Error Recovery Patterns

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Error Recovery Patterns is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by github in gh-aw.

4.9K stars495 forkson github/gh-awAdded 2026/08/16Repository updated 2026/08/16

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Install Error Recovery Patterns

Copy Error Recovery Patterns 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/github/gh-aw/tree/main/.github/skills/error-recovery-patterns ~/.claude/skills/error-recovery-patterns

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/github/gh-aw.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .github/skills/error-recovery-patterns/SKILL.md in github/gh-aw
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/error-recovery-patterns
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Error Recovery Patterns does

Error Recovery Patterns provides guidance for implementing retry logic, circuit breakers, exponential backoff, error categorization, and debug logging to reduce retry loops and handle transient failures in automated agent workflows. Use it when adding recovery strategies for network operations, installations, or API calls.

Error Recovery Patterns is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Error Recovery Patterns comes from a repository tagged actions, cai, ci, claude-code and codex.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Error Recovery Patterns Skill

Use this skill for error handling, recovery strategies, and debugging in gh-aw.

Purpose

Implement robust recovery patterns to:

Reduce retry loops in agent sessions (target: <10% vs current 23%)
Implement circuit breakers to prevent infinite retry loops
Add proactive recovery for installation, dependency, and API failures
Improve debug logging for recovery attempts

When to Use This Skill

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

Frequently asked about Error Recovery Patterns

What else does github publish alongside Error Recovery Patterns?
Error Recovery Patterns is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from github/gh-aw, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AWF Release Integrator, Agent Session CLI and Agent Task CLI. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Error Recovery Patterns does, and is maintained by github in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the github/gh-aw page.
How does Error Recovery Patterns compare to other DevOps skills?
Error Recovery Patterns ranks #167 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. 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 Patterns against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.