doctor

name	doctor
description	Diagnose and repair your TinyFish setup — MCP registration, auth, and connectivity. Runs the TinyFish CLI's own doctor for the config checks, then does the one thing the CLI cannot — proving this harness can actually reach TinyFish. Run when TinyFish tools fail, return auth errors, or after an install that did not verify cleanly.

TinyFish Doctor

tinyfish doctor (CLI 0.22+) owns the diagnosis. Your job is to run it, do the one check it structurally cannot do, and act on what comes back. Never hand-edit config files — every repair goes through the CLI, which carries backup and merge rigor.

0. No shell?

Sandboxed surfaces (Claude.ai, Desktop, Cowork) have no npx. If you cannot run commands, skip to step 2 — it is the more valuable check anyway — then give the user the command from step 1 to run themselves.

1. Run doctor

npx -y @tiny-fish/cli@latest doctor --harness claude-code

JSON on stdout: schema_version, cli_version, ok_harnesses, ok_cli, checks[], harnesses[], repairs[].

Read schema_version before the fields. This skill describes 3 (CLI 0.22+). The command pins @latest, so a newer CLI can hand you a shape you do not know: above 3, stop reading fields, show the user --pretty output instead, and rely on step 2 for the verdict. Below 3 a single ok replaces the two verdicts and checks[] carry no scope, so read only checks[] and the exit code there.

Two verdicts, not one. ok_harnesses answers whether the user's agents can reach TinyFish; ok_cli answers whether the CLI's own credential works. checks[].scope (harness, cli, info) says which one a check counts toward, and only the harness scope moves the exit code — ok_cli: false beside exit 0 is a real state, not a contradiction. Report it as the CLI's own credential, not as a broken harness.

Exit	Meaning
0	no harness check failed — ok_cli can still be false
1	a harness check failed — read checks[]
2	doctor could not run; stdout is empty, the reason is on stderr

A warn is not a failure and does not move the exit code: doctor is saying it could not check something, not that it is broken. A registration warn whose detail says the key was not readable, or was not verified, means the key exists but doctor could not test its value — every Codex install, and any harness whose config redacts the header. Never repair on a warn, prove it in step 2.

--pretty only when showing a human the list. Never put --debug output in a report — it is the one channel carrying raw stacks and absolute paths.

2. Prove the harness reach — the part doctor cannot do

harnesses[].proves_harness_reach is false whenever doctor could not prove that this harness authenticates. For OAuth harnesses it is always false, because the CLI cannot borrow the harness's token. You are the only one who can close that gap.

--harness claude-code narrows harnesses[] to exactly one entry, so there is no ambiguity about which harness it describes.

Count the TinyFish servers first. A plugin, a CLI-written entry, and an account-level connector can all be registered at once, all pointing at the same endpoint. doctor inspects only the one named tinyfish and cannot see its siblings. Note which server it reported on.

Then call search once with a cheap query, and note which server answered — the tool namespace names it.

What happens	What it means
Results, from the server doctor reported on	Setup works end to end, whatever auth_mode says
Results, but from a different TinyFish server	Proves nothing about the flagged registration. Report the working server and the flagged one as still unverified
Auth error, but doctor says registered: yes	Registration exists; the credential behind it is broken
TinyFish tools absent entirely	Server not loaded in this session — the user must restart the agent

What a registration: pass proves depends on schema_version. On 2 and 3 an API-key registration was tested on the wire, so a stale key header is already a fail with a connect repair beside it. On 1, and on every OAuth or auth_mode: unknown registration at any version, pass is presence only: doctor read config, not the wire, and a stale key still passes while every call 401s. Neither version says anything about siblings, and a healthy sibling will answer cheerfully while the broken one stays broken.

3. Repair

Run only commands that appear in repairs[], and show command before running it. Keep the order they arrive in: action: auth-login comes before action: connect because connect writes whichever key is stored, so a dead one has to be replaced first.

• Terminal with the user present → npx -y @tiny-fish/cli@latest doctor --fix --harness claude-code
• Non-interactive → npx -y @tiny-fish/cli@latest doctor --fix --yes; only unattended_safe: true repairs run and the rest return as skipped. Never report a skipped repair as a fix.
• unattended_safe: false → hand it to the user, do not run it. Expect most repairs to be false: auth login always is, and connect <harness> is unsafe for every harness except Cursor — and on 2 Cursor only while the CLI's own authenticated call passes, since a revoked key still resolves as a credential. Read the field, do not infer it.
• OAuth credential failures have no CLI repair: tell the user to run /mcp, pick tinyfish, and sign in.

Re-run step 2 after any repair. Success means showing the real search result — the user should see their agent touch the live web.

4. Still broken

Attach doctor's stdout JSON verbatim. It is schema-versioned and already redaction-safe: undeclared fields are stripped on parse and every message is authored rather than raw. Do not build your own report, add fields, or paste config contents. On exit 2 there is no JSON — say so rather than filing an empty report.

Then offer /tinyfish:feedback to file it.