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trace-fix from the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/trace-fix@git:20261108.5e6d7c1

Pins git:20261108.5e6d7c1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer
Path: trace-fix/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20261108.5e6d7c1, committed Nov 8, 2026
First version recorded: Oct 14, 2026
Size: 11,607 bytes
Repository stars: 6
License: MIT

Evidence-gated debugging protocol for iOS/macOS and Swift apps: trace the execution path, locate the exact divergence, prove the root cause, and only then fix. Use for any bug where code compiles but behaves wrongly (hangs, freezes, wrong or missing data, silent failures, intermittent issues) and for crashes (EXC_BREAKPOINT, EXC_BAD_ACCESS, SIGABRT, launch crashes). Trigger on 'debug this', 'app is crashing', 'SIGTRAP', 'crash log', 'it hangs', 'it works sometimes', or /trace-fix. Guessing at…

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

# /trace-fix: Trace Before You Fix

## Why this protocol exists

Guess-and-ship debugging is expensive: every wrong fix costs a build, a test pass, and
often a release. Worse, a wrong fix can look right (timing shifts, one manual test
passes) and ship with false confidence. Investigations that follow a structured trace
tend to find the cause in minutes; investigations that skip it tend to take many cycles.

**Do not write fix code until you have passed Gate 3.**

## Gate checklist

Track the protocol with this list. A gate is not ticked until its CHECKPOINT sentence (below) is written down with evidence.

- [ ] Gate 1 TRACE: full path with file:line; every call followed; logs read and interpreted (crashes: first in-app frame identified, notes file created)
- [ ] Gate 2 LOCATE: "At [file:line], [actual] but should be [expected]"
- [ ] Gate 3 VERIFY: mechanism explained; evidence (code read, measurement, or repro); prediction confirmed
- [ ] Gate 4 FIX: targets the Gate 3 cause; minimal; WHY comment; same pattern checked elsewhere
- [ ] Gate 5 VERIFY: repro passes; mechanism explained; adjacent flows and leftover state checked; regression test if possible
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/trace-fix@sha256:da51ea2c90292e30

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261108.5e6d7c1, 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_vavufck6tcrj47ir.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_vavufck6tcrj47ir)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 14, 2026 and Nov 8, 2026, about one every 24 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261108.5e6d7c1 latest	2026-11-08	5e6d7c1	11,607 B	A	view · diff
git:20261014.69bca3f	2026-10-14	69bca3f	14,369 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 (11607 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

the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vavufck6tcrj47ir
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/trace-fix
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/da51ea2c90292e30dea0aae40388df581333d5a90116b3c164f46b53ceafc952

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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