recover

recover is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jsmastery-pro/jsm-agent-skill. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,568 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A troubleshooting procedure for AI-assisted software development that first identifies what kind of failure has occurred. It distinguishes a specific broken feature from problems caused by repeated unsuccessful fixes or a broader design issue.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a build or code change goes wrong, especially after several attempted fixes. It helps decide whether to make a targeted correction, reset part of the work, or rethink the approach.
Why use it?
Repeatedly asking for fixes can make a coding session longer and the code less reliable. Classifying the failure first helps choose an appropriate response instead of applying random changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

not rated 173repo +13 2mo ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: pass 43 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it when a build or code change goes wrong, especially after several attempted fixes. It helps decide whether to make a targeted correction, reset part of the work, or rethink the approach.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jsmastery-pro/jsm-agent-skill/recover
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 jsmastery-pro/jsm-agent-skill --skill recover
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jsmastery-pro/jsm-agent-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,568 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 26 Jul 2026
  • Snyk warn 26 Jul 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 $0.00043 $0.01568
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00784
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00314
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00157

Measured 10d ago against content hash 192f9a6a621c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recover 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/recover/SKILL.md · 254 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 254 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Not every problem is a bug. Not every bug needs debugging.

When something goes wrong with AI-assisted development, the instinct is to keep prompting — describe the problem, ask for a fix, get another broken version, describe that problem, ask for another fix. The session gets longer. The context gets polluted. The code gets worse.

The problem is not the code. The problem is not knowing what type of failure you are dealing with.

This skill diagnoses the failure first. Then it prescribes the right response. Those are two separate steps and they cannot be swapped.


Step 1 — Describe What Went Wrong

The developer describes the problem. The skill listens before doing anything else.

Ask:

Describe what is wrong. Be specific:
- What did you expect to happen?
- What happened instead?
- How many times have you tried to fix it already?

Read the answer carefully. The number of fix attempts is important — it tells you whether this is a fresh problem or a session that has already gone wrong.


Step 2 — Identify the Failure Mode

Based on the description, determine which of three failure modes this is.

Failure Mode 1 — A specific thing is broken

Signs:

  • The problem is isolated — one component, one function, one route
  • The rest of the project works correctly
  • This is the first or second attempt at fixing it
  • The error message or wrong behaviour is clear and specific

What it means: This is a normal bug. It has a root cause that can be found and fixed precisely.

Response: Targeted fix — go to Step 3A.


Failure Mode 2 — The session has gone wrong

Signs:

  • Multiple fix attempts have made things worse or created new problems
  • The code has become tangled — fixes are patching fixes
  • Context in this session is full of failed attempts
  • It is no longer clear what the original problem was

What it means: The session is polluted. More prompting will not help — it will compound the damage. The feature needs to be rebuilt in a clean context, not patched further.

Read the full file on GitHub · 254 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. 10d ago First seen · 254 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 192f9a6a621c

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recover is a skill published in the GitHub repository jsmastery-pro/jsm-agent-skill (173 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,568 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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