User-Mode Exception Triage

Load windbg-diagnostic-method first if it is not already loaded in this conversation, and apply it throughout for evidence ranking, hypothesis testing, confidence calibration, independent review, and report validation. This skill adds the bug-family-specific commands and evidence requirements.

When to use

Start here for access violations, heap corruption, stack overflow, fail-fast, breakpoints, and other structured exceptions in a native application, service, or user-mode driver host process dump. This includes UMDF driver failures that occur in their user-mode host. Confirm the dump type from WinDbg; the filename extension alone does not distinguish user-mode from kernel-mode dumps.

Workflow

1. Establish the exception context