troubleshooting-application-failures

troubleshooting-application-failures is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. It costs 49 tokens per session (248 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An AWS troubleshooting guide that examines CloudWatch Logs, AWS's service for storing application logs, to find errors and their likely causes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an application is failing and you need to find relevant log groups, search for error patterns, and investigate root causes.
Why use it?
It helps turn scattered log messages and stack traces into a diagnosis and a prioritized list of fixes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when an application is failing and you need to find relevant log groups, search for error patterns, and investigate root causes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/troubleshooting-application-failures
About the project

Agent Toolkit for AWS is a collection of AWS-supported MCP servers, skills, plugins, commands, and hooks that help AI coding agents build, deploy, and manage applications on AWS. It is used by developers working with AWS services through agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Kiro. The catalogue entries are the toolkit's own agent extensions for AWS development and operations.

aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws · 2,550 stars · on GitHub

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 aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill troubleshooting-application-failures
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 248 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 17 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 17 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00049 $0.00248
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00124
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00025

Measured 4d ago against content hash 65e66a1dfd80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

troubleshooting-application-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 4d 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/specialized-skills/operations-skills/troubleshooting-application-failures/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Application Failure Troubleshooting

Overview

Domain expertise for diagnosing application failures through CloudWatch log analysis. Discovers relevant log groups, searches for error patterns and stack traces, performs root cause analysis, and generates prioritized remediation recommendations.

Troubleshoot a failing application

To diagnose and resolve application failures using CloudWatch logs, follow the procedure exactly. See Application failure troubleshooting procedure.

Troubleshooting

No log groups found

Ask the user for specific log group names. Common patterns: /aws/lambda/function-name, /aws/apigateway/api-name, or custom application log groups.

Access denied errors

Verify AWS credentials have logs:DescribeLogGroups, logs:DescribeLogStreams, logs:StartQuery, and logs:GetQueryResults permissions.

Query timeouts

Reduce the time window or limit results. Large log groups may require multiple smaller queries.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 4d ago First seen · 35 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 65e66a1dfd80

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troubleshooting-application-failures is a skill published in the GitHub repository aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (2,550 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 248 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 2026-09-03.

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