Canary Failure Impact — Testing skill for Claude Code
Trace the downstream impact of a test, function, or code path failing undetected — produces a severity label and affected dependency list.
How to install Canary Failure Impact
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/bop-clocktower-canary-canary-failure-impact/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/bop-clocktower-canary-canary-failure-impact && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bop-clocktower/canary/HEAD/commands/canary-failure-impact.md -o ~/.claude/skills/bop-clocktower-canary-canary-failure-impact/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Canary Failure Impact does
description: Trace the downstream impact of a test, function, or code path failing undetected — produces a severity label and affected dependency list. argument-hint: "" allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Glob, Grep
canary-failure-impact
Use the `canary-failure-impact` agent to trace the impact of a failure.
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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