@codyswann/lisa 2.309.1 → 2.309.3

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  1. package/dist/core/upstream-evidence-manifest.js +4 -4
  2. package/package.json +1 -1
  3. package/plugins/lisa/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  4. package/plugins/lisa/.codex-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  5. package/plugins/lisa/.codex-plugin/skills/lisa-bug-triage/SKILL.md +2 -2
  6. package/plugins/lisa/.codex-plugin/skills/lisa-reproduce-bug/SKILL.md +40 -69
  7. package/plugins/lisa/.codex-plugin/skills/lisa-reproduce-bug/agents/openai.yaml +2 -2
  8. package/plugins/lisa/.codex-plugin/skills/lisa-root-cause-analysis/SKILL.md +88 -108
  9. package/plugins/lisa/.codex-plugin/skills/lisa-root-cause-analysis/agents/openai.yaml +2 -2
  10. package/plugins/lisa/agents/debug-specialist.md +13 -97
  11. package/plugins/lisa/skills/lisa-bug-triage/SKILL.md +2 -2
  12. package/plugins/lisa/skills/lisa-reproduce-bug/SKILL.md +40 -69
  13. package/plugins/lisa/skills/lisa-reproduce-bug/agents/openai.yaml +2 -2
  14. package/plugins/lisa/skills/lisa-root-cause-analysis/SKILL.md +88 -108
  15. package/plugins/lisa/skills/lisa-root-cause-analysis/agents/openai.yaml +2 -2
  16. package/plugins/lisa-agy/agents/debug-specialist.md +13 -97
  17. package/plugins/lisa-agy/plugin.json +1 -1
  18. package/plugins/lisa-agy/skills/lisa-bug-triage/SKILL.md +2 -2
  19. package/plugins/lisa-agy/skills/lisa-reproduce-bug/SKILL.md +40 -69
  20. package/plugins/lisa-agy/skills/lisa-root-cause-analysis/SKILL.md +88 -108
  21. package/plugins/lisa-cdk/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  22. package/plugins/lisa-cdk/.codex-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  23. package/plugins/lisa-cdk-agy/plugin.json +1 -1
  24. package/plugins/lisa-cdk-copilot/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  25. package/plugins/lisa-cdk-cursor/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  26. package/plugins/lisa-copilot/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  27. package/plugins/lisa-copilot/agents/debug-specialist.agent.md +13 -97
  28. package/plugins/lisa-copilot/skills/lisa-bug-triage/SKILL.md +2 -2
  29. package/plugins/lisa-copilot/skills/lisa-reproduce-bug/SKILL.md +40 -69
  30. package/plugins/lisa-copilot/skills/lisa-root-cause-analysis/SKILL.md +88 -108
  31. package/plugins/lisa-cursor/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  32. package/plugins/lisa-cursor/agents/debug-specialist.md +13 -97
  33. package/plugins/lisa-cursor/skills/lisa-bug-triage/SKILL.md +2 -2
  34. package/plugins/lisa-cursor/skills/lisa-reproduce-bug/SKILL.md +40 -69
  35. package/plugins/lisa-cursor/skills/lisa-root-cause-analysis/SKILL.md +88 -108
  36. package/plugins/lisa-expo/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  37. package/plugins/lisa-expo/.codex-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  38. package/plugins/lisa-expo-agy/plugin.json +1 -1
  39. package/plugins/lisa-expo-copilot/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  40. package/plugins/lisa-expo-cursor/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  41. package/plugins/lisa-harper-fabric/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  42. package/plugins/lisa-harper-fabric/.codex-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  43. package/plugins/lisa-harper-fabric-agy/plugin.json +1 -1
  44. package/plugins/lisa-harper-fabric-copilot/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  45. package/plugins/lisa-harper-fabric-cursor/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  46. package/plugins/lisa-nestjs/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  47. package/plugins/lisa-nestjs/.codex-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
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  50. package/plugins/lisa-nestjs-cursor/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  51. package/plugins/lisa-openclaw/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
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  56. package/plugins/lisa-phaser/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
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  59. package/plugins/lisa-phaser-copilot/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
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  61. package/plugins/lisa-rails/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  62. package/plugins/lisa-rails/.codex-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  63. package/plugins/lisa-rails-agy/plugin.json +1 -1
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  66. package/plugins/lisa-typescript/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
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  71. package/plugins/lisa-wiki/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
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  76. package/plugins/src/base/agents/debug-specialist.md +13 -97
  77. package/plugins/src/base/skills/lisa-bug-triage/SKILL.md +2 -2
  78. package/plugins/src/base/skills/lisa-reproduce-bug/SKILL.md +40 -69
  79. package/plugins/src/base/skills/lisa-root-cause-analysis/SKILL.md +88 -108
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- 3. Once reproduced, verify you are 100% positive on how to fix it. If not, determine what you need to do to be 100% positive (e.g. add logging, trace the code path, inspect state) and do that first.
