# Confirm Failures Are Causally Linked To The Task Before Reportin

> confirm failures are causally linked to the task before reporting rejection

- Skill: `zaxbysauce/confirm-failures-are-causally-linked-to-the-task-before-repo` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add zaxbysauce/confirm-failures-are-causally-linked-to-the-task-before-repo`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/zaxbysauce/confirm-failures-are-causally-linked-to-the-task-before-repo/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Productivity
- Author: zaxbysauce (https://skillmd.com/u/zaxbysauce)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/zaxbysauce/confirm-failures-are-causally-linked-to-the-task-before-repo

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# confirm failures are causally linked to the task before reporting rejection

## Trigger

- (no explicit trigger metadata; cluster derived from category/tags)

## Required Procedure

- confirm failures are causally linked to the task before reporting rejection
- separate pre-existing failures from task-introduced regressions in test reports

## Forbidden Shortcuts

- (none recorded)

## Delegation Template

When delegating a task affected by this skill, include:

```
SKILLS: file:.opencode/skills/generated/confirm-failures-are-causally-linked-to-the-task-before-reportin/SKILL.md
```

## Reviewer Checks

- Verify each required action above appears in the diff.

## Test Engineer Checks

- Add or update tests covering the trigger condition and the forbidden shortcut.

## Source Knowledge IDs

- 820286b2-e40c-40f9-95d0-5ae2191c904f — When test_engineer reports failures, verify whether they are pre-existing and unrelated to the task scope before rejecting coder work — unrelated failures should not block task completion.