Systematic Debugging

Investigate bugs by reproducing, isolating, and validating a root-cause hypothesis before applying fixes.

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Systematic Debugging

Use this skill for test failures, regressions, flaky behavior, or confusing runtime errors.

Preferred Flow

  1. Read the full error and reproduce it consistently.
  2. Isolate the failing component or assumption.
  3. Compare broken behavior with a nearby working path.
  4. Form one root-cause hypothesis.
  5. Test the smallest change that proves or disproves it.

Guardrails

  • No random fix stacking.
  • If you do not understand the failure yet, keep gathering evidence.

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npx skillmds@latest add agentic-in/systematic-debugging