debugging-and-error-recovery

by addyosmani (GitHub) in addyosmani/agent-skills

What it does

Guides systematic root-cause debugging. Use when tests fail, builds break, something that worked yesterday broke, behavior doesn't match expectations, or you encounter any unexpected error. Use when you need to figure out what broke and why - a systematic approach to finding and fixing the root ca

Quoted from the skill's SKILL.md under its MIT license.

Automated check: PassLicense: MITRepo updated 2026-10-13Testing

Install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills.git /tmp/agent-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/
cp -r /tmp/agent-skills/skills/debugging-and-error-recovery ~/.claude/skills/debugging-and-error-recovery

The command copies the skill from the author's repo. SkillTrove does not host it.

Files

Source: https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/debugging-and-error-recovery. Checked 2026-10-13.

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