debugging SKILL.md skillA

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

Install it, pinned
mdr add iliaal/ai-skills/debugging@git:20260926.7b0520a

Pins git:20260926.7b0520a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
iliaal/ai-skills
Path
skills/debugging/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20260926.7b0520a, committed Sep 26, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 7, 2026
Size
7,295 bytes
Repository stars
45
License
MIT

Systematic root-cause debugging with verification. Use for errors, stack traces, broken tests, flaky tests, regressions, or anything not working as expected. For validating bug reports before fixing, use bug-reproduction-validator agent.

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

Ground permanent repairs in an evidence-backed causal explanation. A hypothesis may justify a bounded reversible experiment; label it as experimental until verified. During an active incident, an authorized rollback or feature disable may restore service before root cause is known. Record remaining uncertainty and keep the repair investigation open: mitigation is not proof of repair.

## Scope and modes

For diagnosis-only requests, inspect source/artifacts and run safe read-only checks within caller authority; do not repair or violate a no-build constraint. Diagnosis may finish with an evidenced cause while its proposed repair remains unverified. Use `NEEDS_CONTEXT` only for information blocking the requested work.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add iliaal/ai-skills/debugging@sha256:e586d2c8cdcd0710

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260926.7b0520a, 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 badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_oa3g5erzobturw5s.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_oa3g5erzobturw5s)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jul 7, 2026 and Sep 26, 2026, about one every 16 days.

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git:20260926.7b0520a latest2026-09-26 7b0520a 7,295 BA view · diff
git:20260908.6c9fed12026-09-08 6c9fed1 6,564 BA view · diff
git:20260906.9107cb12026-09-06 9107cb1 17,980 BA view · diff
git:20260829.3d613912026-08-29 3d61391 17,035 BA view · diff
git:20260810.eee1e9c2026-08-10 eee1e9c 14,298 BA view · diff
git:20260707.d9619d92026-07-07 d9619d9 13,519 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 (7295 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

iliaal/ai-skills · 45 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_oa3g5erzobturw5s
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=iliaal/ai-skills/debugging
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e586d2c8cdcd07100bd9c3fd53cb4a004d935e155b565ece9188fd03154efaf2

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.

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