hr-diagnosing-bugs SKILL.md skillA

hr-diagnosing-bugs from bompus/house-rules is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add bompus/house-rules/hr-diagnosing-bugs@git:20261104.07fb02a

Pins git:20261104.07fb02a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
bompus/house-rules
Path
skills/hr-diagnosing-bugs/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261104.07fb02a, committed Nov 4, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 7, 2026
Size
6,117 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Investigate unknown-cause or intermittent bugs and performance regressions systematically. Evident fixes only on explicit diagnosis requests; exclude change reviews.

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

# Diagnosing bugs

When filing an upstream bug or following up on an existing report, follow [Reporting a bug](references/reporting.md)
for reduction, submission and fix verification.

Follow project guidance for source paths, domain safeguards, tests and deployment.
Read relevant domain documents when they help explain the affected behavior.
Choose the next probe from the evidence; these techniques are not mandatory phases.

## Choose a model when needed

If the project names a benchmark-backed order for bug-finding models and
efforts, use it. Primary, secondary and tertiary choices can change with benchmark
results; read the current selection rather than carrying names from an old run.
If the primary is unavailable through quota, outage or an unsupported route,
use the next available eligible choice within authorized billing limits only
when changing provider, model or effort is authorized. When the low-quota
handoff rule applies, use the `hr-handoff` skill and stop, even if a model change
was authorized. Preserve review independence and record the model, effort and fallback
reason.
If no eligible model is available, report the blocker.

## Establish the symptom
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add bompus/house-rules/hr-diagnosing-bugs@sha256:acefbf5a81d3f089

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261104.07fb02a, 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 5 versions of this file, between Oct 7, 2026 and Nov 4, 2026, about one every 7 days.

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git:20261104.07fb02a latest2026-11-04 07fb02a 6,117 BA view · diff
git:20261028.1b520972026-10-28 1b52097 6,079 BA view · diff
git:20261018.6500f182026-10-18 6500f18 5,934 BA view · diff
git:20261012.b7cb5ae2026-10-12 b7cb5ae 5,822 BA view · diff
git:20261007.8b8a7102026-10-07 8b8a710 5,825 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 (6117 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

bompus/house-rules · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_osfdqiiu32krew4d
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=bompus/house-rules/hr-diagnosing-bugs
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/acefbf5a81d3f0899f1eaa4c2404f4b5bf79ece0fd3cabad23c20acc1feea817

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