Agent skill

Persona Common Errors

by jeremylongshore in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace

Triage Persona authentication, JSON:API, inquiry, session, webhook, and throttle failures with redacted evidence.

MITAuto-check passedBackend & APIs

Install Persona Common Errors

skills CLI
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill persona-common-errors -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace persona-common-errors --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/persona-common-errors .claude/skills/persona-common-errors && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
persona-common-errors
GitHub stars
2.8k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
504 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
3,342
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Triage Persona authentication, JSON:API, inquiry, session, webhook, and throttle failures with redacted evidence.

  • Works in 6 steps: Freeze the evidence → Check environment and auth → Validate the request envelope → …
  • An integration is failing
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Prerequisites, Instructions and Authentication, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Persona Common Errors is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Triage Persona authentication, JSON:API, inquiry, session, webhook, and throttle failures with redacted evidence. Use when an integration is failing. Trigger with: "debug Persona error", "Persona 401", "Persona inquiry failed".

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/official-docs.md`). Compatibility notes: Requires an authorized Persona environment, current first-party documentation, a reviewed dated API version, and privacy-safe operational evidence.

It sits in Backend & APIs, covering Webhooks. The repository describes itself as: Model-agnostic agent-skills platform with a harness-free canonical layer, verified adapters, and the ccpi package manager. Explore at tonsofskills.com. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • An integration is failing
  • With: debug Persona error
  • Persona inquiry failed

Example prompts

  • “debug Persona error”
  • “Persona 401”
  • “Persona inquiry failed”
  • “/persona-common-errors”

Requirements

  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires an authorized Persona environment, current first-party documentation, a reviewed dated API version, and privacy-safe operational evidence.
  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Grep, Write, Edit

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Freeze the evidence
  2. Check environment and auth
  3. Validate the request envelope
  4. Reconcile lifecycle state
  5. Verify event intake
  6. Respect limit signals

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
    • Write
    • Edit

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    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):

    • docs.withpersona.com

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

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

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

  • Compatibility

    Requires an authorized Persona environment, current first-party documentation, a reviewed dated API version, and privacy-safe operational evidence.

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Persona Common Errors loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 62 tokens; SKILL.md has 504 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~62
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~2.1k

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

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

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). 504 words, ~1,234 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/persona-common-errors/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
persona-common-errors
description
Triage Persona authentication, JSON:API, inquiry, session, webhook, and throttle failures with redacted evidence. Use when an integration is failing. Trigger with: "debug Persona error", "Persona 401", "Persona inquiry failed".
allowed-tools
Read, Grep, Write, Edit
compatibility
Requires an authorized Persona environment, current first-party documentation, a reviewed dated API version, and privacy-safe operational evidence.
version
2.0.0
argument-hint
[request-id-or-inquiry-id]
model
inherit
effort
high
license
MIT
author
Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>
tags
saas, persona, troubleshooting, errors, inquiries

Persona API and Inquiry Failure Triage

Overview

Diagnose from the outer boundary inward: environment and credentials, request contract, resource lifecycle, session state, webhook authenticity, then provider limits. Preserve the original status and request evidence while keeping identity data out of logs.

Prerequisites

  • Timestamp, environment, endpoint, status, and provider request identifier
  • Redacted request fingerprint and relevant inquiry or event ID
  • Access to current Dashboard configuration and application logs

Instructions

Step 1: Freeze the evidence

Record UTC time, method, canonical host and path, API version, status, request ID, idempotency key hash, and response-body hash.

Step 2: Check environment and auth

Confirm api.withpersona.com, the target environment, key state, permissions, and explicit version. A 401 is not fixed by printing or widening the key.

Step 3: Validate the request envelope

Check JSON:API shape, template selector, content headers, account auto-create metadata, and replay parameters.

Step 4: Reconcile lifecycle state

Read the inquiry before retrying a create, resume, or transition. Distinguish pending, terminal, redacted, and unavailable resources.

Step 5: Verify event intake

Use raw bytes, timestamp-plus-dot-plus-body HMAC, all v1 candidates, constant-time compare, event-ID dedupe, and creation-time ordering.

Step 6: Respect limit signals

Read live RateLimit-* and Quota-* headers and Dashboard product quotas. On 429, reduce the responsible lane and use bounded backoff.

Authentication

Authenticate REST diagnostics with the correct environment bearer key and webhook diagnostics with the endpoint’s signing secret. Redact both before creating a ticket or debug bundle.

Tool Discipline

Use Read and Grep to inspect application configuration, provider documentation, fixtures, schemas, tests, and redacted operational evidence before proposing a change. Use Write or Edit only for an approved implementation, configuration, test, runbook, or redacted receipt. Do not create, resume, approve, decline, redact, rotate, revoke, deploy, or otherwise mutate production Persona resources without explicit operator approval.

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Output

  • Ranked root-cause hypothesis with evidence
  • Safe retry, reconciliation, or manual-review action
  • Redacted escalation packet and unresolved risks

Return the environment, resource and event identifiers, API version, template context, source-contract fingerprint, evidence, unresolved risk, rollback state, and final decision without exposing bearer keys, webhook secrets, inquiry session tokens, raw identity documents, or unnecessary PII.

Examples

A create call times out and its replay returns an unexpected response. The operator compares the stored idempotency key and request fingerprint, queries for the resulting inquiry, and avoids issuing a second customer workflow.

Error Handling

FailureResponse
401 or 403Verify host, environment, key state, permission, and version without exposing the bearer value.
400 or 422Inspect the JSON:API error pointers and compare the request to the current endpoint contract.
404 inquiryCheck environment and ID lineage; a redacted or wrong-tenant resource must not trigger blind recreation.
429Honor current headers, apply 5/10/20/40-second bounded delay where appropriate, and reconcile before mutation replay.

Validation

Verify the result against the linked first-party evidence, the pinned API version, redacted contract fixtures, an expected failure path, and the documented rollback or manual-disposition path. A successful request is not proof of a successful identity decision.

Resources

© 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

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in skills/.curated/persona-common-errors of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/official-docs.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287

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Questions about Persona Common Errors

What does Persona Common Errors do?

Triage Persona authentication, JSON:API, inquiry, session, webhook, and throttle failures with redacted evidence. Persona Common Errors is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Triage Persona authentication, JSON:API, inquiry, session, webhook, and throttle failures with redacted evidence.

When should I use Persona Common Errors?

Persona Common Errors fits situations like: an integration is failing; with: debug Persona error; persona inquiry failed.

How do I install Persona Common Errors in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill persona-common-errors -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/persona-common-errors in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .claude/skills/persona-common-errors in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Persona Common Errors in Codex?

Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill persona-common-errors -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/persona-common-errors in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .agents/skills/persona-common-errors in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Persona Common Errors in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill persona-common-errors -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/persona-common-errors, .gemini/skills/persona-common-errors, .github/skills/persona-common-errors and .opencode/skills/persona-common-errors in your project.

What does Persona Common Errors need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Persona Common Errors is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Grep, Write, Edit. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires an authorized Persona environment, current first-party documentation, a reviewed dated API version, and privacy-safe operational evidence..

Does Persona Common Errors access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: docs.withpersona.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Persona Common Errors safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Persona Common Errors use?

Persona Common Errors is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Persona Common Errors use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 900 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Persona Common Errors?

jeremylongshore (a GitHub user) maintains it in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, which has 2,827 GitHub stars. The repository holds 3,342 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.