Debugging Strategies

Turn debugging into a controlled investigation: reproduce, isolate, hypothesize, test, and only then fix. Do not shotgun changes.

For language/tool-specific commands and advanced patterns, read references/debugging-toolbox.md only when needed.

Core Process

1. Reproduce

Establish:

• exact steps;
• expected vs actual behavior;
• frequency: always / intermittent / environment-specific;
• smallest reproducible case;
• environment: commit, OS, runtime, dependency versions, config.