identify-pipeline-error

identify-pipeline-error is a skill for Claude Code from orchestra-hq/orchestra-skills. It costs 210 tokens per session (3,017 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A first-step investigator for failed Orchestra data pipelines. It identifies the broken task and classifies the cause, then sends the work to a separate repair workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a pipeline failed or needs explanation, retrying, or debugging, including when the user provides a run URL or identifier.
Why use it?
It prevents a general troubleshooting request from turning into an unsupported code change. It gives the next step a specific run, task, and failure category to work from.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the orchestra plugin — 19 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when a pipeline failed or needs explanation, retrying, or debugging, including when the user provides a run URL or identifier.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/orchestra-hq/orchestra-skills/identify-pipeline-error
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 orchestra-hq/orchestra-skills --skill identify-pipeline-error
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/orchestra-hq/orchestra-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install orchestra, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 210 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,017 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 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 $0.00210 $0.03017
Opus 5.5 $0.00084 $0.01207
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00042 $0.00603
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00302

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c4e3b28311be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

identify-pipeline-error 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 1mo 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/orchestra/skills/identify-pipeline-error/SKILL.md · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Identify Pipeline Error

The router. Identify which task broke and why, then route to the skill that fixes it. This skill draws a clean line: it identifies and classifies; the fix-* skills fix. Do not attempt code repairs, schema changes, or branch validation here — that is the fixer's job.

Narrate each step briefly, like a data engineer. Never print secrets/tokens.

0. Access

MCP is preferred but optional. If the Orchestra MCP tools aren't present, use the public REST API with $ORCHESTRA_API_KEY (check the env — it's often already set). If neither MCP nor a key is available, point the user at the Orchestra MCP setup docs (https://docs.getorchestra.io/docs/mcp) or ask for an API key, then stop.

  • MCP, composite: whats_broken, diagnose, pipeline_context — each answers a whole step below in one call. Prefer them (see §1a).
  • MCP, granular: list_pipeline_runs, list_task_runs, list_operations, list_task_run_logs, download_task_run_log, list_task_run_artifacts, list_pipelines — see ../../references/orchestra/mcp/tools-quick-ref.md.
  • REST base: https://app.getorchestra.io/api/engine/public — header Authorization: Bearer $ORCHESTRA_API_KEY.

If a call comes back 403, the workspace does not have the Metadata API enabled. Say so and ask the user to have a workspace admin enable it — do not retry or fall back to guessing.

1a. The fast path — two calls, when the composite tools are present

If whats_broken and diagnose are available, they collapse Steps 1-3 and you should reach for them first. Steps 1-3 remain the fallback for a client without them, or for anything they do not cover.

You have Call You get
Nothing — "what's broken?" whats_broken() Every failing run in the last 24h, each with its failed tasks, messages and anomalies. Widen with window_hours, narrow with environment.
A pipeline run ID or URL whats_broken(), then pick the run by ID The same digest; the run you want is in it if it failed inside the window
A task run ID diagnose(task_run_id) Parameters, upstream statuses, log tail, artifact names
A pipeline name, alias or ID pipeline_context(alias) Definition, integrations, recent outcomes, duration baseline

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 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. 1mo ago Changed · +28 lines c4e3b28311be
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 173 lines · 210 tokens per session scan A da71f9498d60

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identify-pipeline-error is a skill published in the GitHub repository orchestra-hq/orchestra-skills (9 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 210 tokens to every session and 3,017 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-09.

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