Agent skill · data analytics · jeremylongshore
assemblyai-common-errors
Analyze and triage AssemblyAI REST, transcript, Streaming v3, webhook, and LLM Gateway failures without leaking customer content. Use when an integration errors or stalls. Trigger with "AssemblyAI error" or "failed transcript".
Why this skill is useful
Provides specific troubleshooting commands and solutions for common AssemblyAI errors that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires assemblyai, ffmpeg installed locally. Requires assemblyai account access. About 2k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 2,604 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
AssemblyAI Failure Triage Overview Analyze and triage failures by contract layer without exposing customer speech. Treat live data, credentials, spend, and destructive state as separately governed boundaries. Prerequisites The target repository or integration path and the requested operator outcome. The AssemblyAI project, environment, region, data classification, and accountable owner. Current first-party documentation plus credentials only for a narrowly approved live check. Current Contract Transport status, transcript terminal status, WebSocket messages or close codes, webhook response behavior, and gateway results are separate failure layers. A 429 can represent shared account request or concurrency pressure; more keys do not multiply account capacity. Authentication For live work, inject ASSEMBLYAIAPIKEY from an approved secret manager and send the raw value only in the AssemblyAI Authorization header to the configured first-party host. Never print, commit, place in a URL, or expose it to an untrusted client. Callback secrets and temporary streaming tokens are separate credentials. Instructions 1. Capture environment, region, operation, safe ID, timestamp, and last state. 2. Separate network, auth, validation, quota, processing, streaming, callback, and gateway failures. 3. Reproduce with synthetic input whenever possible. 4. Compare model and parameters to current mode-specific docs. 5. Collect only safe status, code, timing, and request metadata. 6. Classify retry, input correction, capacity action, or escalation. Tool Discipline Use Read, Glob, and Grep to inspect repository code, configuration, fixtures, and evidence. Use Write and Edit only for approved implementation or documentation changes. Do not call AssemblyAI, upload audio, open a streaming session, mint a token, replay a callback, deploy, rotate a key, or delete a transcript merely because this skill was invoked. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills jeremylongshore/assemblyai-common-errors