debugging-ci-failures

debugging-ci-failures is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from amplifthq/opentag. It costs 189 tokens per session (4,399 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of debugging-ci-failures, MIT.

A troubleshooting guide for failed GitHub Actions checks in PostHog. GitHub Actions runs automated checks such as tests and builds when code changes are submitted.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking whether CI is currently failing, finding the meaningful failure in a run, classifying its cause, and deciding when to hand off flaky-test or history investigation.
Why use it?
It helps separate the first real failure from follow-on errors and distinguish a branch-specific problem from a broader CI problem. CI means automated checks run during development.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Checking whether CI is currently failing, finding the meaningful failure in a run, classifying its cause, and deciding when to hand off flaky-test or history investigation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/amplifthq/opentag/debugging-ci-failures
About the project

OpenTag connects Slack with coding agents running on a computer controlled by the user, so channel mentions can queue work and return status, decisions, and evidence in the same thread. It is for engineering teams that want to run agents such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor against local checkouts through the Agent Client Protocol.

amplifthq/opentag · 0 stars · on GitHub · openmeld.ai

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add amplifthq/opentag --skill debugging-ci-failures
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amplifthq/opentag

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 189 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,399 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 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00189 $0.04399
Opus 5.5 $0.00076 $0.01760
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00038 $0.00880
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00440

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1031d9cbbc41, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debugging-ci-failures 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 2d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to debugging-ci-failures — 91 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/debugging-ci-failures/SKILL.md · 325 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 325 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Debugging PostHog CI failures

Before you propose a change to CI, check things already tried for the idea. It records what was measured, and why some good-sounding changes were reverted or rejected.

Find the first meaningful failure, classify it, reproduce the smallest useful case locally when appropriate, and report the result. Avoid public-visible or irreversible actions unless the user explicitly asks.

Always start with the hogli ci:insights digest. It aggregates across runs and branches, which gh cannot do cheaply, and tells you whether a failure is likely trunk-borne, gate-only, or isolated to a small set of branches. gh is authoritative for one run's current state and attribution. Use the digest to decide what to inspect; use gh to confirm whose failure it is and exactly what failed in a given run.

This skill triages and classifies. Once a failure is confirmed flaky, hand off to the fixing-flaky-tests skill, which owns local reproduction, root-cause fixing, and N-run validation. For "who broke master" — the culprit commit and the commit that fixed it — hand off to the investigating-ci-failures skill, which owns the green/red boundary analysis. For aggregate pipeline health (is CI getting slower, which workflow is the long pole, how long PRs take to merge), read diagnosing-ci-and-merge-bottlenecks. Both are product skills under products/engineering_analytics/skills/, not invocable here: read the SKILL.md at that path.

Rule out a platform outage first

GitHub Actions goes down often enough that it belongs before any log reading, and a platform incident makes every other signal a symptom. It costs two page loads: https://www.githubstatus.com/ for GitHub, https://status.depot.dev/ for the runners. Check them whenever failures are broad — several workflows at once, a burst of runs failing together, jobs dying before Checkout, or anything red across unrelated PRs.

Report an outage as an outage, name the component, and stop recommending reruns.

Read the full file on GitHub · 325 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 325 lines · 189 tokens per session scan A 1031d9cbbc41

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debugging-ci-failures is a skill published in the GitHub repository amplifthq/opentag (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 189 tokens to every session and 4,399 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to debugging-ci-failures, differing in 91 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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