debug-triage SKILL.md skillA

debug-triage from iuliandita/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add iuliandita/skills/debug-triage@git:20261003.496420b

Pins git:20261003.496420b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
iuliandita/skills
Path
skills/debug-triage/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
8
Latest version
git:20261003.496420b, committed Oct 3, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 14, 2026
Size
13,247 bytes
Repository stars
8
License
MIT

Triage live outages when the failing component is unknown; localize the fault and route further debugging.

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

# Debug Triage

A live system is broken and you do not yet know which layer is at fault. This skill localizes the
failure - narrows an unknown-layer outage to one layer with evidence - and then hands off to the
skill that owns that layer. It does not fix; it finds where to look.

It layers on top of the host harness's `systematic-debugging` skill: that skill is the root-cause
method for one *known* component. Use this skill *first*, when the component is unknown, to decide
which component `systematic-debugging` (or a domain skill) should then investigate. Triage
localizes; the domain skill diagnoses; neither guesses a fix before the cause is found.

## When to use

- A live service is down or degraded and the failing layer is not yet known ("it's broken", "502s
  started", "pods CrashLooping", "users report timeouts")
- An outage spans multiple layers (DNS, network, ingress, app, data, secrets) and you need to find
  which one before going deep
- Post-deploy or post-change breakage where the blast radius is unclear
- You are about to start guessing fixes - stop and localize first

## When NOT to use
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add iuliandita/skills/debug-triage@sha256:8722d09b7e047d01

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261003.496420b, 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_uueqmwjpf7akl6rj.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_uueqmwjpf7akl6rj)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Jun 14, 2026 and Oct 3, 2026, about one every 16 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261003.496420b latest2026-10-03 496420b 13,247 BA view · diff
git:20260924.557fa892026-09-24 557fa89 13,508 BA view · diff
git:20260920.ac018532026-09-20 ac01853 13,331 BA view · diff
git:20260910.4c98b5e2026-09-10 4c98b5e 13,213 BA view · diff
git:20260910.64816162026-09-10 6481616 13,135 BA view · diff
git:20260904.ccfce412026-09-04 ccfce41 11,990 BA view · diff
git:20260722.d313b9e2026-07-22 d313b9e 11,968 BA view · diff
git:20260614.e08b95d2026-06-14 e08b95d 11,902 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 (13247 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

iuliandita/skills · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_uueqmwjpf7akl6rj
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=iuliandita/skills/debug-triage
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8722d09b7e047d01dbe962da0099e416187a1118f652327125b9be6e3421bd64

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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