How does it handle command failures?

Instead of retrying blindly, the skill diagnoses the root cause—such as missing dependencies or permissions—and attempts an autonomous fix or reports the specific error to the user.

Why are artefacts posted to GitHub immediately?

Posting designs and plans as soon as they are ready ensures they survive local session failures and provides immediate visibility into progress for human team members.

What happens if a subagent fails?

Failures are isolated to the subagent level. The main session dispatches a new subagent with corrective context or a simplified scope rather than cluttering the primary environment.

What is state persistence in this skill?

It tracks the current phase, branch name, and GitHub IDs in a local state file, allowing Claude to resume work exactly where it left off if a session is interrupted.

Does this fix errors in my application code?

No, this skill focuses exclusively on the resilience and recovery of Claude Code's own operational workflow and session stability, not the error handling of the application code it generates.

Claude Code Workflow Resilience

Name: Claude Code Workflow Resilience
Author: thermiteau

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Productivity & Workflow

Provides systematic patterns for Claude Code session persistence, crash recovery, and robust failure handling to ensure workflow continuity.

This skill equips Claude Code with a framework for maintaining workflow resilience during complex, multi-step tasks. It implements state persistence by tracking progress in local files, ensures artefact durability by posting designs and plans to GitHub immediately, and provides structured protocols for session resumption after a crash. By distinguishing between command failures and subagent errors, it allows Claude to intelligently diagnose root causes and reconcile state against reality upon restart, making it indispensable for long-running autonomous development sessions where losing progress is not an option.

Key Features

01Milestone-based state persistence to local JSON files

02Immediate GitHub artefact durability for designs and plans

03Intelligent command failure diagnosis and autonomous fixing

040 GitHub stars

05Automated session recovery and state reconciliation

06Subagent failure isolation and corrective re-dispatching

Use Cases

01Managing nested subagent failures without polluting the main session's context

02Resuming complex multi-step development tasks after a terminal crash or session timeout

03Ensuring project stakeholders can see intermediate designs and plans on GitHub before work completes

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add thermiteau/maverick-private mav-claude-code-recovery

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

Key Features

01Milestone-based state persistence to local JSON files

02Immediate GitHub artefact durability for designs and plans

03Intelligent command failure diagnosis and autonomous fixing

040 GitHub stars

05Automated session recovery and state reconciliation

06Subagent failure isolation and corrective re-dispatching

Use Cases

01Managing nested subagent failures without polluting the main session's context

02Resuming complex multi-step development tasks after a terminal crash or session timeout

03Ensuring project stakeholders can see intermediate designs and plans on GitHub before work completes

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add thermiteau/maverick-private mav-claude-code-recovery

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT