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debugging-strategies

Master systematic debugging techniques, profiling tools, and root cause analysis to efficiently track down bugs across any codebase or technology stack. Use when investigating bugs, performance issues, or unexpected behavior.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is well structured and concise, with useful trigger/anti-trigger sections, but the instruction layer is generic process advice with no executable specifics, and the single referenced resource for detailed patterns is missing from the bundle entirely. The skill reads as an outline awaiting its actual content.

Suggestions

Ship the referenced file or fix the path: `resources/implementation-playbook.md` is cited in both Instructions and Resources but does not exist anywhere in the bundle, breaking the only path to detailed content.

Add concrete, executable guidance to the Instructions — e.g., example log-capture commands, a specific profiling workflow, or a worked hypothesis/experiment pattern — instead of generic process bullets Claude already knows.

Make verification an explicit checkpoint in the workflow (e.g., confirm the fix resolves the original repro and check for regressions) rather than the single implicit 'verify the fix' bullet.

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Conciseness

The body is tight and list-driven throughout, with only one trimmable padding line: 'Transform debugging from frustrating guesswork into systematic problem-solving with proven strategies, powerful tools, and methodical approaches.' This matches anchor 4 ('minor instances of over-explanation') rather than anchor 3, since the remainder is fully efficient.

4 / 5

Actionability

The Instructions are high-level hints — 'Reproduce the issue and capture logs', 'Form hypotheses and design controlled experiments', 'Narrow scope with binary search and targeted instrumentation' — with no tool names, commands, or worked examples, and the detailed playbook they defer to does not exist in the bundle. This fits anchor 2 ('high-level hints but missing the specific steps to execute'); anchor 3 would require genuinely concrete guidance that is merely incomplete.

2 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A recognizable sequence exists (reproduce, hypothesize/experiment, narrow scope, document and verify), but 'verify the fix' is the only validation mention and it is implicit, with no checkpoints or error-recovery detail. This matches anchor 3 ('sequence present but checkpoints missing or implicit') rather than anchor 4's explicit checkpoints.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Sections are well organized and the reference to `resources/implementation-playbook.md` is clearly signaled in both Instructions and a Resources section, but the bundle contains no such file — the disclosure chain is broken, since following the reference leads nowhere. This is more than the 'minor organization gaps' of anchor 4, landing at anchor 3.

3 / 5

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Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description: it explicitly answers both what the skill does and when to use it, with natural trigger phrases and minimal fluff. The only weakness is that capability statements stay at the level of technique categories rather than concrete, tool- or artifact-specific operations.

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Specificity

The description lists several actions — 'systematic debugging techniques, profiling tools, and root cause analysis to efficiently track down bugs' — with minor gaps in coverage. It falls short of anchor 5 because the actions are technique categories rather than concrete operations on named artifacts (cf. 'fill forms, merge documents'), but exceeds anchor 3 by listing more than 1-2 actions.

4 / 5

Completeness

Both 'what' ('Master systematic debugging techniques, profiling tools, and root cause analysis...') and 'when' ('Use when investigating bugs, performance issues, or unexpected behavior') are explicitly and clearly stated with concrete trigger phrases, matching the anchor 5 example pattern. Anchor 4 is for weaker or less explicit 'when' clauses, which does not apply here.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural phrases users would say are present: 'investigating bugs', 'performance issues', 'unexpected behavior', 'track down bugs', 'debugging'. A few common variations are missing (crashes, errors, slow code, stack traces), so it matches anchor 4 rather than the comprehensive synonym coverage of anchor 5.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Debugging/root-cause analysis is a mostly distinct niche with clear triggers, but the universal claim 'across any codebase or technology stack' and the broad trigger 'unexpected behavior' create minor overlap risk with adjacent diagnostic skills. It does not reach anchor 5's 'clear niche with minimal conflict risk'.

4 / 5

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Validation

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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rmyndharis/antigravity-skills

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skills/debugging-strategies/SKILL.md

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