systematic-debugging SKILL.md skillA

systematic-debugging from dbc-oduffy/coordinator-claude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add dbc-oduffy/coordinator-claude/systematic-debugging@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
dbc-oduffy/coordinator-claude
Path
skills/systematic-debugging/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
7
Latest version
v1.0.0, committed Oct 17, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 10, 2026
Size
6,388 bytes
Repository stars
5
License
a license file GitHub does not identify

Root-cause one known bug: reproduce, trace, fix, verify.

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

# /systematic-debugging — Root-Cause Discipline for a Single Issue

Walk one identified failure to its root cause and fix it there. The fastest fix that *actually holds* starts by finding the cause: every wrong patch adds a variable and can mask the real one.

**This is the single-issue tool.** You have a specific symptom in hand. Siblings:
- **`/bug-sweep`** — searches the whole repo for unknown bugs (broad, discovery).
- **`/bug-blitz`** — grinds a known backlog of many bugs (broad, batch).
- **`/dogfood`** — exercises a newly-built thing until it works (broad, shakedown).
- **`/systematic-debugging`** — one known failure, traced to root cause and fixed (narrow, depth).

Holding more than one unrelated symptom: use a sibling. Exactly one: you're in the right place.

**Announce at start:** "Running `/systematic-debugging` on <symptom> — pinning the premise before I touch anything."

## When this earns its keep
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add dbc-oduffy/coordinator-claude/systematic-debugging@sha256:c6ec992bf6cbcaa5

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_3wt27izdd3ytoemg.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3wt27izdd3ytoemg)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Jul 10, 2026 and Oct 17, 2026, about one every 16 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.0.0 latest2026-10-17 2cbdbb2 6,388 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-02 19af750 8,540 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-02 23b42a5 8,472 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-09-22 abb039e 8,485 BA view · diff
git:20260816.6fabdd62026-08-16 6fabdd6 8,470 BA view · diff
git:20260806.c4a645d2026-08-06 c4a645d 8,329 BA view · diff
git:20260710.9a8d7b22026-07-10 9a8d7b2 9,080 BA 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 (6388 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

dbc-oduffy/coordinator-claude · 5 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3wt27izdd3ytoemg
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dbc-oduffy/coordinator-claude/systematic-debugging
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c6ec992bf6cbcaa56056ee040c51478897b801abc675d1cdc50c2ad13703b499

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