debugging-diagnosis SKILL.md skillA

debugging-diagnosis from stark-ai-de/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add stark-ai-de/agent-skills/debugging-diagnosis@v0.1.0

Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
stark-ai-de/agent-skills
Path
incubator/skills/engineering-workflows/debugging-diagnosis/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
v0.1.0, committed May 21, 2026
Size
3,248 bytes
Repository stars
8
License
Apache-2.0

Diagnose and fix bugs through reproduction, minimization, hypotheses, instrumentation, targeted fixes, and regression coverage. Use when the user reports failing behavior, a broken test, runtime error, flaky workflow, or asks for debugging before implementation.

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 Diagnosis

## Goal

Find the smallest proven cause of a bug, fix it, and leave regression coverage or clear validation evidence.

## When to use

- The user reports a bug, failing test, runtime error, broken workflow, or flaky behavior.
- A prior fix was speculative and needs a reproducible diagnosis.
- The task needs root cause analysis before a code change.

## When not to use

- The user asks for a pure design plan with no failing behavior.
- The task is a known mechanical edit with an obvious validation command.
- The user asks for a broad repo audit rather than a specific failure.

## Inputs to inspect

- Exact error text, logs, screenshots, failing test output, or reproduction steps.
- Recent diffs and `git status --short`.
- Relevant package scripts, test commands, CI workflow, issue context, and domain docs if present.
- Existing tests around the failing behavior.

## Workflow

1. Establish the failure in the current environment or state what cannot be reproduced.
2. Minimize the reproduction to the smallest command, input, route, component, or test case.
3. Form one or more falsifiable hypotheses and inspect only the files needed to test them.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add stark-ai-de/agent-skills/debugging-diagnosis@sha256:48199455672a100e

The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, 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.

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 21, 2026.

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v0.1.0 latest2026-05-21 feebcf2 3,248 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 (3248 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

stark-ai-de/agent-skills · 8 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hbfglyl6qx4ws3uh
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=stark-ai-de/agent-skills/debugging-diagnosis
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/48199455672a100e08849383447351da0fe8c59dddb352f4e4f3d1165bbaa8ea

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