windbg-kernel-lock-deadlock-triage SKILL.md skillA
windbg-kernel-lock-deadlock-triage 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-kernel-lock-deadlock-triage@git:20261007.790b577Pins git:20261007.790b577 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-kernel-lock-deadlock-triage/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261007.790b577, committed Oct 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 7, 2026
- Size
- 4,297 bytes
- Repository stars
- 475
- License
- MIT
Use when kernel threads block on driver synchronization or Verifier reports a lock-order violation; build an owner/waiter graph. Not for treating every watchdog stop as a deadlock or listing every lock type with !locks.
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
# Kernel Lock and Deadlock Triage **Load `windbg-diagnostic-method` first** if it is not already loaded in this conversation, and apply it throughout for evidence ranking, hypothesis testing, confidence calibration, independent review, and report validation. This skill adds the bug-family-specific commands and evidence requirements. ## Detection Use kernel thread stacks, synchronization-object evidence, and Driver Verifier deadlock records. A watchdog bugcheck can indicate CPU/DPC progress failures, not necessarily a lock cycle. Establish the actual waits before choosing this workflow. ## Workflow ### 1. Gather owners and waiters ```text !locks !thread <ethread-address> !process 0 7 ``` `!locks` enumerates ERESOURCE information. It is not an inventory of all pushlocks, fast mutexes, and spinlocks. For other primitives use documented primitive-specific inspection when available, matching symbols for your driver, its source, and recorded acquisition evidence. State missing owners explicitly. ### 2. Inspect recorded lock-order evidence If Driver Verifier deadlock detection was enabled and the dump contains its records: ```text !deadlock 1 ``` …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add microsoft/win-dev-skills/windbg-kernel-lock-deadlock-triage@sha256:0cd98bdb7c961649The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261007.790b577, 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_g563l32wnutj6os6)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Oct 7, 2026.
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| git:20261007.790b577 latest | 2026-10-07 | 790b577 | 4,297 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.e1050cd | 2026-10-07 | e1050cd | 4,168 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4297 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_g563l32wnutj6os6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=microsoft/win-dev-skills/windbg-kernel-lock-deadlock-triage GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0cd98bdb7c961649718be26dba162685e42752b1feaa78bc18080a25d46c5456
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