systematic-debugging
Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior — before proposing fixes.
Skill by yimwoo
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Works with Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, VS Code, OpenCode, Goose, Windsurf. Read the repository before you give any tool access to your data.
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Use cases: testing
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What this skill can do and what it asks for, from its SKILL.md. Checked Oct 25, 2026.
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Files it touches
~/.claude/skills/systematic-debugging
What's inside
- Skill name
systematic-debugging- Description
- Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior — before proposing fixes.
- License
- MIT
- Instructions
- 31 lines in SKILL.md · view on GitHub
Files (1)
- SKILL.md
SKILL.md (first lines)
# Systematic Debugging ## Four Phases ### Phase 1: Reproduce - Get a minimal, reliable reproduction - Never fix what you can't reproduce ### Phase 2: Understand - Read the error message fully — the answer is often there - Trace the call path from symptom to root cause - Check: recent changes, environment differences, assumptions about inputs ### Phase 3: Hypothesize - Form 1-3 specific hypotheses about root cause - Test each hypothesis with the smallest possible change - Never change multiple things at once ### Phase 4: Fix and Verify - Fix the root cause, not the symptom - Run the reproduction case — confirm fixed - Run full test suite — confirm no regressions - Invoke `hotl:verification-before-completion` ## Red Flags - "Let me try X and see what happens" without a hypothesis - Changing multiple things before verifying - Marking done without running full tests
From yimwoo/hotl-plugin, MIT.
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Signals
- Stars
- 27
- Forks
- 3
- Open issues
- 1
- Last commit (this folder)
- Mar 5, 2026 (7 months ago)
- Last release
- Jul 2, 2026 (4 months ago)
From GitHub (fetched Oct 24, 2026).
Details
- License
- MIT
- Repository
- github.com/yimwoo/hotl-plugin
- First seen
- Oct 24, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 24, 2026
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systematic-debugging skill. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/skills/yimwoo-systematic-debugging (last updated 2026-10-24)