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curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body --max-time 60 \
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--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
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Fixes marimo failing to start because the port is already in use by a stale session. Use when the bind fails with address-in-use. Not for reactive cycle errors or export problems.
Cleans up zombie kernel processes an agent left behind: find them, kill them, and give the agent a shutdown discipline. Zombies eat ports and memory. For agent builders.
Clears npm's Tracker idealTree already exists error after a crashed or parallel install. Use it when npm install dies with that tracker message. Key trigger: the literal idealTree already exists line with no other root cause in the log. Not for genuine dependency conflicts or registry outages.
Cleans up after a hydra credential-guessing run that an agent timed out against an authorized lab target. Use when killed hydra workers linger as zombie processes on the tester's own workstation and the agent never reaps them. Not for hydra being blocked by the target.
Fixes a docs agent whose TypeDoc run gets OOM-killed on a large monorepo. The skill shows how to raise the Node memory limit, split the run per package, and exclude heavy generated files. It gives the agent a memory budget for doc generation.
Fixes Cypress's 'The browser never connected' error caused by Chrome crashing under CI memory pressure. Shows how to pass --disable-dev-shm-usage to Chrome, reduce parallel browser workers, and verify the container's memory before rerunning. Use when Cypress cannot launch or keep Chrome alive in CI while local runs wo…
Fixes node error listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use after migrating the dev server to vite. Use it when vite refuses to start because something already holds the port - usually the old dev server process still running. Key trigger: EADDRINUSE naming the vite port right after the migration.
Shows how to diagnose a Linux box with sky-high load average and idle CPUs: find the processes stuck in uninterruptible sleep (D state) and fix the storage or NFS stall underneath. Use when top shows idle CPUs but load is high, logins are slow, or commands hang. Not for genuinely CPU-bound load, memory pressure, or zo…
Fixes agents hanging on Cloudflare Pages preview builds stuck in the build queue. Use when the build never starts and the agent waits indefinitely. Not for build failures, function bundle errors, or production build problems.
Breaks the agent loop where the agent alternates wrangler deploy and wrangler dev hoping the environment difference fixes the error. Use when runs bounce between local and remote without addressing the code. Not for legitimate local-vs-remote parity debugging or one-time environment checks.
Fixes a wrangler tail session that drops its connection and never reconnects, leaving the agent blind. Use it when wrangler tail stalls with no new logs and reconnect attempts never recover. Key trigger: tail shows no output for longer than the expected log cadence while the worker is serving traffic.
Unsticks a kernel that is busy forever with interrupt not working: the kernel is wedged in native code or the interrupt signal is lost. Restart as the reliable path, and prevent recurrence with timeouts. Not for slow-but-working cells.
For teams running checkout setup agents. Use when failed checkouts loop. Not for checkout config errors.
Fixes Jest's 'worker process has failed to exit gracefully' by closing leaked handles in teardown. Use when workers hang or get force-killed after tests pass. Not for crashing workers or failing assertions.
Unsticks cdxgen hangs on monorepos by scoping runs per project with progress output and timeouts. Use when cdxgen runs for an hour with no output, or when the agent cannot tell a slow scan from a stuck one. Key trigger: no progress logging and no per-project scoping.
Fixes dry-run modes that still push branches and open PRs because the flag only gated the merge step. Use when a dry run produced remote side effects. Key trigger: new branches or PRs appear after a dry-run execution.
Fixes Jest's 'worker encountered N child process exceptions exceeding retry limit' by surfacing the real crash and tuning worker resources. Use when parallel Jest runs abort with this exact message. Not for deterministic single-test failures.
Fixes wrangler dev dying in local mode with workerd failing to start and no useful error output. Use it when the dev server exits silently or hangs at startup. Key trigger: the absence of an error message itself, which usually means a stale local state directory, an incompatible Node version, or a corrupted wrangler i…
Fixes wrangler dev failing with "Port 8787 is already in use" when starting the local dev server. Use it when a second wrangler dev refuses to start or a previous session did not shut down cleanly. Key trigger: the error names the port, and the fix is stopping the stale process or starting dev on a different port.
Diagnoses a test that got quarantined as flaky when the real cause was a stale docker container the agent itself left running. Use it when a quarantined test fails with port conflicts, resource collisions, or state that only exists because of a leftover container from an earlier agent session. Not for container failur…
Fixes agents that cannot reproduce CI-only Playwright timeouts because they ignore CI's constrained CPU. Use when Playwright times out in CI but passes locally and the CI runner has far fewer CPUs. Reproduce with a single worker under CPU throttling, read the trace for the slow step, and size timeouts and workers for …
Unsticks a headless agent blocked on prisma migrate dev's interactive database-reset prompt. Use it when migrate dev hangs waiting for a reset confirmation with no terminal to answer it. Key trigger: the process sits with zero output where a human would be asked to confirm a reset.
Clears a stuck migration transaction and releases the lock after the migration CLI was killed by a step timeout. Use it when a killed migration left an open transaction holding locks and new migrations block behind it. Key trigger: migrations hang waiting on a lock from a dead process.
Finds and kills zombie processes on Linux servers. Use when ps shows defunct processes accumulating, when zombies hold resources, or when deciding whether zombies are dangerous. Covers why kill does not work on zombies. Not for runaway CPU processes.
Shows how to find open handles that keep a jest process from exiting. Use it when jest hangs after tests pass or CI jobs time out at teardown. Not for test failures, flaky assertions, or general jest slowness.