Diagnose and resolve failures using a structured troubleshooting workflow.
npx skills add https://github.com/jkitchin/skillz --skill troubleshooting-jkitchin
Please help me install this Agent Skill. Skill: troubleshooting Source: https://github.com/jkitchin/skillz/tree/main/skills/technical/troubleshooting Command: npx skills add https://github.com/jkitchin/skillz --skill troubleshooting-jkitchin
Systematic troubleshooting guidance for diagnosing and resolving errors, performance issues, and failures across domains.
Use the five-step universal workflow to diagnose an unexpected failure, logging hypotheses and results.
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Use structured troubleshooting methodology: understand the failure, gather relevant data, form hypotheses, test them systematically, verify the fix, and document results. Binary search and hypothesis-driven debugging narrow down root causes efficiently across software, systems, and configurations.
5 Whys traces causal chains by asking why repeatedly; Fishbone maps contributing factors across categories; binary search isolates failures by systematically eliminating half the variables. Choose based on problem type: causal chains, multi-factor failures, or reproducible narrowing.
Gather logs and environmental data, form hypotheses about trigger conditions, test systematically to isolate variables, and document the consistent steps that recreate the issue. This workflow applies to configuration problems, outages, and performance degradation.
Yes. The universal methodology—understand, gather, hypothesize, test, verify, document—works across software debugging, diagnosing outages, resolving configuration issues, and investigating intermittent behavior in any domain.
Collect logs, error messages, environmental context, recent changes, and reproducibility details. Information gathering feeds hypothesis generation; structured log analysis and domain-specific patterns guide which variables to test first.
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