Exploring AI Failures

Q: What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Exploring AI Failures skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Exploring AI Failures is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at https://claudskills.com/learn/what-is-skill-md/.

Category: General · Sub-category: general-misc · Last updated: 2026-09-28

Find where an AI/LLM application is failing in production and surface the failure patterns, working from real traces. Use when someone wants to understand what's going wrong with an AI feature, find and categorize failure modes, triage errors, or investigate quality issues (wrong answers, ignored instructions, hallucinations, tool misuse) — "what's failing in my agent", "surface error patterns", "why are the responses bad", "find the common failure modes", "what should I fix next". Covers scoping to one use case, finding failing traces by whichever signal fits the context (code errors, metric outliers, trace-type slices, manual review, existing-eval spikes, clustering), and reading them into a ranked failure taxonomy.

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From the source SKILL.md

The highest-value thing you can do with production AI traffic is look at where it fails and name the patterns. The catch: most failures are silent. The model returns a clean response — HTTP 200, no exception — that is wrong, off-topic, ignores an instruction, or misuses a tool. Those never raise an error, and they're usually the failures worth caring about.

What this skill does

Exploring AI Failures is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/exploring-ai-failures/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when someone wants to understand what's going wrong with an AI feature, find and categorize failure modes, triage errors, or investigate quality issues (wrong answers, ignored instructions, hallucinations, tool misuse) — "what's failing in my agent", "surface error patterns", "why are the responses bad", "find the common failure modes", "what should I fix next". Covers scoping to one use case, finding failing traces by whichever signal fits the context (code errors, metric outliers, trace-type slices, manual review, existing-eval spikes, clustering), and reading them into a ranked failure taxonomy.

Who uses this skill

The Exploring AI Failures Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 196,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/exploring-ai-failures
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/exploring-ai-failures/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/exploring-ai-failures/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/exploring-ai-failures/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/exploring-ai-failures/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\exploring-ai-failures\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Exploring AI Failures Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/exploring-ai-failures/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.

What does the Exploring AI Failures skill do?

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

When should I use the Exploring AI Failures skill?

Use Exploring AI Failures when your Claude Code task falls under the General category — specifically in the general misc area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Exploring AI Failures" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/general/.

What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Exploring AI Failures skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Exploring AI Failures is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/PostHog/skills/blob/HEAD/skills/omnibus/exploring-ai-failures/SKILL.md
License: MIT
Author: PostHog

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APA

PostHog. (2026). Exploring AI Failures [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/exploring-ai-failures/

BibTeX

@misc{exploring-ai-failures-2026,
  author    = {PostHog},
  title     = {Exploring AI Failures [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/exploring-ai-failures/}
}

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Security scan

Grade A · scanned 2026-09-28 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.

The scan flagged 1 of 10 categories (execution), including lower-severity patterns. Patterns shown inside code fences are weighted as examples rather than instructions — read the grading methodology for what this does and does not guarantee.

✓ Prompt injection
✓ Data exfiltration
✓ Supply chain
✓ Reverse shell
✓ Credentials
⚠ Execution
✓ Filesystem
✓ Persistence
✓ Obfuscation
✓ Network

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