debug-systematic SKILL.md skillA
debug-systematic from travisjneuman/.claude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add travisjneuman/.claude/debug-systematic@git:20260930.c8d311dPins git:20260930.c8d311d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- travisjneuman/.claude
- Path
skills/debug-systematic/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260930.c8d311d, committed Sep 30, 2026
- First version recorded
- Dec 18, 2025
- Size
- 5,540 bytes
- Repository stars
- 105
- License
- MIT
Systematic 4-phase debugging methodology for complex, intermittent, or mysterious issues. Use when investigating bugs, race conditions, or unexplained failures.
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
# Systematic Debugging Protocol A disciplined, evidence-based approach to debugging that prevents guessing and ensures root cause discovery. ## The 4-Phase Protocol ### Phase 1: REPRODUCE (Establish Ground Truth) **Goal**: Create reliable reproduction steps before ANY investigation. **Actions**: 1. Document exact steps to trigger the bug 2. Record environment specifics (OS, versions, config, memory, network) 3. Determine frequency: Always? Sometimes? Specific conditions? 4. Capture exact error messages, stack traces, screenshots 5. Test on different environments to isolate variables **Key Questions**: - When did it last work correctly? - What changed since then? (code, deps, config, infrastructure) - Is it environment-specific? - Is it data-specific? - Is it timing-specific? **Output**: Clear reproduction steps that reliably trigger the issue. --- ### Phase 2: ISOLATE (Narrow the Scope) **Goal**: Reduce the search space from "entire codebase" to "specific component." **Techniques**: **Binary Search**: 1. Identify two points: working state and broken state 2. Test the midpoint 3. Recurse into the broken half 4. Continue until the change is identified …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add travisjneuman/.claude/debug-systematic@sha256:0bbcd0f6b6508229The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260930.c8d311d, 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_zoligymiae5gu643)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Dec 18, 2025 and Sep 30, 2026, about one every 95 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260930.c8d311d latest | 2026-09-30 | c8d311d | 5,540 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260305.c8fc790 | 2026-03-05 | c8fc790 | 5,375 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260113.90b2d6e | 2026-01-13 | 90b2d6e | 5,361 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20251218.8e57ad2 | 2025-12-18 | 8e57ad2 | 5,172 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 (5540 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
travisjneuman/.claude · 105 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zoligymiae5gu643 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=travisjneuman/.claude/debug-systematic GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0bbcd0f6b65082295440371501e8bcb9f1f2796ba83626ea1c896e8bca4f3c1d
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.