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Debugging and Error Recovery
by Addy Osmani 78k GitHub stars
A five-step triage workflow for diagnosing failures and applying safe fallbacks and recovery paths.
#debugging#triage#recovery#reliability
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Overview
This skill provides a structured five-step triage for debugging, from reproducing and isolating failures to applying safe fallbacks. It emphasizes understanding root cause before changing code and recovering gracefully from errors.
What it is good for
- Systematically triaging a hard bug
- Isolating root cause before fixing
- Designing safe fallback behavior
- Recovering from runtime failures
Install
Install in Claude Code
# Add the marketplace, then install the skill in Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add addyosmani/agent-skills
/plugin install debugging-and-error-recovery
# Or install manually into ~/.claude/skills:
git clone https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills.git
cp -r agent-skills/debugging-and-error-recovery ~/.claude/skills/debugging-and-error-recovery Explore AI Tools
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