XDP for Windows: Testing & Debugging

This skill covers everything an agent needs to execute tests on the required separate test machine, attach kd for crash analysis, and recover the machine to a known-good state after a bugcheck.

[!IMPORTANT] All XDP testing must occur on a separate Windows test machine — never the dev machine. Always pass -ComputerName <machine> explicitly on every test command. Do not rely on tools\remote-set-default.ps1 alone — the session default lives in the PowerShell global scope and is silently lost when a new terminal spawns (after Start-Process, kd sessions, or whenever the tool host opens a fresh shell). A test script invoked without -ComputerName and without an active session default will run against the dev machine and may damage local state. Treat -ComputerName as required.

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