Debugging and Error Recovery
Systematic root-cause debugging — stop the line, preserve evidence, triage checklist, guard against recurrence
- What
- Systematic root-cause debugging — stop the line, preserve evidence, triage checklist, guard against recurrence
- Cost
- Free
- Needs
- none
- Install
- Copy the installer prompt below into your Muse — your agent does the rest.
Curated by Skill Harbor — systematic root-cause debugging instead of guessing: when something breaks, stop adding features, preserve evidence (error output, logs, repro steps), and work a triage checklist in order — reproduce reliably first, then diagnose, fix the root cause, and guard against recurrence. Includes handling for non-reproducible bugs (timing-dependent, race windows, load). Distinct from its sibling observability-and-instrumentation: this skill is for diagnosing a failure happening right now; observability is the telemetry you instrument beforehand so that this skill runs fast next time. Companion to the other process skills in this repo (code-simplification, incremental-implementation, shipping-and-launch). By @addyosmani, listed here with credit to its creator. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use.
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Install
Prerequisites: none Install "Debugging and Error Recovery" for me. Systematic root-cause debugging: stop the line, preserve evidence, triage checklist, guard against recurrence Repository: https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills/blob/main/skills/debugging-and-error-recovery/SKILL.md 1. Fetch the SKILL.md file for the addyosmani-debugging-and-error-recovery skill from the repository into a temporary folder and summarize what it does in one or two sentences. 2. Safety check: review the SKILL.md and scripts for anything suspicious (unexpected network calls, shell commands, credential harvesting). This repo should contain zero secrets in code, credentials only via the secure vault, allowed hosts declared in the SKILL.md. Verify that holds here; STOP on any red flag and tell me. 3. Install it as a skill: copy SKILL.md and its helper files into the agent's skills directory, in a folder named "addyosmani-debugging-and-error-recovery". 4. Verify with no network calls: frontmatter valid, files in place. 5. Report what was installed, where, and what I still need to do myself (e.g. any accounts, API keys, or CLI tools mentioned in the prerequisites above). GitHub is optional: if I have a GitHub account or the gh CLI, you may use it; otherwise public access is fine. Never require it unless it's in the prerequisites above. Rules: don't touch anything outside the temp folder and the install target. Never ask me to paste secrets in chat — credentials go through the secure vault or environment variables. If anything looks off, stop and ask me.
Questions
How do I install a build?
Every product page includes a copy-paste install prompt. Paste it into your Muse and it sets the build up for you — no manual configuration.
Where does my money go?
Straight to the seller. Skill Harbor never processes payments: checkout happens on the seller’s own page, usually Stripe.
What does the ✓ next to a creator’s name mean?
It means we confirmed the identity of the person behind the listing. It says nothing about the code itself — always check a build before installing it.