cad-debug SKILL.md skillA
cad-debug from crenshawdev/cadence is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add crenshawdev/cadence/cad-debug@git:20261029.0ae5ff0Pins git:20261029.0ae5ff0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- crenshawdev/cadence
- Path
skills/cad-debug/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261029.0ae5ff0, committed Oct 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 10, 2026
- Size
- 1,387 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Systematic debugging - hypothesis and symptom tracked in a state file that survives /clear, with a user-gated second-model consult at dead ends.
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
<objective>
Debug a symptom by the scientific method - form hypotheses, run the cheapest
discriminating test for each, confirm a root cause, fix it, verify the symptom
is gone. The investigation is persisted to `.planning/debug/<slug>.md` after
every step, so a `/clear` or a new session resumes it losslessly. At a genuine
dead-end (repeated failed fixes, exhausted hypotheses), OFFER a second-model
consult (references/consult.md) - user-gated, decision-support only.
Routing: parse `$ARGUMENTS` per the workflow's Route table (debug.md) -
`list`, `status <slug>`, `continue <slug>`, `--diagnose`, else a new symptom.
The table lives in the workflow, once.
</objective>
<execution_context>
@${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/cadence-core/workflows/debug.md
</execution_context>
<process>
Route on `$ARGUMENTS`, then run the debug workflow single-pass end-to-end.
Persist the state file after every hypothesis test and fix attempt. Never
auto-loop fixes and never auto-consult - both are deliberate, and the consult
is always user-gated.
</process>Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add crenshawdev/cadence/cad-debug@sha256:8b58f549fde3672eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261029.0ae5ff0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_waczu2y3e4y4zwrs)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jul 10, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026, about one every 28 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261029.0ae5ff0 latest | 2026-10-29 | 0ae5ff0 | 1,387 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260805.6a63445 | 2026-08-05 | 6a63445 | 1,396 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.5c5a0ab | 2026-07-16 | 5c5a0ab | 1,430 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260711.c28c696 | 2026-07-11 | c28c696 | 1,604 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260710.606e628 | 2026-07-10 | 606e628 | 1,596 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (1387 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
crenshawdev/cadence · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_waczu2y3e4y4zwrs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=crenshawdev/cadence/cad-debug GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8b58f549fde3672e078634646975ba4ee6aed38085b35dd718c3550bbc2a10d5
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.