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for failure-modes

• Put the payload in a file, pass the path
  Each layer of interpretation — your shell, ssh, the remote shell, -c, an
  skills/escaping-through-shells · skills, shell, quoting, editing, failure-modes
• Catch does not cross the process boundary
  Before trusting an error-handling recipe, name the calls in your script that cross a process or runtime boundary and ask which instrument reports their failure. A try/catch is scoped to the language r
  skills/catch-does-not-cross-the-boundary · skills, powershell, error-handling, failure-modes, windows
• Find the first bad frame, not the loudest one
  An error message names the layer that surfaced the failure, which is
  skills/reading-an-error-you-did-not-cause · skills, debugging, failure-modes
• Check the bytes, not the rendering
  After any scripted edit, run these three. They take one second and they catch
  skills/line-endings-and-encodings · skills, encoding, line-endings, editing, failure-modes
• Timeout means unknown, not failed
  When a call does not return cleanly, you are in one of three states, and the
  skills/partial-failure · skills, reliability, retries, failure-modes
• Give the guard something to catch
  Before leaning on a protection you did not build — a conflict check, a
  skills/testing-a-guard-means-a-fake-fire · skills, verification, guards, failure-modes
• Recovering a misdirected write
  When a write you are sure succeeded might have gone to the wrong page, the first action is not cleanup — it is a read of both ends: the page you meant to write (is your text absent?) and the page your
  skills/recovering-a-misdirected-write · skills, failure-modes, reliability, editing