Systematic Debugging

Part of klh/skills — personal agent skills by Klaus L. Hougesen. Install: npx skills add klh/skills --skill systematic-debugging

Core Principle

NO FIXES WITHOUT ROOT CAUSE INVESTIGATION FIRST.

Never apply symptom-focused patches that mask underlying problems. Understand WHY something fails before attempting to fix it.

The Four-Phase Framework

Phase 1: Root Cause Investigation

Before touching any code: