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diagnose from pitimon/8-habit-ai-dev is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add pitimon/8-habit-ai-dev/diagnose@git:20261003.c80149b

Pins git:20261003.c80149b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
pitimon/8-habit-ai-dev
Path
plugin/skills/diagnose/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
7
Latest version
git:20261003.c80149b, committed Oct 3, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 8, 2026
Size
11,975 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Active bug investigation discipline — 6-phase methodology covering feedback-loop, reproduce, hypothesise, instrument, fix-with-regression-test, and cleanup-with-post-mortem. Use when investigating a hard bug or performance regression that doesn't have an obvious root cause. Triggers: "diagnose", "debug this", "investigate this bug", "reproduce the failure", "why is X failing". Read-only guidance — guides the human through systematic investigation rather than auto-fixing. Refuses to skip Phase…

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

# `/diagnose` — Active Bug Investigation (6 Phases)

**Habits**: H1 (Be Proactive — prevent recurrence, not just patch the symptom) + H5 (Seek First to Understand — reproduce before fix)

## When to Use

- A bug is reported and the root cause is **not** obvious
- A performance regression appeared; you need to localize what changed
- Tests passed locally but failed in CI, or vice versa
- A feature works for some inputs and fails for others — you need to find the boundary
- A previous fix didn't hold; the bug returned in a different form

This skill enforces the discipline **build a fast feedback loop before you guess**. Documented friction: a lesson in `~/.claude/lessons/2026-04-12-compression-worker-420-investigation.md` notes that a 30-minute log-analysis session could have been a 5-minute SQL-comparison session if Phase 1 had been done first.

## When to Skip

- Single-line bug with obvious root cause (typo, wrong constant, off-by-one in plain sight)
- Lint/format errors with a clear fix
- Rename refactors and dependency bumps with passing CI
- Stack trace points to a single line that you can read and immediately understand
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add pitimon/8-habit-ai-dev/diagnose@sha256:077ce26d752c2042

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261003.c80149b, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Jun 8, 2026 and Oct 3, 2026, about one every 19 days.

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git:20260608.eea57642026-06-08 eea5764 11,545 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 (11975 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

pitimon/8-habit-ai-dev · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_53rymshgln5knat3
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pitimon/8-habit-ai-dev/diagnose
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/077ce26d752c2042b02992ec7ca655bd00cb8708dd1bf59a9cdd1045db26ba33

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