Debugging and Error Recovery

by addyosmani

Debugging and Error Recovery is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by addyosmani in agent-skills.

86.7K stars9.3K forkson addyosmani/agent-skillsAdded 2026/08/13Repository updated 2026/08/11

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Install Debugging and Error Recovery

Copy Debugging and Error Recovery into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

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

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/debugging-and-error-recovery/SKILL.md in addyosmani/agent-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/debugging-and-error-recovery
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Debugging and Error Recovery does

Debugging and Error Recovery guides systematic root-cause debugging when tests fail, builds break, behavior doesn't match expectations, or any unexpected error occurs. Use it to follow a structured triage process to find and fix the root cause rather than guessing.

Debugging and Error Recovery is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Debugging and Error Recovery comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, antigravity, claude-code, codex and cursor.

Documentation

README

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Debugging and Error Recovery

Overview

Systematic debugging with structured triage. When something breaks, stop adding features, preserve evidence, and follow a structured process to find and fix the root cause. Guessing wastes time. The triage checklist works for test failures, build errors, runtime bugs, and production incidents.

When to Use

Tests fail after a code change
The build breaks
Runtime behavior doesn't match expectations
A bug report arrives
An error appears in logs or console
Something worked before and stopped working

The Stop-the-Line Rule

When anything unexpected happens:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Debugging and Error Recovery

What else does addyosmani publish alongside Debugging and Error Recovery?
Debugging and Error Recovery is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from addyosmani/agent-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API and Interface Design, Agent Skill Discovery and Browser Testing. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Debugging and Error Recovery does, and is maintained by addyosmani in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the addyosmani/agent-skills page.
How does Debugging and Error Recovery compare to other Quality skills?
Debugging and Error Recovery ranks #20 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Debugging and Error Recovery against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.