skill-doctor
Environment diagnostics — check providers, auth, config, hooks, scheduler, and more
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nyldn/claude-octopus /tmp/skill-doctor && cp -r /tmp/skill-doctor/.claude/skills/skill-doctor ~/.claude/skills/skill-doctorSKILL.md
# Environment Doctor
## Overview
Run environment diagnostics across 14 check categories. Doctor 2.0 identifies
misconfigured providers, stale loaded or cached plugin versions, invalid plugin
assembly, unwritable state, non-terminal run records, orphan process evidence,
broken hooks, and other issues that prevent Claude Octopus from working
correctly.
**Core principle:** Detect problems before they surface in workflows.
---
## When to Use
**Use this skill when:**
- Something isn't working and you're not sure why
- After installing or updating the plugin
- Before a demo or important workflow run
- Checking if providers are properly authenticated
- Verifying scheduler, hooks, or skills are correctly configured
**Do NOT use for:**
- First-time setup (use `/octo:setup` — it guides configuration)
- Project workflow status (use `/octo:status`)
- Debugging application code (use `/octo:debug`)
---
## The Process
### Step 1: Resolve Plugin Root and Run Full Diagnostics
Use this resolver before running Octopus scripts. Do not assume
`~/.claude-octopus/plugin` exists; Windows Git Bash installs may not support the
stable symlink. Run this as a single Bash call.
```bash
OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-}"
if [[ -z "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT" || ! -x "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" ]]; then
OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT="${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin"
fi
if [[ ! -x "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" ]] && command -v octopus >/dev/null 2>&1; then
OCTO_BIN="$(command -v octopus)"
OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$OCTO_BIN")/.." && pwd)"
fi
if [[ ! -x "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" ]]; then
OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT="$(
find "${HOME}/.claude/plugins" -type f -path "*/scripts/orchestrate.sh" -print 2>/dev/null \
| sed 's#/scripts/orchestrate.sh$##' \
| { grep -E '(nyldn-plugins|claude-octopus|/octo(/[0-9]|$))' || true; } \
| sort \
| tail -1
)"
fi
if [[ -z "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT" || ! -x "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" ]]; then
echo "Claude Octopus plugin root not found. Reinstall the octo plugin, then retry doctor diagnostics."
exit 1
fi
mkdir -p "${HOME}/.claude-octopus"
_octo_stable="${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin"
if [[ ! -L "$_octo_stable" ]] || [[ "$(cd "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT" 2>/dev/null && pwd -P)" != "$(cd "$_octo_stable" 2>/dev/null && pwd -P)" ]]; then
[[ -L "$_octo_stable" || -f "$_octo_stable" ]] && rm -f "$_octo_stable" 2>/dev/null || true
ln -s "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT" "$_octo_stable" 2>/dev/null || true
fi
unset _octo_stable
export OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT
bash "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" doctor --verbose
```
This runs all 14 check categories and displays a formatted report.
### Step 2: Filter by Category (Optional)
If the user asks about a specific area, reuse the resolver from Step 1 and
replace its final `doctor --verbose` invocation with one of these lines. These
are replacement lines, not standalone shell calls; `OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT` must be
resolved in the same Bash call.
```bash
bash "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" doctor providers
bash "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" doctor providers --live
bash "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" doctor companions
bash "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" doctor auth
bash "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" doctor config
bash "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" doctor updates
bash "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" doctor state
bash "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" doctor smoke
bash "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" doctor hooks
bash "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" doctor scheduler
bash "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" doctor skills
bash "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" doctor conflicts
bash "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" doctor agents
bash "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" doctor recurrence
bash "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" doctor cache
```
### Step 3: Check & Install Dependencies
Reuse the Step 1 resolver and replace its final invocation with the dependency
checker to find missing CLIs, statusline config, and recommended plugins:
```bash
bash "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/install-deps.sh" check
```
If the check reports missing deps, offer to install them:
```bash
bash "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/install-deps.sh" install
```
This auto-installs Codex CLI, jq, and the statusline resolver. Antigravity CLI (`agy`) setup is detected and reported with install guidance. For plugins (claude-mem, document-skills), it prints `/plugin install` commands the user must run manually.
### Step 4: Verbose or JSON Output
As above, run these as the final line of the Step 1 resolver call:
```bash
# Detailed output for troubleshooting
bash "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" doctor --verbose
# Machine-readable output
bash "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" doctor --json
# Combine: specific category + verbose
bash "$OCTO_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" doctor auth --verbose
```
Doctor 2.0 JSON always uses this outer contract:
```json
{
"schema_version": "10.0",
"summary": {"passed": 0, "warnings": 0, "failures": 0, "exit_code": 0},
"results": []
}
```
A check with status `fail` makes both `summary.exit_code` and the process exit
code `1`, while stdout remains valid JSON. Warnings remain structured but do not
make the command fail. Unknown flags, unknown categories, and multiple category
arguments are usage errors with exit code `2`; do not retry them as full scans.
The `providers --live` variant is an explicit, bounded AGY capability check. It
uses one small real request to verify the CLI version, live model catalog and
keyring authentication, configured model, and print-mode dispatch. Do not run
it from startup hooks or routine preflight. If its catalog/auth stage fails,
tell the user to launch plain `agy` and complete the browser sign-in; AGY has no
separate login shell subcommand. On macOS keyring errors, direct themBackend architect. Delegate only when the user explicitly starts an Octopus workflow.
Cloud architect. Delegate only when the user explicitly starts an Octopus workflow.
Code reviewer. Delegate only when the user explicitly starts an Octopus workflow.
Database architect. Delegate only when the user explicitly starts an Octopus workflow.
Debugger. Delegate only when the user explicitly starts an Octopus workflow.
Documentation architect. Delegate only when the user explicitly starts an Octopus workflow.
Frontend developer. Delegate only when the user explicitly starts an Octopus workflow.
Performance engineer. Delegate only when the user explicitly starts an Octopus workflow.