Systematic Debugging And Error Recovery

---
name: "Systematic Debugging and Error Recovery"
slug: "systematic-debugging-and-error-recovery"
description: "Stop guessing when something breaks, preserve evidence, reproduce the failure, isolate the cause, and verify the fix before resuming work."
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/debugging-and-error-recovery"
author: "addyosmani"
publisher_type: "individual"
category: "Runbooks & Diagnostics"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
---

# Systematic Debugging and Error Recovery

Stop guessing when something breaks, preserve evidence, reproduce the failure, isolate the cause, and verify the fix before resuming work.

## Prerequisites

Agent runtime with skill support, project test and build commands, logs or error output, repository access

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- git clone https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills.git

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- <details>
- <summary><b>Claude Code (recommended)</b></summary>
- **Marketplace install:**

- Source: https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/debugging-and-error-recovery
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/addyosmani/agent-skills/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/debugging-and-error-recovery

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/systematic-debugging-and-error-recovery/)