# convex-sentinel

Configures Sentinel error capture inside your own Convex deployment. Useful for tracking server failures and client React crashes without sending logs to third-party services.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 35700 installs · ★ 68
- 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-sentinel/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-13
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/convex-sentinel

## What it does

This skill configures `@convex-dev/sentinel` to store production runtime issues directly in your Convex database. It captures server function failures, client React crashes, `window.onerror` events, and concurrency conflict signals. All data stays strictly inside your deployment.

The skill wires `app.use(sentinel)` into `convex/convex.config.ts` and configures a React error boundary with breadcrumbs. Secret redaction runs at write time by default through a deny list on secret names and value patterns. This keeps credentials out of the error tables before the agent reads them for model processing.

You can inspect logs through Convex CLI queries or listen to the `prod_error` event. It also supports an optional self-healing cron: the `triage` step tags recurring non-transient failures and passes them to ai-runner to open a pull request. Real error capture requires a live cloud deployment.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add convex/agent-skills --skill convex-sentinel -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-sentinel/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- capture Convex server failures and client React crashes into internal tables
- redact credentials and secret tokens at write time before storage
- monitor runtime incidents via Convex CLI and the `prod_error` event
- automate fix pull requests for recurring bugs with `triage` and ai-runner

## Example prompts
- Set up convex-sentinel in convex/convex.config.ts and wire the React error boundary
- Inspect recent production errors recorded by Sentinel using Convex CLI
- Enable the triage self-healing cron job to open fix pull requests with ai-runner

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

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name: convex-sentinel
description: "Set up Sentinel production error capture in your own Convex deployment."
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# Capture production errors in your own deployment

Install `@convex-dev/sentinel` to capture production errors (server function failures, client JS/React crashes, OCC and scale signals) into a table in the user's OWN deployment, redacted at write time, then react to new ones. Data never leaves the user's deployment.

## Workflow

1. Install the component: `app.use(sentinel)` in `convex/convex.config.ts`.
2. Wire the client SDK: a React error boundary plus `window.onerror`/`unhandledrejection` and breadcrumbs.
3. Redaction runs at write time and is on by default (default-deny on secret key names and value patterns).
4. Read recent errors with the Convex CLI (`convex data`, `run-once-query`); react to new ones via the monitor's `prod_error` event.
5. Optionally enable the self-healing cron: `triage` classifies each error and, for recurring non-transient ones, hands it to ai-runner to open a fix PR.

## Rules

- Redaction is mandatory and on by default — never store raw secrets; the agent's reads reach the model provider.
- Data stays in the user's deployment; never send it to a third party.
- Sample and cap to control volume and cost.
- Capturing PROD errors needs a deployed cloud app; install works anonymously.
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