investigate SKILL.md skillA

investigate from tobihagemann/turbo is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add tobihagemann/turbo/investigate@git:20261023.44fa179

Pins git:20261023.44fa179 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
tobihagemann/turbo
Path
claude/skills/investigate/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
10
Latest version
git:20261023.44fa179, committed Oct 23, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 17, 2026
Size
13,055 bytes
Repository stars
417
License
MIT

Systematically investigate bugs, test failures, build errors, performance issues, or unexpected behavior by cycling through characterize-isolate-hypothesize-test steps. Use when the user asks to "investigate this bug", "debug this", "figure out why this fails", "find the root cause", "why is this broken", "troubleshoot this", "diagnose the issue", "what's causing this error", "look into this failure", "why is this test failing", or "track down this bug".

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

# Investigate

Systematic methodology for finding the root cause of bugs, failures, and unexpected behavior. Cycle through characterize-isolate-hypothesize-test steps, with oracle escalation for hard problems. Diagnose the root cause — do not apply fixes.

Optional: `$ARGUMENTS` contains the problem description or error message.

## Step 1: Characterize

Gather the symptom and establish what is actually happening:

1. **Collect evidence** — error message, stack trace, test output, log entries, or user description of unexpected behavior
2. **Classify the problem type**:

| Signal | Type |
|--------|------|
| Stack trace / exception | Runtime error |
| Test assertion failure | Test failure |
| Compilation / bundler / build error | Build failure |
| Type checker error (tsc, mypy, pyright) | Type error |
| Slow response / high CPU / memory growth | Performance |
| "It does X instead of Y" / no error | Unexpected behavior |

3. **Establish reproduction** — run the failing command, test, or operation. If the problem cannot be reproduced (intermittent, environment-specific), document the constraints and proceed with historical evidence.
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add tobihagemann/turbo/investigate@sha256:0bb05aff6c8f8d6b

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261023.44fa179, 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 10 versions of this file, between Aug 17, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026, about one every 7 days.

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git:20261023.44fa179 latest2026-10-23 44fa179 13,055 BA view · diff
git:20261006.82b45242026-10-06 82b4524 12,604 BA view · diff
git:20261004.4fc97aa2026-10-04 4fc97aa 12,182 BA view · diff
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git:20260819.f80ced62026-08-19 f80ced6 10,153 BA view · diff
git:20260819.202ba092026-08-19 202ba09 10,215 BA view · diff
git:20260819.7af152e2026-08-19 7af152e 10,284 BA view · diff
git:20260817.17e75ca2026-08-17 17e75ca 10,148 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 (13055 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

tobihagemann/turbo · 417 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ry45f5cuvkdh4oxe
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tobihagemann/turbo/investigate
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0bb05aff6c8f8d6b921d5ce90312e92cf40b0dd04152baaed555db261f40def6

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