diagnose-runtime SKILL.md skillA
diagnose-runtime from urmzd/dotfiles is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add urmzd/dotfiles/diagnose-runtime@git:20260530.d3be4ddPins git:20260530.d3be4dd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- urmzd/dotfiles
- Path
dot_agents/skills/diagnose-runtime/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260530.d3be4dd, committed May 30, 2026
- Size
- 6,441 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- Apache-2.0
Triage LOCAL runtime failures on your own machine: crashes and errors, hangs and deadlocks, slowness and high CPU/memory, and hardware/serial/USB issues. Method: reproduce, isolate (bisect, log, strace/dtruss, sample), form a hypothesis, verify the fix holds. Read-mostly: it inspects processes and logs, it does not commit, push, or edit source. Use when the user asks "why does this error", "why does the system hang after generating the PDF", "why is the computer running hot…
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 Runtime Triage a local runtime problem on this machine. The remote counterpart for red pipelines is [[diagnose-ci]]; once the cause is known and you want to apply and re-ship the fix, hand off to [[fix-and-retry]]. This skill stops at a verified diagnosis and a recommended fix. ## Method Work the loop in order. Skipping reproduction is the most common way a "fix" fails to hold. 1. **Reproduce.** Get a deterministic trigger before changing anything. Capture the exact command, inputs, and environment. If it is intermittent, note the frequency (1-in-N) and any correlation (load, time, specific input file). An unreproducible bug cannot be verified fixed. 2. **Isolate.** Shrink the surface until the failing component is unambiguous: bisect inputs (halve the data, the config, the call graph), bisect history (`git bisect`), and attach an observer (logs, a tracer, a sampler). Change one variable at a time. 3. **Hypothesize.** State the suspected cause as a falsifiable sentence: "the process blocks on a fsync to a full disk", not "I/O is slow". A hypothesis you cannot test is a guess. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add urmzd/dotfiles/diagnose-runtime@sha256:0bc8849e0f95abbcThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260530.d3be4dd, 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 1 version of this file, committed on May 30, 2026.
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Source
urmzd/dotfiles · 5 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_im4wigov45gwwy7a GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=urmzd/dotfiles/diagnose-runtime GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0bc8849e0f95abbc1223155d9b13811c96dbc82cdad19de5d77895c9dbd08895
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