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debugging-and-error-recovery from gastonchevarria/god-mode is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add gastonchevarria/god-mode/debugging-and-error-recovery@git:20261014.522e28a

Pins git:20261014.522e28a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: gastonchevarria/god-mode
Path: plugins/god-mode-core/skills/debugging-and-error-recovery/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20261014.522e28a, committed Oct 14, 2026
First version recorded: Sep 26, 2026
Size: 10,528 bytes
Repository stars: 3
License: MIT

Finds the root cause of a failure systematically instead of guessing. Use when tests fail, builds break, behavior doesn't match expectations or an unexpected error appears.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Debugging and Error Recovery

## Overview

Systematic debugging with structured triage. When something breaks, stop adding features, preserve evidence, and follow a structured process to find and fix the root cause. Guessing wastes time. The triage checklist works for test failures, build errors, runtime bugs, and production incidents.

## When to Use

- Tests fail after a code change
- The build breaks
- Runtime behavior doesn't match expectations
- A bug report arrives
- An error appears in logs or console
- Something worked before and stopped working

## The Stop-the-Line Rule

When anything unexpected happens:

```
1. STOP adding features or making changes
2. PRESERVE evidence (error output, logs, repro steps)
3. DIAGNOSE using the triage checklist
4. FIX the root cause
5. GUARD against recurrence
6. RESUME only after verification passes
```

**Don't push past a failing test or broken build to work on the next feature.** Errors compound. A bug in Step 3 that goes unfixed makes Steps 4-6 wrong.

## The Triage Checklist

Work through these steps in order. Do not skip steps.

### Step 1: Reproduce
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add gastonchevarria/god-mode/debugging-and-error-recovery@sha256:6f58e43a5a859078

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.522e28a, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_2o735m64myvob7uy.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_2o735m64myvob7uy)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 26, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 19 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261014.522e28a latest	2026-10-14	522e28a	10,528 B	A	view · diff
git:20260926.941aa31	2026-09-26	941aa31	10,603 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10528 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

gastonchevarria/god-mode · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2o735m64myvob7uy
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gastonchevarria/god-mode/debugging-and-error-recovery
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6f58e43a5a85907871add501c16e707306705278626a497c9fd81187bc34199d

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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