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This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.

systematic-debugging from khaledsaeed18/dotclaude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/systematic-debugging@git:20260921.3a2f779

Pins git:20260921.3a2f779 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: khaledsaeed18/dotclaude
Path: skills/engineering/systematic-debugging/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 3
Latest version: git:20260921.3a2f779, committed Sep 21, 2026
First version recorded: Jun 9, 2026
Size: 5,430 bytes
Repository stars: 5
License: MIT

Debug a bug, test failure, crash, or unexpected behaviour by finding the root cause before changing anything, instead of guessing at fixes. Works in any language or stack. Use when something is broken, a test is failing, behaviour is wrong, or a previous fix didn't hold.

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

Find the root cause before you touch a line of code. A fix that targets a symptom you don't understand either fails or moves the bug somewhere else, and each blind attempt makes the next one harder to reason about. Investigation first is not the slow path; it is the fast one.

## The one rule

**No fix before you can name the root cause.** If you can't say "the bug happens because X", you are still investigating, not fixing. The moment you feel "let me just try changing this and see": stop. That instinct is the thing this skill exists to interrupt.

This holds hardest exactly when it feels most skippable: under time pressure, when the bug "looks simple", when you've already tried two things. Simple bugs have root causes too, and guess-and-check is slower than it feels because every wrong attempt has to be unwound.

## Step 1: Investigate the root cause

Do all of this before forming any fix.

- **Read the actual error.** The full message, the full stack trace, line numbers, error codes. The answer is often already written there. Don't skim past it to the part you assume is the problem.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/systematic-debugging@sha256:ce3e1901780c0f6f

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260921.3a2f779, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_jt2sfnx4p5jhb42a.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_jt2sfnx4p5jhb42a)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jun 9, 2026 and Sep 21, 2026, about one every 52 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260921.3a2f779 latest	2026-09-21	3a2f779	5,430 B	A	view · diff
git:20260921.6c17ffd	2026-09-21	6c17ffd	5,141 B	A	view · diff
git:20260609.13bdd5a	2026-06-09	13bdd5a	5,177 B	A	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 (5430 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

khaledsaeed18/dotclaude · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jt2sfnx4p5jhb42a
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/systematic-debugging
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ce3e1901780c0f6f5e98c68f9aa143cd3b33cbb7dc3eb6d89784d632baa04662

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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