principle-fix-root-causes
Installation
SKILL.md
Fix Root Causes
Read the host adapter once per session before following this skill. It maps upstream Cursor-specific tool, model, path, and permission instructions to your host and sets authority limits.
When debugging, fix the fault, not the place where it surfaced. The symptom is where a wrong state became visible. The root cause is the first place the system did something it should not do, or failed to handle a state it should handle.
Why: A symptom fix hides the evidence and leaves the fault free to surface somewhere else. Each one makes the system harder to reason about, because the code now carries a workaround for a bug that nobody named.