mav-claude-code-recovery

mav-claude-code-recovery is a skill for Claude Code from thermiteau/maverick. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,129 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of patterns for making Claude Code workflows recover after crashes, failed commands, or failed helper agents. It covers saved progress, durable work artifacts, diagnosis, verification, and failure isolation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or reviewing workflows that must resume after failure, save progress between phases, publish work artifacts early, or retry tasks based on diagnosis.
Why use it?
It prevents a failed workflow from losing its place or leaving its recorded state inconsistent with the actual work. It also keeps one helper agent's failure from disrupting the main session.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the maverick plugin — 41 skills, 5 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when designing or reviewing workflows that must resume after failure, save progress between phases, publish work artifacts early, or retry tasks based on diagnosis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thermiteau/maverick/mav-claude-code-recovery
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add thermiteau/maverick --skill mav-claude-code-recovery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thermiteau/maverick

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install maverick, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills, 5 agents, 5 hooks.

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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 1,129 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 $0.00043 $0.01129
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00564
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00226
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00113

Measured 11d ago against content hash 5f6fde071741, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mav-claude-code-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 11d 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/mav-claude-code-recovery/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code Error Handling and Recovery

Patterns for making Claude Code workflows resilient to failures. This covers Claude Code's own recovery mechanisms, not error handling in generated application code.

Principles

  1. Persist state early and often — checkpoint progress after each phase so work can be resumed
  2. Post artefacts immediately — designs, plans, and status updates go to GitHub as soon as they are ready, not at the end
  3. Diagnose before retrying — when something fails, understand why before trying again
  4. Verify before continuing — on resume, confirm recorded state matches reality
  5. Isolate failures — subagent failures stay in the subagent; fix via a new subagent, not by polluting the main session

State Persistence

The maverick-task-progress marker on the GitHub issue is the single state surface for issue-driven work (see mav-github-issue-workflow): phase, branch, and artefact comment ids, written via uv run maverick task-progress set after each milestone completes — never before. Writing after completion means the marker always reflects a consistent, completed milestone: if a failure occurs mid-phase, the marker points at the last completed phase and the incomplete phase re-executes from scratch.

Local files (worktrees, shortlists, diffs) are derivable caches. When a local artefact and GitHub disagree, GitHub wins.

Artefact Durability

Post artefacts to GitHub immediately after they are produced, via uv run maverick issue comment post --kind <design|plan|tasks|completion>.

Artefact When
Solution design Immediately after design is approved/produced
Implementation plan Immediately after plan is approved/produced
Completion summary After all steps pass verification
Blocking questions When blocked and unable to resolve

Batching artefacts to the end means a crash loses all intermediate work, the human has no visibility, and recovery re-does the design/planning.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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. 11d ago First seen · 109 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 5f6fde071741

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mav-claude-code-recovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository thermiteau/maverick (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,129 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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