troubleshooting-application-failures
An agent skill by aws, from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. Tags: analysis, aws, debugging, logs, troubleshooting.
What it does
Troubleshoots failing applications by discovering and analyzing CloudWatch log groups to identify error patterns, root causes, and actionable solutions. Use when an application is experiencing failures and log-based diagnosis is needed.
Install
With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill troubleshooting-application-failuresOr copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws
cp -r agent-toolkit-for-aws/skills/specialized-skills/operations-skills/troubleshooting-application-failures ~/.claude/skills/troubleshooting-application-failuresSafety box score
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Source
- Repository
- aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (all skills from this repository)
- Path
- skills/specialized-skills/operations-skills/troubleshooting-application-failures/SKILL.md
- Branch
- main
- Updated
- 2026-09-19
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