dreikanter/honeybadger

Honeybadger

Read errors from Honeybadger via the hb CLI. The auth token lives in fnox, so prefix every command with fnox exec --.

Critical gotchas

• Use hb (/opt/homebrew/bin/hb), NOT honeybadger. The honeybadger gem CLI only reports data; hb has the Data API for reading faults.
• Reading faults needs HONEYBADGER_AUTH_TOKEN, provided by fnox. Always wrap: fnox exec -- hb .... Run from a dir where fnox resolves the token (user's global config at ~/.config/fnox/config.toml provides it).
• --project-id is required for fault commands. Resolve it from the current repo (see below) rather than hardcoding one.

Pick the project from the current repo

Before running fault commands, infer which Honeybadger project the user means from the repo you're in:

1. Get the repo name: basename -s .git "$(git remote get-url origin)" (e.g. github.com/username/example → example). Fall back to the working dir name if there's no remote.
2. Run fnox exec -- hb projects list — the first ID column holds the --project-id value. Match the repo name against the NAME column case-insensitively.
3. On a match, use that project's ID for all fault commands and tell the user which project you focused on (e.g. "Using the example project").
4. No match → ask which project, or list them for the user to choose.

Quick reference

fnox exec -- hb projects list                                   # list projects + fault counts
fnox exec -- hb faults list --project-id <ID> --limit 15        # recent faults (default order=recent)
fnox exec -- hb faults list --project-id <ID> --order frequent
fnox exec -- hb faults list --project-id <ID> -q "NoMethodError"    # search/filter
fnox exec -- hb faults get      --project-id <ID> --id <FAULT_ID>   # detail + backtrace
fnox exec -- hb faults notices  --project-id <ID> --id <FAULT_ID>   # individual occurrences
fnox exec -- hb faults counts   --project-id <ID>
fnox exec -- hb faults affected-users --project-id <ID> --id <FAULT_ID>

• --limit max is 25; --order is recent (default) or frequent.
• recent orders by last-seen regardless of status, so the list mixes resolved and unresolved faults. There's no server-side resolved filter — check the RESOLVED column (✓) and filter client-side if you only want open problems.
• The table view truncates long/multi-line messages and wraps badly. Use -o json whenever a message is cut off or you need the full backtrace.
• When reporting a fault to the user, link it to its web page. The -o json output carries a url field; otherwise build it as https://app.honeybadger.io/projects/<ID>/faults/<FAULT_ID>.
• Other namespaces: hb deployments, hb insights, hb uptime, hb check-ins. Run fnox exec -- hb <cmd> --help for flags.

Typical workflow

1. Resolve the project ID from the current repo (see above).
2. fnox exec -- hb faults list --project-id <id> to see what's broken.
3. Grab the unresolved fault IDs and hb faults get --id <id> for the backtrace.
4. Cross-reference the backtrace with the codebase to find the root cause.
5. When citing a fault, include its Honeybadger web URL (see above) so the user can open the report.