isolate-the-specific-failure-mode-before-proposing-a-fix

isolate-the-specific-failure-mode-before-proposing-a-fix is a skill for OpenCode from ZaxbyHub/opencode-swarm. It costs 24 tokens per session (371 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A debugging procedure for separating a test failure into its individual causes before changing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when several failures appear together and you need to diagnose and fix them one at a time.
Why use it?
It avoids combining unrelated fixes and makes each change address a specific root cause.

Skill for OpenCode

Written for OpenCode: installed under .opencode/. Also seen: mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it when several failures appear together and you need to diagnose and fix them one at a time.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zaxbyhub/opencode-swarm/isolate-the-specific-failure-mode-before-proposing-a-fix
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ZaxbyHub/opencode-swarm --skill isolate-the-specific-failure-mode-before-proposing-a-fix
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ZaxbyHub/opencode-swarm

Made for: OpenCode.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 371 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 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 $0.00024 $0.00371
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00148
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00037

Measured 14d ago against content hash f8ba2c18256b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

isolate-the-specific-failure-mode-before-proposing-a-fix 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 14d 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.

.opencode/skills/generated/isolate-the-specific-failure-mode-before-proposing-a-fix/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

isolate the specific failure mode before proposing a fix

Trigger

  • (no explicit trigger metadata; cluster derived from category/tags)

Required Procedure

  • isolate the specific failure mode before proposing a fix
  • verify each fix addresses exactly one root cause

Forbidden Shortcuts

  • (none recorded)

Delegation Template

When delegating a task affected by this skill, include:

SKILLS: file:.opencode/skills/generated/isolate-the-specific-failure-mode-before-proposing-a-fix/SKILL.md

Reviewer Checks

  • Verify each required action above appears in the diff.

Test Engineer Checks

  • Add or update tests covering the trigger condition and the forbidden shortcut.

Source Knowledge IDs

  • a704dc0a-e0a1-42c3-a43e-b0eff135f657 — When a test fails, diagnose each failure mode separately and apply targeted fixes — do not combine unrelated root causes into a single patch.
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. 14d ago Changed · -1 lines f8ba2c18256b
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 51 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A c3d2573a4180

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isolate-the-specific-failure-mode-before-proposing-a-fix is a skill published in the GitHub repository ZaxbyHub/opencode-swarm (513 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 371 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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