paperclipai 4-phase root cause investigation — includes root-cause-tracing, defense-in-depth, and condition-based-waiting techniques. Find the cause before proposing a fix.
Systematic Debugging
Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes
Systematic Debugging by paperclipai · b173a05
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---name: systematic-debuggingdescription: Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes---4-phase root cause investigation — includes root-cause-tracing, defense-in-depth, and condition-based-waiting techniques. Find the cause before proposing a fix.
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