-$(pwd)}" && uv run python -m pipeline.cli health

Then fetch the broader status for context:

cd "${SYNDICATE_REPO:-$(pwd)}" && uv run python -m pipeline.cli status

Step 2 — check for stuck processes

Look for syndicate processes that have been alive too long (≥4h is the default cleaner threshold):

pgrep -lf 'run_syndicate\.sh|uv run syndicate|\.venv/bin/syndicate'

For each PID, get elapsed time:

ps -p <PID> -o etime=,command=

Walk through each signal in priority order and surface remediation hints:

Ollama unreachable

Symptom: health.ollama_reachable = false
Likely cause: Ollama not running, or OLLAMA_HOST=0.0.0.0 was injected by launchd (it can't be used as a client URL).
Fix: unset OLLAMA_HOST (or set to http://localhost:11434), then ollama serve if the process isn't running.

Required env var missing

Walk env_present and flag any of these false: GMAIL_USER, GMAIL_APP_PASSWORD, FEED_REPO_URL, FEED_REPO_PAT, TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN, TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID.
For the AI provider, look at env_present.AI_PROVIDER (defaults to ollama if unset) and flag the matching credential as false: ollama → OLLAMA_HOST; anthropic → ANTHROPIC_API_KEY; openai → OPENAI_API_KEY; gemini → GEMINI_API_KEY; minimax → MINIMAX_API_KEY. If EMBEDDING_PROVIDER is set and differs, also check its credential.
Fix: point them at the README's .env matrix and INSTALL.md.

Disk low

Symptom: disk_free_gb < 5
Fix: find logs/ -name '*.txt' -mtime +7 -delete (logger already does this for >7d files, but only when invoked).

Stuck syndicate processes

Symptom: pgrep shows a PID with elapsed time > 4h
Fix: bash scripts/clean_stale_runs.sh — kills processes over the 4h threshold via SIGTERM with SIGKILL fallback. Mac-only (uses macOS ps).

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

10d ago First seen · 94 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 5d1bc070c5c5

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syndicate-heal is a skill published in the GitHub repository aadarshvelu/syndicate (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,014 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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