Common debugging

Skill ComeOnOliver/skillshub/skills/HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard/common-debugging

Systematic troubleshooting using the Scientific Method. Use when debugging crashes, tracing errors, diagnosing unexpected behavior, or investigating exceptions. (triggers: debug, fix bug, crash, error, exception, troubleshooting)From its SKILL.md

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Debugging Expert

Priority: P1 (OPERATIONAL)

Systematic, evidence-based troubleshooting. Do not guess; prove.

🔬 The Scientific Method

OBSERVE: Gather data. What exactly is happening?
- Logs, Stack Traces, Screenshots, Steps to Reproduce.
HYPOTHESIZE: Formulate a theory. "I think X is causing Y because Z."
EXPERIMENT: Test the theory.
- Create a reproduction case.
- Change one variable at a time to validate the hypothesis.
FIX: Implement the solution once the root cause is proven.
VERIFY: Ensure the fix works and doesn't introduce regressions.

🚫 Anti-Patterns

Shotgun Debugging: Randomly changing things hoping it works.
Console Log Spam: Leaving print/console.log in production code.
Fixing Symptoms: masking the error (e.g., try-catch without handling) instead of fixing the root cause.

🛠 Best Practices

Diff Diagnosis: What changed since it last worked?
Minimal Repro: Create the smallest possible code snippet that reproduces the issue.
Rubber Ducking: Explain the code line-by-line to an inanimate object (or the agent).
Binary Search: Comment out half the code to isolate the failing section.

📚 References

Bug Report Template

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