Root-Cause-First Debugging Method
skill · reused
Evidence record
- What is verified
- Uses in published workflows: 1
- Revision
- Version 0.1.5
- Validation status
- Public-sanitized publication; no independent validation is claimed.
What this is and why
A four-phase discipline that forbids proposing fixes before the root cause is understood. Phase one reads the full error, reproduces the failure, and instruments component boundaries to see where data flow breaks; phase two compares against a working example; phase three tests a single written hypothesis with the smallest possible change; phase four creates a failing test, lands one fix at the source, and verifies. After three failed fixes the procedure stops and questions the architecture instead of attempting a fourth patch.
Metadata and provenance
- id
- datarim-skill-systematic-debugging
- type
- skill
- version
- 0.1.5
- origin
- created in Arcanada
- lifecycle
- public_sanitized
- tags
- skill, talo-0029
The source is the private knowledge repository; only the sanitized public projection reaches this site.
verified · datarim-skill-systematic-debugging · v0.1.5