rudder-instrumentation-debugging SKILL.md skillA
rudder-instrumentation-debugging from rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills/rudder-instrumentation-debugging@git:20261027.dca7fe1Pins git:20261027.dca7fe1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills
- Path
plugins/rudder-core/skills/rudder-instrumentation-debugging/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261027.dca7fe1, committed Oct 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 22, 2026
- Size
- 9,111 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Diagnoses and fixes validation errors, schema issues, and instrumentation problems. Use when debugging validation errors, schema issues, or instrumentation problems.
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
# Instrumentation Debugging
This skill teaches how to diagnose and fix common **validation errors**, **schema issues**, and **instrumentation problems** when working with RudderStack data catalog and tracking plans.
For events sent by the AI SDKs (`ai_*`, `mcp_*`), use `rudder-ai-events-verify`, which checks them against the AI events spec.
## Debugging Workflow
```
┌─────────────────┐
│ Error Occurs │
└────────┬────────┘
▼
┌─────────────────┐
│ Identify Type │ ← Validation? Schema? Runtime?
└────────┬────────┘
▼
┌─────────────────┐
│ Locate Source │ ← Which file? Which line?
└────────┬────────┘
▼
┌─────────────────┐
│ Understand Rule │ ← What does the validation expect?
└────────┬────────┘
▼
┌─────────────────┐
│ Fix & Validate │ ← Edit, then rudder-cli validate
└─────────────────┘
```
## Common Validation Errors
### Error: Reference Not Found
```
Error: data-catalog/events/product-viewed.yaml:15
Referenced property 'urn:rudder:property/proudct_id' not found
```
**Cause:** Typo in URN or property doesn't exist.
**Fix:**
```yaml
# Wrong
- property: "urn:rudder:property/proudct_id" # Typo!
# Right
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills/rudder-instrumentation-debugging@sha256:664032a0ad53c547The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261027.dca7fe1, 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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| git:20261027.dca7fe1 latest | 2026-10-27 | dca7fe1 | 9,111 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261027.bb53b9e | 2026-10-27 | bb53b9e | 8,983 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260622.dea2d03 | 2026-06-22 | dea2d03 | 8,876 B | A | view |
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Source
rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hntfyc2vs5vmcbt4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills/rudder-instrumentation-debugging GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/664032a0ad53c547c0021acfcdb19416a946a3a8d208ad6611b03f3a8ba41047
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