Integration-test skill only. Invoke at the start of every troubleshooting session before other diagnostics to confirm the NIKA skill library is loaded.
Identify ACL and firewall faults from nftables or iptables rules. Use when traffic is selectively blocked by protocol or service (ARP, ICMP, HTTP, DNS, BGP, or packet-size filtering).
Reference list of signals that look suspicious but are normal testbed behavior. Consult before promoting any observation to a symptom.
Identify BGP routing faults — ASN misconfiguration, missing route advertisement, prefix hijacking, blackhole route leak. Use when reachability failures follow BGP-routed paths, BGP sessions fail to establish, or expected prefixes are missing from peers.
Parse oversized MCP tool output. When a tool returns "Output has been saved to <file>.txt" because the result exceeded Claude Code's token limit, run this skill's parser instead of re-reading the file in chunks. Covers `get_reachability` on large topologies and `service_snapshot` on labs with many published hostnames.
Identify DHCP server-side faults — service down, missing subnet declaration, spoofed gateway or DNS pushed by the server. Use when one or more hosts cannot obtain a lease, or hosts received DHCP-supplied values that look wrong.
Broad-search escalation toolbox. Enter when the blind start surfaces no symptom. Run phases in order, and exit the moment a helper surfaces an anomaly.
Identify DNS server-side faults — wrong record, daemon down, port 53 filtered, or injected lookup latency. Use when hostname-based access fails or is slow while direct-IP access to the same target works.