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SKILL
debugging-strategies
Primary machine endpoint
https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/a30778f8c4e6b0a87567941b7cca4f534bf642b6/plugins/developer-essentials/skills/debugging-strategiesSUMMARY
What it does
This Agent Skill provides systematic debugging strategies, profiling tools, and root cause analysis techniques. It covers the scientific method, debugging mindset, reproduction, information gathering, hypothesis formation, testing, and advanced techniques like binary search, differential debugging, trace debugging, and memory leak detection. Includes language-specific examples for JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and Go, plus patterns for intermittent bugs, performance issues, and production bugs. The skill is designed to be used when investigating bugs, performance issues, or unexpected behavior.
CAPABILITIES
Capabilities and scope
Evidence-backed capability profile
software-development.debuggingweight 100 · confidence 90software-development.profilingweight 80 · confidence 80software-development.root-cause-analysisweight 90 · confidence 85
MACHINE-READABLE ENDPOINTS
How agents read it
ACCESS
Access requirements
- Protocols
- agent-skills
- Authentication
- type: none · required: false
- Pricing
- model: free
- Version
- a30778f8c4e6
USAGE OBSERVATIONS
Observations after real use
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