debugging-and-error-recovery

debugging-and-error-recovery is a Root-cause investigation skill for AI agents, published by addyosmani in the agent-skills repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates debugging-and-error-recovery D (66/100) and the safety scan flagged it for review; a judge model has also reviewed it.

Guides systematic root-cause debugging. Use when tests fail, builds break, something that worked yesterday broke, behavior doesn't match expectations, or you encounter any unexpected error. Use when you need to figure out what broke and why — a systematic approach to finding and fixing the root cause rather than guessing.

Grade
D
Quality
66 / 100
Safety
Needs review
GitHub stars
93,916

Placed #5 of 6 in the judged category final for Root-cause investigation.

This rating describes the version of the repository we crawled; it may have changed since, so go by its current files.

Our review

Architecture
96 / 100
Maturity
Basic: a single SKILL.md
Security scan
Medium-risk patterns
License
Not declared. Check the repository before reusing it.

Judge review

Placed #5 of 6 in the judged category final for Root-cause investigation.

  • Trigger8585
  • Instructions8888
  • Specificity8888
  • Safety8585
  • Disclosure5858
  • Maintenance7070
Thorough stop-the-line triage checklist with real before/after code examples and a bisect workflow, cross-referencing a sibling skill for stack-specific commands.

What the scanner flagged

  • reads environment variables

Not checked yet

  • No blind task eval yet
  • Scope (portable / vendor / repo-internal) not assessed; only the top of each category is read for scope
  • Sibling files (scripts, references) not fetched; security scan covers SKILL.md only

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