agent-debugging-workflow SKILL.md skillA
agent-debugging-workflow from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/agent-debugging-workflow@git:20260728.fac4544Pins git:20260728.fac4544 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/ai-coding-tools/agent-debugging-workflow/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260728.fac4544, committed Jul 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 28, 2026
- Size
- 1,809 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Work with an agent on a bug by supplying evidence and letting it form hypotheses, rather than asking it to guess from a description. Use when debugging with an agent's help.
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
# Agent debugging workflow Agents debug well with evidence and badly with descriptions. The common failure is describing the symptom and receiving plausible speculation, when the actual error output would have been decisive. ## Method 1. **Give the raw evidence first.** Error message, stack trace, logs, and the exact reproduction steps, rather than your summary of them (see stack-trace-reading). 2. **Withhold your theory initially.** Stating your suspicion anchors the agent on it, and independent hypotheses are more useful (see debugging). 3. **Ask for hypotheses ranked by likelihood.** Several candidates with a way to distinguish them beats one confident answer. 4. **Let it instrument rather than guess.** Adding logging or a targeted test to narrow the cause is faster than reasoning about possibilities (see binary-search-debugging). 5. **Confirm the mechanism before accepting a fix.** A change that makes the symptom disappear without an explained cause is not a fix (see root-cause-analysis). 6. **Provide the failing test if one exists.** A reproduction converts debugging from discussion into verification. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/agent-debugging-workflow@sha256:afc305e3fc9d6d26The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.fac4544, 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 2 versions of this file, all committed on Jul 28, 2026.
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| git:20260728.fac4544 latest | 2026-07-28 | fac4544 | 1,809 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260728.819a393 | 2026-07-28 | 819a393 | 1,809 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wmkzzar6du7pt53l GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/agent-debugging-workflow GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/afc305e3fc9d6d26f0bf05dff16618a3a883b59560999a5d9ce8767f7720a02a
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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.