Systematic 4-phase debugging: understand the failure, form hypotheses, test one change at a time, fix with confidence. Activate when tests fail unexpectedly, errors occur, behavior is wrong, or something that worked before is now broken. Triggers on: "debug", "why is this failing", "test failure", "unexpected error", "bug", "broken".
Quickly install debugging-protocol AI skill to your development environment via command line
Source: jwilger/agent-skills.
Value: Feedback -- systematic investigation produces understanding. Understanding produces correct fixes. Correct fixes prevent recurrence. Skipping investigation produces symptom fixes that hide bugs.
Teaches a disciplined 4-phase debugging process that enforces root cause analysis before any fix attempt. Prevents the most common debugging failure mode: jumping to a fix without understanding why the problem exists.
Never change code to fix a bug until you have completed root cause investigation. When you see an error and immediately know the fix, that is exactly when you are most likely to be wrong. Investigate first.
Systematic 4-phase debugging: understand the failure, form hypotheses, test one change at a time, fix with confidence. Activate when tests fail unexpectedly, errors occur, behavior is wrong, or something that worked before is now broken. Triggers on: "debug", "why is this failing", "test failure", "unexpected error", "bug", "broken". Source: jwilger/agent-skills.
Stable fields and commands for AI/search citations.
npx skills add https://github.com/jwilger/agent-skills --skill debugging-protocolSystematic 4-phase debugging: understand the failure, form hypotheses, test one change at a time, fix with confidence. Activate when tests fail unexpectedly, errors occur, behavior is wrong, or something that worked before is now broken. Triggers on: "debug", "why is this failing", "test failure", "unexpected error", "bug", "broken". Source: jwilger/agent-skills.
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/jwilger/agent-skills --skill debugging-protocol Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenClaw
https://github.com/jwilger/agent-skills