windbg-diagnostic-method SKILL.md skillA
windbg-diagnostic-method from microsoft/win-dev-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add microsoft/win-dev-skills/windbg-diagnostic-method@git:20261007.e1050cdPins git:20261007.e1050cd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- microsoft/win-dev-skills
- Path
plugins/windbg/skills/windbg-diagnostic-method/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261007.e1050cd, committed Oct 7, 2026
- Size
- 7,775 bytes
- Repository stars
- 475
- License
- MIT
Use with every WinDbg plugin investigation to apply evidence-first reasoning, confidence calibration, contrarian review, structured reporting, and deterministic validation. Not a bug-family-specific triage skill.
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
# WinDbg Diagnostic Method Apply this method alongside the bug-family-specific skill selected for an investigation. Pattern matches route the investigation; they do not prove the root cause. ## Evidence ladder Prefer direct evidence in this order: 1. Faulting instruction/context, bugcheck or exception parameters, and resource owners/waiters from the actual dump or trace. 2. Matching symbols and the user's authorized source for the involved build. 3. Allocation/free, Verifier, IRP, lock, ETW, WCT, or TTD history captured for the same failure. 4. Controlled reproduction and instrumentation. 5. Pattern guidance as a hypothesis only. Never claim commands, source access, or artifacts that are unavailable in the session. ## First-pass normalization - Confirm process dump versus kernel dump and target architecture/build. - Load public Windows symbols and matching symbols for user/vendor modules. - Record missing pages, symbols, related-process dumps, trace scope, and tool availability. - User-mode exception: `.exr -1`, `.ecxr`, stack, and registers. - Kernel bugcheck: `.bugcheck`, `!analyze -v`, then documented context/trap recovery for that code. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add microsoft/win-dev-skills/windbg-diagnostic-method@sha256:d5d248c3f877a865The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261007.e1050cd, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3l477du5cmrzerpn)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 7, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7775 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
microsoft/win-dev-skills · 475 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3l477du5cmrzerpn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=microsoft/win-dev-skills/windbg-diagnostic-method GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d5d248c3f877a86514d068c7e554a30c78b580a98488a3e394f462d893c8b9fc
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.