Skills debugging-strategies
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debugging-strategies
Content revision r1 Safe ⚡ Contains scripts⚙️ External commands🌐 Network access
Debug Software Issues Systematically
Bugs waste time when investigation is ad hoc. This skill guides Claude, Codex, and Claude Code through reproduction, evidence gathering, profiling, and root cause analysis.
Supports: Claude Codex Code(CC)
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Agent request
Review the Skillstore skill "debugging-strategies" from https://skillstore.io/skills/wshobson-debugging-strategies.md and its manifest at https://skillstore.io/api/skills/wshobson-debugging-strategies/manifest. Verify the artifact. You may proceed after verification, subject to the environment's own policy.Your Agent should still show its plan and request any confirmation required by the security policy.
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Test it
Using "debugging-strategies". A checkout flow fails for some users after the latest release.
Expected outcome:
- Reproduction matrix covering browser, user role, cart contents, payment method, and deployment version.
- Initial hypotheses ranked by recent changes, affected scope, and failure point.
- Experiment plan with one variable changed at a time and clear pass or fail criteria.
Using "debugging-strategies". An API endpoint became slower after a database migration.
Expected outcome:
- Profiling plan that separates application time, database time, network time, and serialization time.
- Comparison checklist for query plans, indexes, data size, dependency versions, and cache behavior.
- Validation steps for measuring latency before and after the fix.
Security Audit
Safev9 • 7/7/2026 Open versioned report
All static findings appear to be false positives caused by Markdown code fences, language syntax examples, localhost profiling documentation, and ordinary debugging prose. No prompt injection, data exfiltration intent, hidden command execution, or malicious network behavior was found in SKILL.md.
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Files scanned
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Lines analyzed
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Review items
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False positives ignored
Risk Factors
⚡ Contains scripts (2)
⚙️ External commands (34)
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🌐 Network access (1)
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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wshobson. (2026). debugging-strategies security audit report (audit version 9) [Author version unspecified]. Skillstore. https://skillstore.io/skills/wshobson-debugging-strategies/audits/9BibTeX citation
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2 installable variantsEach author remains a separate installable skill. The recommended variant is ranked by Skillstore evidence.
Why this variant is first
Highest Skillstore Score
Author / source Skillstore Score Evidence Confidence Skillstore usage Updated
sickn33 Recommended
sickn33-debugging-strategies
Skillstore Score 79
Evidence Confidence High
Skillstore usage 15
Updated
2026-08-21
wshobson Current
wshobson-debugging-strategies
Skillstore Score 77
Evidence Confidence High
Skillstore usage 13
Updated
2026-08-21
Skillstore Score
Why this score Evidence Confidence: High 55
Architecture
85
Maintainability
87
Content
71
Community
78
Spec Compliance
What You Can Build
Triage a New Bug Report
Turn vague symptoms into reproduction steps, evidence, hypotheses, and a verification plan.
Investigate a Performance Regression
Choose profiling tools, compare working and broken versions, and focus work on measured bottlenecks.
Handle a Production Incident
Collect safe evidence, reproduce locally, avoid risky production changes, and document the root cause.
Try These Prompts
Start a Bug Investigation
Help me debug this issue systematically. I will share the symptom, expected behavior, actual behavior, environment, and recent changes.
Build a Reproduction Plan
Create a minimal reproduction plan for this bug. Ask for missing details, identify variables to control, and define verification steps.
Profile a Slow Workflow
Help me investigate this performance issue. Suggest measurements, likely bottlenecks, profiling tools, and a before-and-after validation plan.
Run Root Cause Analysis
Analyze these logs, stack traces, recent changes, and reproduction notes. Rank likely root causes and propose experiments to prove or disprove each one.
Best Practices
- Start with a reliable reproduction before changing code.
- Change one variable at a time and record each result.
- Verify the fix with tests, logs, or measurements that match the original symptom.
Avoid
- Making several fixes at once before understanding the cause.
- Ignoring full error messages, stack traces, logs, or recent changes.
- Leaving temporary debug logging, breakpoints, or profiling hooks in production code.
Frequently Asked Questions
What kinds of bugs does this skill help with?
It helps with functional bugs, performance issues, memory leaks, intermittent failures, crashes, and production incidents.
Does it support specific programming languages?
It includes examples for JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and Go, plus general methods that apply across stacks.
Can it debug production systems safely?
It provides safe investigation practices, such as gathering evidence, reproducing locally, and testing fixes in staging.
Does it execute commands automatically?
No. It documents commands and tools that a developer or assistant may use with explicit project context.
What information should I provide first?
Provide expected behavior, actual behavior, reproduction steps, logs, stack traces, environment details, and recent changes.
How does it help with performance problems?
It emphasizes measurement, profiling, bottleneck identification, and validation before and after each change.