Agent skill

Monitoring Terminal Errors

by spencerpauly in spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills

Watch running terminal processes for crashes and stack traces.

CC0-1.0Auto-check passedDevelopment

Install Monitoring Terminal Errors

skills CLI
$ npx skills add spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills --skill monitoring-terminal-errors -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills monitoring-terminal-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/spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/resources/monitoring-terminal-errors .claude/skills/monitoring-terminal-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
monitoring-terminal-errors
GitHub stars
842
Token cost
~561 tokens
SKILL.md length
277 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
57
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
CC0-1.0

At a glance

Watch running terminal processes for crashes and stack traces.

  • Works in 5 steps: Identify the Terminal → Read Terminal Output → Extract the Source Location → …
  • Tasks that involve Debugging
  • SKILL.md covers Workflow and Tips
  • Calls npm, pnpm and python

What it does

Monitoring Terminal Errors is an agent skill from spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills. Watch running terminal processes for crashes and stack traces. When an error appears, navigate to the failing file and line, diagnose, and fix it automatically.

Its SKILL.md is about 560 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 Debugging. It works with Python. The repository describes itself as: A curated list of awesome skills for Cursor. The licence is CC0-1.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Debugging

Example prompts

  • “/monitoring-terminal-errors”

Requirements

  • Python 3
  • Node.js

Workflow steps

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

  1. Identify the Terminal
  2. Read Terminal Output
  3. Extract the Source Location
  4. Navigate and Fix
  5. Loop

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 99cd265. 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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • npm
    • pnpm
    • python

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use npm and pnpm, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    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

Monitoring Terminal Errors loads about 561 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 47 tokens; SKILL.md has 277 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~47
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~561

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 spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills at commit 99cd265, republished under its CC0-1.0 licence (© spencerpauly). 277 words, ~561 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/monitoring-terminal-errors/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
monitoring-terminal-errors
description
Watch running terminal processes for crashes and stack traces. When an error appears, navigate to the failing file and line, diagnose, and fix it automatically.
user-invocable
true

Monitoring Terminal Errors

Continuously watch a running process (dev server, test runner, build) for errors and fix them as they appear.

Workflow

1. Identify the Terminal

List terminal files and find the one running the target process:

bash
head -n 10 <terminals_folder>/*.txt

Look for terminals running dev servers (npm run dev, pnpm dev, python manage.py runserver, etc.).

2. Read Terminal Output

Read the full terminal file content. Search for error patterns:

  • Stack traces: at <function> (<file>:<line>:<col>)
  • Node.js: Error:, TypeError:, ReferenceError:, ENOENT, ECONNREFUSED
  • Python: Traceback (most recent call last): followed by File "<path>", line <n>
  • React/Next.js: Unhandled Runtime Error, Error: ..., Module not found
  • Build errors: ERROR in, Failed to compile, SyntaxError
  • Vite: [vite] Internal server error:
  • TypeScript: error TS\d+:
3. Extract the Source Location

From the stack trace, extract:

  • File path
  • Line number
  • Error message

For Node.js: at functionName (/path/to/file.ts:42:10) For Python: File "/path/to/file.py", line 42, in function_name

4. Navigate and Fix
  1. Read the identified file around the error line
  2. Understand the error (missing import, type mismatch, undefined variable, etc.)
  3. Apply the fix
  4. Re-read the terminal file to confirm the server recovered (hot reload should pick it up)
5. Loop

If the server is still showing errors after the fix, repeat from step 2. Stop when:

  • The terminal shows a clean "compiled successfully" or equivalent
  • No new errors appear in the output
  • You've made 5 attempts without resolution (report to user)

Tips

  • Check for exit_code in the terminal file footer — if present, the process has crashed entirely and needs a restart
  • Some errors cascade — fix the first/root error and the rest often disappear
  • For HMR errors, the fix might just be saving the file again to trigger a rebuild

© spencerpauly, CC0-1.0. 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 resources/monitoring-terminal-errors of spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 99cd265

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Questions about Monitoring Terminal Errors

What does Monitoring Terminal Errors do?

Watch running terminal processes for crashes and stack traces. Monitoring Terminal Errors is an agent skill from spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills. Watch running terminal processes for crashes and stack traces.

When should I use Monitoring Terminal Errors?

Monitoring Terminal Errors fits situations like: tasks that involve Debugging.

How do I install Monitoring Terminal Errors in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills --skill monitoring-terminal-errors -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (resources/monitoring-terminal-errors in spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills) into .claude/skills/monitoring-terminal-errors in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Monitoring Terminal Errors in Codex?

Run `npx skills add spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills --skill monitoring-terminal-errors -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (resources/monitoring-terminal-errors in spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills) into .agents/skills/monitoring-terminal-errors in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Monitoring Terminal 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 spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills --skill monitoring-terminal-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/monitoring-terminal-errors, .gemini/skills/monitoring-terminal-errors, .github/skills/monitoring-terminal-errors and .opencode/skills/monitoring-terminal-errors in your project.

What does Monitoring Terminal Errors need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Monitoring Terminal Errors needs the command-line tools its instructions call (npm, pnpm and python). Our summary lists: Python 3; Node.js.

Does Monitoring Terminal Errors access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use npm, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Monitoring Terminal 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 Monitoring Terminal Errors use?

Monitoring Terminal Errors is published under the CC0-1.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Monitoring Terminal Errors use?

About 561 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Monitoring Terminal Errors?

spencerpauly (a GitHub user) maintains it in spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills, which has 842 GitHub stars. The repository holds 57 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 2, 2026.

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