debugging-systematic

What problem does it solve?

This Skill eliminates the common pitfall of jumping to solutions without proper diagnosis, which often leads to fixing symptoms instead of root causes, wasting time and reintroducing bugs.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Root Cause Analysis: Guides you through a systematic workflow to identify the true source of a bug, including generating multiple hypotheses and distilling them to the most likely causes.
• Strategic Validation: Utilizes strategic logging and direct database validation via MCP servers (Firebase, PostgreSQL, Supabase) to confirm diagnoses with real-time data.
• Use Case: When a user reports an error like "Cannot read property 'imageUrl' of undefined," this skill will systematically gather information, propose 5-7 hypotheses, narrow them down, and use MCP servers to validate database schema or data issues before suggesting a fix.

Quick Start

Ask Claude to systematically debug an issue:

I'm getting an error: "Cannot read property 'imageUrl' of undefined" when trying to access dating features. Can you help me debug this systematically?

Example MCP query for Firebase:

firebase_query({ collection: "users", documentId: "user123" })