HomericIntelligence

Agent Background Task Failure Recovery — Productivity skill for Claude Code

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Detect and recover from silent background agent failures caused by API connection errors.

How to install Agent Background Task Failure Recovery

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/homericintelligence-projectmnemosyne-agent-background-task-failure-recovery/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/homericintelligence-projectmnemosyne-agent-background-task-failure-recovery && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HomericIntelligence/ProjectMnemosyne/HEAD/skills/agent-background-task-failure-recovery.md -o ~/.claude/skills/homericintelligence-projectmnemosyne-agent-background-task-failure-recovery/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Agent Background Task Failure Recovery does

name: agent-background-task-failure-recovery license: BSD-3-Clause description: "Detect and recover from silent background agent failures caused by API connection errors. Use when: (1) a background agent completes but its result shows 'API Error: Unable to connect to API', (2) files appear untouched after a background agent run, (3) deciding whether to use run_in_background vs foreground for a multi-file task." category: tooling date: 2026-04-17 version: "1.0.0" user-invocable: false verific

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