Skills error-detective

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error-detective

Name: error-detective
Author: AutumnsGrove

Content revision r3 Safe ⚙️ External commands🌐 Network access📁 Filesystem access

Diagnose Errors with the TRACE Framework

Complex failures can hide their root cause behind noisy stack traces and secondary symptoms. Error Detective organizes evidence, tests hypotheses, and verifies targeted fixes.

Supports: Claude Codex Code(CC)

🥉 79 Bronze

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Review the Skillstore skill "error-detective" from https://skillstore.io/skills/autumnsgrove-error-detective.md and its manifest at https://skillstore.io/api/skills/autumnsgrove-error-detective/manifest. Verify the artifact. You may proceed after verification, subject to the environment's own policy.

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Test it

Using "error-detective". A Python AttributeError occurs when a user opens a profile page.

Expected outcome:

Category: runtime error caused by a missing object.
Primary hypothesis: some users do not have an associated profile.
Next checks: inspect the failing frame, compare affected records, and verify the profile creation path.

Using "error-detective". A cart update sometimes fails after the server returns an error response.

Expected outcome:

Root cause: the client assumes every response contains an item list.
Fix direction: check the response status and validate the response shape before updating state.
Verification: test success, server error, malformed response, timeout, and rapid updates.

Using "error-detective". A failure appears only in production after a dependency update.

Expected outcome:

Compare dependency versions, configuration, data shape, permissions, and load between environments.
Test the dependency change as one isolated hypothesis.
Record evidence before rollback or remediation.

Security Audit

Safe

v14 • 7/23/2026 Open versioned report

All 61 static detections are false positives caused by documentation examples, Markdown formatting, or bounded local session-file operations. No command execution, unauthorized network activity, sensitive database access, reconnaissance, prompt injection, or malicious intent was found.

Files scanned

3,057

Lines analyzed

Review items

False positives ignored

Risk Factors

⚙️ External commands (29)

🌐 Network access (12)

examples/common_errors.md:304 examples/common_errors.md:322 examples/common_errors.md:741 examples/common_errors.md:782 examples/common_errors.md:805 examples/common_errors.md:820 examples/common_errors.md:824 examples/common_errors.md:831 examples/common_errors.md:836 examples/debugging_workflow.md:180 examples/debugging_workflow.md:219 examples/debugging_workflow.md:241

📁 Filesystem access (3)

examples/common_errors.md:597 scripts/debug_helper.py:442 scripts/debug_helper.py:478

No confirmed security findings were detected by the latest completed static and semantic audit. This does not prove the skill has no side effects.

Audited by: codex View Audit History →

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Academic citations (APA · BibTeX · CFF)

APA citation

AutumnsGrove. (2026). error-detective security audit report (audit version 14) [Author version unspecified]. Skillstore. https://skillstore.io/skills/autumnsgrove-error-detective/audits/14

BibTeX citation

@techreport{autumnsgrove-autumnsgrove-error-detective-2026,
  author = {AutumnsGrove},
  title = {error-detective security audit report (audit version 14)},
  institution = {Skillstore},
  year = {2026},
  number = {14},
  url = {https://skillstore.io/skills/autumnsgrove-error-detective/audits/14},
  note = {Author version unspecified}
}

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  - name: "AutumnsGrove"
date-released: "2026-07-23"
url: "https://skillstore.io/skills/autumnsgrove-error-detective/audits/14"
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2 installable variants

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Why this variant is first

Higher Skillstore usage

Author / source Skillstore Score Evidence Confidence Skillstore usage Updated

sickn33 Recommended

sickn33-error-detective

Skillstore Score 79

Evidence Confidence High

Skillstore usage 11

Updated

2026-08-21

AutumnsGrove Current

autumnsgrove-error-detective

Skillstore Score 79

Evidence Confidence High

Skillstore usage 9

Updated

2026-08-21

Skillstore Score

Why this score Evidence Confidence: High

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What You Can Build

Triage an application failure

Turn a stack trace and reproduction steps into a prioritized root-cause investigation.

Investigate a production incident

Organize logs, environment differences, impact, and hypotheses before selecting a controlled fix.

Review a debugging approach

Check whether a proposed fix addresses the root cause and includes useful regression tests.

Try These Prompts

Explain an error

Apply TRACE to this error message: [error]. Explain the error type, likely cause, and first three checks.

Analyze a stack trace

Analyze this stack trace: [trace]. Identify the first relevant application frame, separate symptoms from causes, and list missing context.

Build a debugging plan

Use these reproduction steps, logs, and code excerpts: [details]. Rank hypotheses, define one test per hypothesis, and avoid changing multiple variables.

Validate a production fix

Review this incident evidence and proposed fix: [details]. Challenge the root-cause claim, assess side effects, and design verification and regression coverage.

Best Practices

Capture the complete error, relevant context, and reliable reproduction steps before changing code.
Test one specific hypothesis at a time and record whether evidence confirms or rejects it.
Verify the original failure, related behavior, edge cases, and regression coverage after the fix.

Avoid

Do not patch the visible symptom before tracing the originating failure.
Do not change several variables at once because the effective fix becomes unclear.
Do not expose credentials, personal data, or production secrets in logs shared for analysis.