build-triage

build-triage is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Zfinix/aster. It costs 36 tokens per session (404 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for quickly narrowing down build, test, and compiler failures. It focuses on the first meaningful error, bounded output, and checking smaller parts of a project when a full command is too slow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract the first compiler error, inspect the final test verdict, check one package or test, and label build and test output.
Why use it?
It keeps cascading errors and noisy logs from obscuring the real failure. It also avoids treating a successful shell pipeline or a timeout as proof that the work succeeded.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to extract the first compiler error, inspect the final test verdict, check one package or test, and label build and test output.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zfinix/aster/build-triage
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 Zfinix/aster --skill build-triage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zfinix/aster

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 404 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 $0.00036 $0.00404
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00162
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00040

Measured 9d ago against content hash 60250801a97c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-triage 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 9d 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.

crates/aster-skills/builtins/internal/build-triage/SKILL.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Build triage

  1. Fix the first error, not the last. Everything after the first error is usually cascade. cargo build 2>&1 | grep -m1 -B1 -A6 "^error".
  2. Exit code 0 can still be a failure. The exit code of a pipeline belongs to its last stage: cargo build 2>&1 | tail -3 reports tail's success. Trust the output text (error[, FAILED, panicked) over the code.
  3. Bound the output. | tail -20 for verdicts (test runners put the verdict last), | head -30 for first errors, --stat for diffs. Never dump a full build log.
  4. Never escalate a timeout. A command that timed out will time out again with a bigger budget. The exception is work that is long by nature (an eval, a full suite): run it with background:true, see long-running-work. Kill leftovers (pkill -f cargo), then narrow: one package, one test, one file. cargo check -p one-crate beats a 10 minute workspace build.
  5. Label pipeline stages so partial output says where it died: echo "=== build ===" && cargo check 2>&1 | tail -3 && echo "=== test ===" && cargo test 2>&1 | tail -5
  6. Filter noise to signal. A hundred identical warnings hide one error: 2>&1 | grep -E "^(error|FAILED|thread)" | head -10.
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. 9d ago Changed · +1 lines 60250801a97c
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 24 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A ffbde263a441

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build-triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository Zfinix/aster (133 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 404 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 2026-08-30.

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