Glean Common Errors

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Backend & APIs work in your project

Example prompts

• “glean error”
• “glean not indexing”
• “glean search empty”
• “/glean-common-errors”

Requirements

• A credential in GLEAN_API_KEY
• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Grep, Bash(curl:*)

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Classify the symptom by status code and operation before changing configuration.
2. 2Reproduce once with the synthetic probe and capture only status, latency band, and correlation ID.
3. 3Check token scope, rate-limit budget, request shape, connector freshness, and ACL watermark in that order.
4. 4Make one reversible fix at a time; access-scope changes require owner approval and allow/deny probes.
5. 5Escalate a redacted diagnostic bundle if the correlation class persists after rollback.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cfae287. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Grep
  • Bash(curl:*)

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • curl

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

  • developers.glean.com

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • GLEAN_API_KEY

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

• Compatibility

  Designed for Claude Code

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Glean Common Errors loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 53 tokens; SKILL.md has 611 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~53

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.5k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 611 words, ~1,548 tokens.

name

glean-common-errors

description

Diagnose and fix common Glean API errors including indexing failures, search issues, and permission problems. Trigger: "glean error", "glean not indexing", "glean search empty", "debug glean".

allowed-tools

Read, Grep, Bash(curl:*)

compatibility

Designed for Claude Code

version

1.8.0

license

MIT

author

Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>

tags

saas, enterprise-search, glean

interface GleanError {
  code: number;
  message: string;
  category: "auth" | "rate_limit" | "indexing" | "permission";
}

function classifyGleanError(status: number, body: string): GleanError {
  if (status === 401) {
    return { code: 401, message: body, category: "auth" };
  }
  if (status === 429) {
    return { code: 429, message: "Rate limit exceeded", category: "rate_limit" };
  }
  if (status === 403 && body.includes("permission")) {
    return { code: 403, message: body, category: "permission" };
  }
  if (status === 400) {
    return { code: 400, message: body, category: "indexing" };
  }
  return { code: status, message: body, category: "auth" };
}

# Verify client token connectivity
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GLEAN_API_KEY" \
  -H "X-Glean-Auth-Type: BEARER" \
  https://your-domain.glean.com/api/v1/search

© jeremylongshore, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/.curated/glean-common-errors of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287