Investigation Mode

Overview

This skill provides a hard stop and a repeatable workflow when progress stalls or errors repeat. It prevents “random walk” fixes and forces evidence-first debugging.

Use when...

• There are 2+ consecutive failures/errors in the same feature or approach
• The same error comes back after “fixes”
• There is temptation to “just workaround” or change approach silently
• The problem statement is unclear and implementation would be guesswork

Symptoms / keywords

• “stuck”, “still failing”, “same error”, “again”, “flaky”, “intermittent”, “can’t reproduce”, “works on my machine”
• “quick workaround”, “let’s just do it manually”, “skip validation”, “good enough”
• CI-only failures, nondeterministic tests, repeating build/compile/lint errors