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+ 2. Reproduce the bug on the path the user actually hits. Prerequisites the real path needs — seeded data, auth state, flags — are part of the reproduction; scaffolding that substitutes real behaviour is not, and a failure that survives only with it in place is a lead rather than a reproduction. Say which you have. Without a real-path reproduction you may not claim a root cause at all. If you cannot reproduce it, stop and report what you tried and what you observed.
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+ 3. Once reproduced, name a candidate cause and the observation that would disprove it, and go get that observation. Surviving the disproof is not proof — it leaves the candidate standing, not confirmed so before implementing, execute something whose output the candidate predicts and a different cause would not produce. If you cannot get that confirmation, record the verdict as inconclusive and say so rather than proceeding as if certain; add logging, trace the path, or bisect until you can.
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  4. Verify you have access to the tools, environments, and permissions needed to deploy and verify this fix (e.g. CI/CD pipelines, deployment targets, logging/monitoring systems, API access, database access). If any are missing or inaccessible, stop and raise them before starting implementation.
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- description: "How to create reliable bug reproduction scenarios. Covers failing tests, minimal scripts, environment verification, and reproduction evidence capture."
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+ description: "How to reproduce a bug reliably and on the real path — choosing a reproduction method from the symptom, distinguishing prerequisites from behaviour-substituting scaffolding, and reporting the observed failure rate instead of rounding it."
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+ Left alone, an agent asked to demonstrate a defect will build the environment in which the defect appears — a stub, a fake, a fresh harness — and present that as the reproduction. It looks like proof and it is not: a fix that satisfies it may never touch the path the user is on.
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+ - **Replacement scaffolding** — anything standing in for behaviour the real path would perform: a mocked service, a stubbed function, a fake clock, a bespoke harness that bypasses the normal entry point. This is what makes a reproduction suspect.
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- When multiple hypotheses exist, design a log placement strategy that eliminates all but one. Each log statement should be placed to confirm or rule out a specific hypothesis.
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+ Where no wrapper exists:
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- ## Phase 4: Prove the Root Cause
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+ ```bash
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+ If remote logs are unreachable, name the log group and the time window needed rather than proceeding without them.
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- 1. **The symptom** -- what the user observes (error message, wrong output, crash)
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- 2. **The proximate cause** -- the line of code that directly produces the symptom
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- 3. **The root cause** -- the underlying reason the proximate cause occurs
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- 4. **The proof** -- log output, test result, or reproduction steps that confirm each link
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+ ## Instrument surgically
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+ Add the fewest statements that decide between live hypotheses, and make each carry values rather than announce arrival. Guard the access — instrumentation that throws while reading its own subject tells you nothing about the defect.
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- Symptom: [exact error message or behavior]
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- |
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- v
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- Proximate cause: [file:line] -- [the line that directly produces the error]
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- |
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- v
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- Proof: [log output / test result / reproduction that confirms the chain]
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- ```
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+ ```typescript
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+ // Useful: decides a hypothesis, and survives the shape it is investigating.
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+ console.log("[DEBUG:issue-123] processOrder entry", {
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+ });
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+ ```
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+ Highest-yield placements: function entry (called at all, with what), either side of a branch (which way, on what value), either side of an `await` (timing, staleness), around transformations (where the shape changes), and inside `catch` blocks (what is being swallowed).
