radar-source-heallisted

Repair a source or tool that keeps failing — a broken/moved/stale feed, a 404, an empty result, a parse/JSON error — instead of logging "degraded" forever. Diagnose the failure class, find a working access path, and record the repaired method in SOURCES.md so future runs don't repeat it. Generalizes to any future source/tool breakage. Use whenever the lab sweep, pulse, or repo-watch hits a source that failed the same way before.
Neetx/ai-research-radar · ★ 2 · Data & Documents · score 65

Install: claude install-skill Neetx/ai-research-radar

# Source self-healing Logging "degraded" run after run is a failure of the radar, not of the source. If you logged the same breakage last run (check the recent `source_rotation` tail and SOURCES.md notes), **fix it this run** — don't just re-log it. ## When to heal (don't thrash) - One transient failure → log it, retry next run. Do not heal on a single blip. - The SAME failure twice (across runs), OR obviously degraded data now (empty feed, 404, JSON/parse error, a feed whose newest item is months old) → heal. ## Diagnose the failure class, then repair **Class A — broken / moved / stale feed or page** - Open the source's HTML index. Find the real feed from the page's `<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml|atom+xml">`, or try common paths: `/rss`, `/feed`, `/rss.xml`, `/atom.xml`, `/index.xml`, `/blog/feed.xml`. - Moved blog (org rebranded/changed domain) → search for the current URL and confirm it resolves with recent posts. - Stale feed (newest post months old while the org is clearly still active) → the org now posts elsewhere; find the live channel (a different domain, their HF org activity, a docs/changelog page) and switch to it. - No feed exists at all → set the method to "HTML index via Tavily extract" and note it, so the sweep stops hunting for a feed. **Class B — failing tool call on an otherwise-live source** - Vary the call shape: different `tvly` flags, `extract` vs `search`, `--extract-depth advanced`, smaller/larger scope. - Prefe