Error Recovery

Error Recovery is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by aden-hive in hive.

10.9K stars5.7K forkson aden-hive/hiveAdded 2026/08/15Repository updated 2026/08/13

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Install Error Recovery

Copy Error Recovery into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/aden-hive/hive/tree/main/core/framework/skills/_default_skills/error-recovery ~/.claude/skills/error-recovery

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/aden-hive/hive.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: core/framework/skills/_default_skills/error-recovery/SKILL.md in aden-hive/hive
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/error-recovery
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Error Recovery does

Error Recovery guides an agent through a decision tree for tool call failures: retry transient errors once, fix and retry structural ones, or escalate if blocking. It switches tools after repeated failures and logs failed tasks to a database.

Error Recovery is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Error Recovery comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-framework, agent-skills, anthropic and automation.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Operational Protocol: Error Recovery

When a tool call fails:

Diagnose — classify the failure as transient (network blip, rate limit, timeout) or structural (wrong selector, missing auth, invalid schema, permission denied).
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.
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:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Error Recovery

What else does aden-hive publish alongside Error Recovery?
Error Recovery is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from aden-hive/hive, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Background Job Control, Browser Edge Cases and Chart Creation Foundations. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Error Recovery does, and is maintained by aden-hive in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the aden-hive/hive page.
How does Error Recovery compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Error Recovery ranks #373 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Error Recovery against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.