Handle failed tool calls with a clear recovery process. The skill distinguishes temporary problems from input or setup issues, chooses whether to retry or change approach, and records failures so unsuccessful tasks are not silently lost.
Follow a structured recovery decision tree when tool calls fail instead of blindly retrying or giving up.
Review the instructions the agent will receive before you install.
When a tool call fails:
Diagnose — classify the failure as transient (network blip, rate limit, timeout) or structural (wrong selector, missing auth, invalid schema, permission denied).
Decide:
Adapt — if the same tool has failed {{max_retries_per_tool}}+ times in a row, stop using it and find an alternative approach.
Never silently drop a failed item. If the item is a task in the colony queue, write the failure to the DB instead of an in-memory buffer:
sqlite3 "$DB_PATH" "UPDATE tasks SET status='failed', last_error='<one-sentence reason>', completed_at=datetime('now'), updated_at=datetime('now') WHERE id='<task-id>' AND worker_id='<your-worker-id>';"
The tasks.retry_count column and the stale-claim reclaimer handle auto-retry for crashes; your job is the within-run decision tree above. See hive.colony-progress-tracker for the full queue protocol.
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