Agent skill

Ss Log Mistake

by Serial-Studio in Serial-Studio/Serial-Studio

Append a row to Serial Studio's mistakes ledger (doc/claude/common-mistakes.md) for a defect just caught, and decide whether the class can be made mechanical.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Ss Log Mistake

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Serial-Studio/Serial-Studio --skill ss-log-mistake -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Serial-Studio/Serial-Studio ss-log-mistake --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/Serial-Studio/Serial-Studio.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/ss-log-mistake .claude/skills/ss-log-mistake && 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
ss-log-mistake
GitHub stars
7.2k
Token cost
~947 tokens
SKILL.md length
518 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
15
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Append a row to Serial Studio's mistakes ledger (doc/claude/common-mistakes.md) for a defect just caught, and decide whether the class can be made mechanical.

  • Works in 6 steps: Name the class before the row. One chat… → Check it is not already there. Grep… → Pick the section by subsystem. Workflow… → …
  • Asked to log this mistake
  • SKILL.md covers Procedure and Don't
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ss Log Mistake is an agent skill from Serial-Studio/Serial-Studio. Append a row to Serial Studio's mistakes ledger (doc/claude/common-mistakes.md) for a defect just caught, and decide whether the class can be made mechanical. Use when asked to "log this mistake", "add this to common-mistakes", "make sure this doesn't happen again", or right after the maintainer corrects a repeated error. A row closes with Codified: naming the lint rule, anchor, hook, or test that now catches it, or not yet.

Its SKILL.md is about 950 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Development, covering Linting and formatting. The repository describes itself as: Open-source telemetry dashboard. Supports UART, BLE, MQTT, Modbus, CAN Bus and more.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to log this mistake
  • Add this to common-mistakes
  • Make sure this doesnt happen again
  • Right after the maintainer corrects a repeated error

Example prompts

  • “log this mistake”
  • “add this to common-mistakes”
  • “make sure this doesn”
  • “/ss-log-mistake”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Name the class before the row. One chat sentence: the symptom, why it was silent, and
  2. Check it is not already there. Grep doc/claude/common-mistakes.md and CLAUDE.md for
  3. Pick the section by subsystem. Workflow and collaboration mistakes go under
  4. Write the row in the existing two-column shape.
  5. Ask the mechanical question, per tier. Could the class be caught by
  6. Handoff. Quote the finished row in chat. Nothing else in the file changes.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 3657d2c. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    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

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    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.

Context cost

Ss Log Mistake loads about 947 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 112 tokens; SKILL.md has 518 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~112
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~947

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 518 words (~947 tokens).

“Writing a mistake down is not the fix. The fix is the check that makes the class harder to repeat; the row exists to say which check that is, or to admit there is none yet. Adapted from the /log-mistake…”

— opening of SKILL.md by Serial-Studio, Custom licence
name
ss-log-mistake
argument-hint
[what went wrong]

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/ss-log-mistake of Serial-Studio/Serial-Studio.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 3657d2c

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Questions about Ss Log Mistake

What does Ss Log Mistake do?

Append a row to Serial Studio's mistakes ledger (doc/claude/common-mistakes.md) for a defect just caught, and decide whether the class can be made mechanical. Ss Log Mistake is an agent skill from Serial-Studio/Serial-Studio.md) for a defect just caught, and decide whether the class can be made mechanical.

When should I use Ss Log Mistake?

Ss Log Mistake fits situations like: asked to log this mistake; add this to common-mistakes; make sure this doesnt happen again; right after the maintainer corrects a repeated error.

How do I install Ss Log Mistake in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Serial-Studio/Serial-Studio --skill ss-log-mistake -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/ss-log-mistake in Serial-Studio/Serial-Studio) into .claude/skills/ss-log-mistake in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Ss Log Mistake in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Serial-Studio/Serial-Studio --skill ss-log-mistake -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/ss-log-mistake in Serial-Studio/Serial-Studio) into .agents/skills/ss-log-mistake in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Ss Log Mistake 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 Serial-Studio/Serial-Studio --skill ss-log-mistake -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/ss-log-mistake, .gemini/skills/ss-log-mistake, .github/skills/ss-log-mistake and .opencode/skills/ss-log-mistake in your project.

What does Ss Log Mistake need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Ss Log Mistake is instructions for the agent only.

Does Ss Log Mistake access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Ss Log Mistake 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 Ss Log Mistake use?

Ss Log Mistake has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Ss Log Mistake use?

About 947 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Ss Log Mistake?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Ss Log Mistake: Install Anti-Slop Oxlint Rules (dmmulroy/anti-slop, 5.3k stars), Summarise Ecosystem Results (astral-sh/ruff, 50k stars), Minimizing Ty Ecosystem Changes (astral-sh/ruff, 50k stars) and Babysit PR To Pass CI (sgl-project/sglang, 37k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Ss Log Mistake?

Serial-Studio (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Serial-Studio/Serial-Studio, which has 7,225 GitHub stars. The repository holds 15 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: Serial-Studio/Serial-Studio on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.