What problem does it solve? Teams lose track of bugs when defects are reported informally, closed without verification, or never prioritized against impact. This Skill provides a single accountable process that captures every defect, assesses severity and priority, tracks it to resolution, and verifies the fix against the original failure evidence. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Structured Defect Recording: Capture defects with reproduction steps, evidence, environment details, and severity using the Work-Item template. - Triage and Prioritization: Assess severity by user and business impact separately from priority, using a prioritisation matrix for consistent decisions. - Verified Closure and Trend Reporting: Close defects only after fix verification against original failure evidence, and report defect trends to inform testing strategy and release readiness. - Use Case: A QA engineer discovers a checkout failure during test execution. Use this Skill to record the defect with evidence, triage it as high severity, assign it for resolution, track it through the fix, and verify closure before the release readiness review. ## Quick Start Use the Forge-Defect-Management skill to record a newly discovered defect with its reproduction steps, severity, and priority, then track it through to verified closure.
