Debugging Strategy

Purpose

Apply systematic debugging methodologies — root cause analysis, scientific method for debugging, log analysis, and tool-assisted tracing — to identify, isolate, and resolve software defects efficiently.

Agent Protocol

Trigger

Exact user phrases: "debugging", "debug strategy", "how to debug", "root cause", "bug reproduction", "debugging methodology", "log analysis", "troubleshooting", "debug this", "why is this broken".

Input Context

• Environment (local dev, CI, staging, production)
• Bug characteristics (reproducible, intermittent, regression, performance, crash)
• Available tools (debugger, profiler, logs, APM, metrics)
• Language and framework (affects available debugging tools)
• Recent changes (deployments, dependency updates, config changes)
• Error symptoms (error message, stack trace, incorrect output, crash dump)