async-worker-recovery

async-worker-recovery is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from baphuongna/pi-crew. It costs 35 tokens per session (625 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A troubleshooting guide for background workers, which are processes that perform jobs outside the main application. It covers heartbeats, interrupted runs, stale status, crashes, and dead-letter records, which are saved records of work that could not be delivered or completed normally.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when debugging stuck or crashed asynchronous runs, checking worker heartbeats, reconciling stale processes, reviewing retry history, or investigating dead-letter entries.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish a genuinely stuck job from an old warning or a job that later finished. It also provides rules for checking process health and repairing run state safely.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it when debugging stuck or crashed asynchronous runs, checking worker heartbeats, reconciling stale processes, reviewing retry history, or investigating dead-letter entries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/baphuongna/pi-crew/async-worker-recovery
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add baphuongna/pi-crew --skill async-worker-recovery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/baphuongna/pi-crew

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 625 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 58
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00035 $0.00625
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00313
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00063

Measured 12d ago against content hash cfd4a0ffb495, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

async-worker-recovery 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 12d 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/async-worker-recovery/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

async-worker-recovery

Use this skill when a pi-crew run is stuck, stale, interrupted, or has dead workers.

Source patterns distilled

  • pi-subagents async patterns: detached runner, status files, result watcher, stale PID reconciler
  • pi-crew runtime: src/runtime/background-runner.ts, async-runner.ts, heartbeat-watcher.ts, worker-heartbeat.ts, crash-recovery.ts, stale-reconciler.ts, deadletter.ts, delivery-coordinator.ts
  • UI recovery controls: src/ui/run-dashboard.ts, src/ui/dashboard-panes/health-pane.ts, src/ui/run-action-dispatcher.ts

Rules

  • Distinguish historical dead-heartbeat events from current active failures. Check manifest/task status and event timestamps.
  • Heartbeat warnings should only apply to currently running/waiting work, never terminal runs/tasks.
  • Stale reconciliation order: result/terminal evidence → PID liveness → stale threshold/active evidence.
  • Reconcile state under run lock and re-read inside the lock before repair.
  • Deadletter entries are evidence, not automatic proof of permanent failure; inspect attempts and later completion events.
  • For background runs, verify PID liveness and background log before declaring stuck.
  • Session delivery should queue while inactive and flush only to the current generation/session.
  • Do not poll in sleep loops waiting for async completion if the system has a watcher/result notification path.

Operator checklist

  1. Load manifest/tasks and recent events.
  2. Check manifest.async.pid and process liveness.
  3. Check heartbeat lastSeenAt, progress lastActivityAt, and terminal status.
  4. Inspect deadletter and diagnostic report.
  5. Choose recovery: resume, retry, kill stale, diagnostic, or no-op historical notification.

Enforcement — Worker Recovery Gate

Before taking recovery action, verify:

  • Run status is not terminal (completed/failed/cancelled)
  • Heartbeat is genuinely stale (not just delayed polling)
  • PID is dead or stale threshold exceeded
  • Recovery action matches run state (resume vs retry vs kill)
  • Session generation matches before state modification

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 62 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A cfd4a0ffb495

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async-worker-recovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository baphuongna/pi-crew (52 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 625 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 2026-08-30.

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