report-error

An error-reporting command that detects, categorises, and records problems in a structured form for automated handling. It can also send a report to a related repository in the same parent folder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to report an error from the current repository or a sibling repository, optionally choosing whether to wait and how long to check for a resolution.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents a consistent way to pass errors to an automated resolver and, by default, wait for the reported problem to be handled.

Skill for Claude CodeCodexCursor

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/markmhendrickson/foundation/report-error
Any agent
npx skills add markmhendrickson/foundation --skill report-error
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markmhendrickson/foundation

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.

Per session 9 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 12,428 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin 98% 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 $0.00009 $0.12428
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.06214
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.02486
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.01243

Measured yesterday against content hash de522174363e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

report-error scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

const currentRepoPath = execSync('git rev-parse --show-toplevel').toString().trim();
Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to report-error — 2 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.

.cursor/skills/report-error/SKILL.md · 1,502 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,502 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Report Error Command

Purpose

Enable agents to report errors for automated resolution by Cursor Cloud Agent. This command detects, classifies, and documents errors in a structured format for systematic resolution.

Supports cross-repo reporting: Report errors to sibling repositories (repos sharing the same parent directory) by passing the target repo name.

Command Usage

/report_error [target-repo-name] [--no-wait] [--timeout SECONDS] [--poll-interval SECONDS]

Parameters:

  • target-repo-name (optional): Name of sibling repository to report error to
    • Must be a sibling repository (shares same parent directory)
    • Example: If current repo is /Users/user/Projects/personal, target neotoma resolves to /Users/user/Projects/neotoma
    • If omitted: Auto-detect target repository based on error origin (see Auto-Detection below)
  • --no-wait (optional): Disable wait-for-resolution mode (default: wait mode is enabled)
  • --timeout SECONDS (optional): Maximum time to wait for resolution (default: 300 seconds / 5 minutes)
  • --poll-interval SECONDS (optional): How often to check error status (default: 5 seconds)

Default Behavior:

  • Wait mode is enabled by default - Agent will monitor error status until resolved or timeout
  • Auto-detection is enabled - If target-repo-name is not provided, automatically detect target repository based on error origin

Examples:

# Auto-detect target repo and wait for resolution (default behavior)
/report_error

# Explicitly specify target repo (auto-detection disabled)
/report_error neotoma

# Disable wait mode (report and continue immediately)
/report_error --no-wait

# Custom timeout (10 minutes, default is 5 minutes)
/report_error --timeout 600

# Custom poll interval (check every 2 seconds, default is 5 seconds)
/report_error --poll-interval 2

# Explicit target repo with custom timeout
/report_error neotoma --timeout 600

When to Use

Use this command when you encounter:

  • Build errors (TypeScript compilation, module resolution)
  • Runtime errors (MCP server errors, API failures, database errors)
  • Test failures
  • Dependency issues (missing modules, version conflicts)
  • Configuration errors (missing env vars, invalid config)

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,502 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. yesterday First seen · 1,502 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A de522174363e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

report-error is a skill published in the GitHub repository markmhendrickson/foundation (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 12,428 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). It is 98% identical to report-error, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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