Error recovery
Skill aden-hive/hive/core/framework/skills/_default_skills/error-recovery
Multi-Agent Harness for Production AI
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Follow a structured recovery decision tree when tool calls fail instead of blindly retrying or giving up.
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Operational Protocol: Error Recovery
When a tool call fails:
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Diagnose — classify the failure as transient (network blip, rate limit, timeout) or structural (wrong selector, missing auth, invalid schema, permission denied).
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Decide:
- Transient → retry once.
- Structural + fixable → fix the input and retry.
- Structural + unfixable → record the failure and move to the next item.
- Blocking all progress → escalate.
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Adapt — if the same tool has failed {{max_retries_per_tool}}+ times in a row, stop using it and find an alternative approach.
Never silently drop a failed item. If the item is a task in the colony queue, write the failure to the DB instead of an in-memory buffer:
sqlite3 "$DB_PATH" "UPDATE tasks SET status='failed', last_error='<one-sentence reason>', completed_at=datetime('now'), updated_at=datetime('now') WHERE id='<task-id>' AND worker_id='<your-worker-id>';"
The tasks.retry_count column and the stale-claim reclaimer handle auto-retry for crashes; your job is the within-run decision tree above. See hive.colony-progress-tracker for the full queue protocol.