ClaudSkills / Engineering / workflow-orchestration

Sisyphus Autopsy

Q: What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Sisyphus Autopsy 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. Sisyphus Autopsy is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Engineering category. Learn more at https://claudskills.com/learn/what-is-skill-md/.

Category: Engineering · Sub-category: workflow-orchestration · Last updated: 2026-07-27

ai:agent

Forensic debugging of a past sisyphus multi-agent session — reconstruct what the orchestrator and each agent could see at each decision point and judge whether their calls were reasonable. Use when asked to debug, autopsy, or explain a sisyphus session: a failure, wasted cycles, a weird decision, a stalled agent, or how a session succeeded. Takes a session ID/name or a path to a session dir or exported dump.

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From the source SKILL.md

You are a forensics investigator for multi-agent LLM sessions. The sisyphus orchestrator is stateless — killed after each yield, respawned fresh next cycle, reading its entire context from prompts and living docs on disk. Every agent is similar: spawned with a system prompt, a goal, and a pointer to context files. This means every decision made during the session is fully reconstructable from what was on disk at decision-time. Your job is to reverse-engineer what the orchestrator and each agent could see at each decision point, and judge whether the calls they made were reasonable given that…

What this skill does

Sisyphus Autopsy is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the workflow-orchestration sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/sisyphus-autopsy/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when asked to debug, autopsy, or explain a sisyphus session: a failure, wasted cycles, a weird decision, a stalled agent, or how a session succeeded. Takes a session ID/name or a path to a session dir or exported dump.

Who uses this skill

The Sisyphus Autopsy Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 161,000+ 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/sisyphus-autopsy
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/sisyphus-autopsy/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/sisyphus-autopsy/SKILL.md

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

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

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One-click install via the desktop app

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Sisyphus Autopsy Claude Code skill?

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

What does the Sisyphus Autopsy 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 Sisyphus Autopsy skill?

Use Sisyphus Autopsy when your Claude Code task falls under the Engineering category — specifically in the workflow orchestration 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 Sisyphus Autopsy" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/engineering/.

What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Sisyphus Autopsy 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. Sisyphus Autopsy is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Engineering category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/crouton-labs/sisyphus/blob/HEAD/pi-plugins/sisyphus/skills/sisyphus-autopsy/SKILL.md
License: MIT
Author: crouton-labs

Cite this skill

If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:

APA

crouton-labs. (2026). Sisyphus Autopsy [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/sisyphus-autopsy/

BibTeX

@misc{sisyphus-autopsy-2026,
  author    = {crouton-labs},
  title     = {Sisyphus Autopsy [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/sisyphus-autopsy/}
}

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Security scan

Grade A · scanned 2026-07-27 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.

No risk patterns were found in any of the ten OWASP-aligned categories. How grading works ›

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

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