# convex-self-heal

The skill takes a production error through triage, root cause and repair, certifies the fix on a preview, then opens a PR. A human merges.

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- Author: convex
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/convex/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/convex-self-heal/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-13
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/convex-self-heal

## What it does

This skill closes the loop from a production failure to proof that it stopped recurring. It starts by requiring sentinel, which captures errors inside your own deployment. Without capture there is nothing to heal, so the skill offers to install sentinel first and stops there.

Every error gets triaged. A one-off network blip is retried or ignored, a config problem goes to env (the skill will not guess a secret), and only a real code or schema defect enters repair. Root cause runs on the findings bus: `convex-insights` supplies the failing requests and stacks, `convex-advisor` joins in for read-limit and OCC causes, `convex-reviewer` and `convex-authz` handle logic and authz defects. If the cause stays unclear, the skill stops and reports — a wrong fix is worse than a visible open error.

Repair happens on a branch, never on prod. Before proposing, the skill certifies the change: a clean `tsc --noEmit`, a migrate-rehearse run on a preview seeded with a prod snapshot when schema or data is touched, a replay of the triggering input against the fixed code, and a check that no new finding appeared. A fix that fails certification is reported as attempted but uncertified, not proposed. Nothing auto-merges. After deploy the skill re-checks the sentinel table and `logs` to confirm the error signature is gone.

## Requirements
- Works with: Sentry

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add convex/agent-skills --skill convex-self-heal -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/convex-self-heal/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/convex-self-heal/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add convex/agent-skills --skill convex-self-heal -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/convex-self-heal/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add convex/agent-skills --skill convex-self-heal -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/convex-self-heal/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install convex/agent-skills convex-self-heal
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/convex-self-heal/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add convex/agent-skills --skill convex-self-heal -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/convex/agent-skills --path skills/convex-self-heal
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/convex-self-heal/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add convex/agent-skills --skill convex-self-heal -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/convex/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/convex-self-heal/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- trace a failing production request back to its cause
- prepare a fix on a branch instead of editing prod
- rehearse a schema change against a prod snapshot
- filter out transient blips so no PR is opened for them
- confirm after deploy that the error signature stopped recurring

## Example prompts
- triage the sentinel error and prepare a fix PR
- root-cause this failing function and certify the repair
- the error came back after deploy — reopen the loop with the new evidence

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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name: convex-self-heal
description: "Production error → triaged, root-caused, repaired, and certified (tsc + rehearsal + reproduce-then-gone) fix PR for a human to merge — then confirm the error stops recurring. Never auto-merges."
---

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# Gated production self-healing loop

Sentry/Datadog/Vercel can go error→investigate→draft-PR, but they treat the backend as opaque and stop at the human merge gate with an unverified diff. Convex can do the step they can't: because the error rows live in the user's own deployment and the fix can be rehearsed on a preview of that deployment, the platform certifies the fix against real invariants before anyone reviews it. This capability is the composition capstone — it wires sentinel (capture) → the findings bus (diagnose) → the fixers (repair) → migrate-rehearse/tsc/probe (certify) → a human PR (decide) → deploy-guard (promote). The human keeps the merge button; the machine does everything up to and including proving the fix works.

## Workflow

1. GUARD: deploy-guard — this loop reads prod and PROPOSES prod changes; classify + announce the deployment and get the standing consent for the loop's scope up front (what classes of fix it may auto-prepare vs must always defer). Never auto-merge; the human merge is the fixed boundary.
2. CAPTURE: require sentinel (prod errors in the user's own deployment, redacted at write time). If absent, offer to install it and stop — there is nothing to heal without capture.
3. TRIAGE a new/ recurring error: pull it via the official MCP (data/run-once-query over the sentinel table, or the monitor's prod_error event). Classify: transient (retry/ignore — do NOT open a PR for a one-off network blip), config (env/secret — hand to env, never guess a secret), or a code/schema defect (proceed).
4. ROOT-CAUSE on the findings bus: run the relevant audit pass on the implicated function — convex-insights (the failing requests + stacks), convex-advisor (if it's a read-limit/OCC cause), convex-reviewer/convex-authz (if it's a logic/authz defect). Produce a bus finding with evidence (the stack + the reproducing input) and a fixCapability. If root cause is unclear, STOP and report — a wrong fix is worse than an open error.
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