📮 dead-letter — Failed Task Triage & Capture

Capture a failed or blocked task before context clears. Categorizes failure modes into a 9-part taxonomy, distinguishes transient from permanent failures, verifies actual state before any retry, preserves partial work and orphaned resources, and generates either a bounded autonomous retry prompt or an escalation decision point. Recovery follows a strict ordered sequence — classify → decide → precondition → fix → verify-against-baseline → close — tracked step-by-step in the record so a retry resumes exactly where recovery stopped. At close-out, deterministic failures can be converted into a repro test pack: the capture that documents a failure becomes the regression test that prevents its recurrence. The status sweep clusters open records by root cause — repeated failures across different tasks surface as one systemic finding with one fix, not a storm of individual retries.

Modes

Every invocation resolves to exactly one mode. Load only the matched reference:

When to Use