# error-scan

Scans recent Claude Code sessions for API errors and unfinished tool calls, then ranks failures by tool and model. Useful when you need to see what is breaking.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 1121
- Author: hoangsonww
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor/tree/HEAD/plugins/ccam-quality/skills/error-scan/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/error-scan

## What it does

The skill checks Agent Monitor data for `APIError` events and `PreToolUse` events without a matching `PostToolUse`. It groups failures by tool and model, then sorts them by frequency. You can scan all failure signals, focus on API errors or tool failures, set a limit on recent sessions, or target one session ID.

The report covers the sessions scanned, overall failure counts, and breakdowns by tool and model. It also names the tool, model, and session with the most failures. The skill only reads data from the Agent Monitor API. If `curl` cannot reach `http://localhost:4820`, start the dashboard from the repository root with `npm start`; the scan depends on that server being reachable.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor --skill error-scan -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor --skill error-scan -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor --skill error-scan -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor error-scan
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor --skill error-scan -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor --path plugins/ccam-quality/skills/error-scan
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor --skill error-scan -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/hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor/tree/HEAD/plugins/ccam-quality/skills/error-scan/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- find API errors across recent sessions
- spot tool calls that never completed
- rank failures by tool
- compare error counts across models
- identify the session with the most failures

## Example prompts
- Scan all sessions and group the failures.
- Show API errors only: `api`.
- Check tool failures across the most recent 10 sessions: `tools 10`.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: error-scan
description: >
  Scan recent Claude Code activity for errors and failure signals across all
  sessions using Agent Monitor data — APIError events and PreToolUse→PostToolUse
  gaps (tools that started but never completed) — then group failures by tool and
  model and rank them by frequency. Use when checking for errors or asking
  "what's failing right now".
---

# Error Scan

Sweep recent events across sessions for error and failure signals, then rank them
by how often they occur and which tool or model produced them.

## Input

The user provides: **$ARGUMENTS**

This may be:
- empty or "all" — scan every failure signal (default)
- "api" — APIError events only
- "tools" — tool-failure gaps only
- a number N — limit the scan to the most recent N sessions
- a session ID — scan a single session

## Data Sources

| Endpoint | Returns |
|----------|---------|
| `GET /api/analytics` | `event_types` (counts per type incl. PreToolUse, PostToolUse, APIError), `tool_usage` (top 20), `daily_events` (365d) — fleet-wide failure baseline |
| `GET /api/events?session_id=X` | Per-session event stream: `event_type`, `tool_name`, `summary`, `data`, `timestamp` — locate `APIError` and unmatched `PreToolUse` |
| `GET /api/sessions?limit=N` | Sessions with `id`, `status`, `model`, `started_at` — pick the recent window and attribute failures to a model |

## Report Sections

### 1. Scope
Resolve `$ARGUMENTS` to a session set: pull `GET /api/sessions?limit=N` (default 50, ordered by `started_at`). Report how many sessions and what time span are covered.

### 2. Fleet Failure Counts
From `GET /api/analytics` `event_types`, report total `APIError` count and the PreToolUse→PostToolUse gap: `gap = PreToolUse − PostToolUse` (unmatched tool starts = likely failures). State both as raw counts and as a share of `total_events`.

### 3. Group by Tool
For each session in scope, pull `GET /api/events?session_id=X`. Match each `PreToolUse` to its following `PostToolUse` by `tool_name`; unmatched starts are failures. Aggregate failures and `APIError` events per `tool_name`. Rank tools by failure frequency (descending).

### 4. Group by Model
Join failures to the owning session's `model` (from `GET /api/sessions`). Rank models by APIError count and tool-failure count.

### 5. Top Offenders
List the single most failure-prone tool, the most error-prone model, and the session with the most failures, each with its exact count and one-line `summary` excerpt from a representative event.

## Output

- A ranked Markdown table: tool/model | APIError count | tool-failure (gap) count | total failures | share of events.
- Rates as percentages to 2 decimals.
- Cite exact `event_type`, `tool_name`, and `session_id` values — never fabricate counts.
- End with the one failure pattern most worth investigating and a concrete next step.
- Read-only: only report what the API returns. If `curl` cannot reach `http://localhost:4820`, tell the user to start the dashboard with `npm start` from the repo root.
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