Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.
debug-mantra
Agent skill fromthananon/9arm-skills
Four-mantra debugging discipline — reproduce, trace the fail path, falsify the hypothesis, cross-reference every breadcrumb. Recite the mantra block verbatim at the start of any debugging session, then apply the four steps in order before proposing any fix. Trigger on /debug-mantra and proactively whenever debugging starts — user reports a bug, says something is broken/throwing/failing, asks to debug/diagnose/investigate an issue, or pastes a stack trace or error log.
How to install debug-mantra
npx skills add thananon/9arm-skills# or add only this skill to Claude Code: copy the folder
skills/engineering/debug-mantra/
# into
~/.claude/skills/debug-mantra/ (all projects)
.claude/skills/debug-mantra/ (one project)
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