wicked-garden-engineering-debugging SKILL.md skillA
wicked-garden-engineering-debugging from mikeparcewski/wicked-garden is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mikeparcewski/wicked-garden/wicked-garden-engineering-debugging@git:20260914.0605b65Pins git:20260914.0605b65 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mikeparcewski/wicked-garden
- Path
skills/engineering/debugging/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260914.0605b65, committed Sep 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 6, 2026
- Size
- 2,927 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- MIT
Systematic debugging and root cause analysis for investigating errors, diagnosing complex issues, and performance profiling. Use when: "debug this error", "why is this failing", "root cause analysis", "fix this bug", "investigate crash", "stack trace", "not working".
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
# Debugging Skill Systematic debugging, root cause analysis, and error investigation. ## Debugging Approach ### 1. Understand the Problem - What is expected vs actual behavior? - When did it start? Can it be reproduced? - What changed recently? ### 2. Gather Evidence - Read logs and stack traces - Review recent changes - Identify patterns ### 3. Form Hypothesis - What is the most likely cause? - What evidence supports this? ### 4. Test Hypothesis - Design targeted test - Observe results - Refine if needed ### 5. Implement Fix - Develop minimal fix - Verify resolution - Add regression tests ### 6. Document - Root cause and fix - Add monitoring/alerting ## Issue Categories - **Logic Errors**: Incorrect conditions, off-by-one, wrong operators - **State Errors**: Race conditions, stale closures, shared mutable state - **Integration Errors**: API mismatch, auth issues, timeouts - **Performance**: N+1 queries, missing indexes, memory leaks - **Environment**: Config differences, missing vars, permissions ## Systematic Process Follow the six-step debugging process with: - Checklists for investigation and evidence gathering - Severity levels (CRITICAL, HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mikeparcewski/wicked-garden/wicked-garden-engineering-debugging@sha256:626555af38387a35The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260914.0605b65, 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_xfhdnswxmikk53x3)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between May 6, 2026 and Sep 14, 2026, about one every 33 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260914.0605b65 latest | 2026-09-14 | 0605b65 | 2,927 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260911.3beb111 | 2026-09-11 | 3beb111 | 3,273 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260711.6a4c633 | 2026-07-11 | 6a4c633 | 3,126 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260613.7b8c758 | 2026-06-13 | 7b8c758 | 3,100 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260506.9dce6ee | 2026-05-06 | 9dce6ee | 3,116 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 (2927 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
mikeparcewski/wicked-garden · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xfhdnswxmikk53x3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mikeparcewski/wicked-garden/wicked-garden-engineering-debugging GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/626555af38387a35b7315ca772fe3b425c0466a7074bb91507f25f78b4e8a880
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