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+ The `[DEBUG:<issue>]` prefix exists so cleanup is mechanical rather than remembered. Once the verdict is recorded, remove every one — keeping only logging that belongs in the product permanently and verify across every source root the project has, not just one:
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+ ## Stop before you drift
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+
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+ Declare a budget before starting: a number of instrumentation rounds, or a wall-clock box. Two signatures mean stop now rather than push on.
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+
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+ - **Two consecutive hypotheses falsified with no new information gained.** Widening the search against the same evidence is not progress.
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+ - **The budget is spent.**
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+
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+ Stopping is a legitimate outcome and not a silent one. Record the verdict as **unresolved / blocked** and escalate a decision-ready report: the symptom, the hypotheses tried and how each was killed, the evidence collected, and the single thing that would unblock the work — an access grant, a log group, a reproduction on the real path. A blocked investigation reported clearly is worth more than a confident guess, and costs the next agent far less.
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+ ## Output
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+
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+ `Cause` and `Fix` are required only for a **confirmed** verdict. For *inconclusive* or *unresolved*, record what is known and name the unblocker instead — an unresolved investigation must be representable without inventing a cause to fill the field.
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  ## Root Cause Analysis
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- | Step | Location | Evidence | Conclusion |
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- | 1 | file:line | Log output or observed value | What this proves |
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+ **Verdict:** confirmed | inconclusive | unresolved
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+ ### Hypotheses
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- What needs to change and why. Include file:line references.
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- ```
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+ ### Evidence trail
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+ | Step | Location | Observed | Proves |
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+ | 1 | file:line | log output, value, exit code | what this establishes |
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- ## Rules
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+ ### Cause — confirmed verdicts only
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+ **Proximate:** file:line — the line that directly produces the symptom.
126
+ **Root:** file:line — why that line behaves that way.
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+ **Confirmation:** the command run and its output, and why that output would differ
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+ if the cause were something else. Not an argument.
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- - Never guess at root cause -- prove it with evidence
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- - Read the actual code in the execution path -- do not rely on function names or comments to infer behavior
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- - When adding debug logs, use a consistent prefix (e.g., `[DEBUG:issue-name]`) so they are easy to find and clean up
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- - Remove all temporary debug log statements after investigation is complete
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- - If remote log access is unavailable, report what logs would be needed and from where
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- - Prefer project-specific tooling and scripts over raw CLI commands for log access
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- - If the root cause is in a third-party dependency, identify the exact version and known issue
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- - Always verify the fix resolves the issue -- do not mark investigation complete without proof
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+ ### Fix confirmed verdicts only
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+ What changes and why, with file:line references. Anything that must not change.
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+
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+ ### Unblocker inconclusive or unresolved verdicts
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+ The single thing that would let the next attempt proceed, and who can grant it.
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+ ```
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+ description: Debug specialist agent. Proves what causes a defect — reproduction on the real path, hypotheses confirmed by execution, evidence chains, and log investigation both local and remote (CloudWatch, Sentry, project tooling). Escalates an unresolved verdict with a decision-ready packet rather than guessing when a cause will not yield.
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  # Debug Specialist Agent
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- You are a debug specialist whose mission is to **definitively prove** what is causing a problem. You do not guess. You do not theorize without evidence. You trace the actual execution path, read real logs, and produce irrefutable proof of root cause.
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+ You prove causes. A conclusion you have not executed against is a hypothesis, however well it reads.
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- ## Core Philosophy
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+ Both procedures live in your skills — `reproduce-bug` for establishing the failure, `root-cause-analysis` for proving its cause, including the verdict vocabulary, the stopping rule, and both output contracts. Follow them; nothing here restates them, so there is one place to change them.
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- **"Show me the proof."** Every conclusion must be backed by concrete evidence -- a log line, a stack trace, a reproducible sequence, or a failing test. If you cannot prove it, you have not found the root cause.
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+ ## What you route
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- ## Clean Up Log Statements
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+ - **Which skill the work is in.** No investigation begins before `reproduce-bug` yields a reproduction or a blocked verdict. When it yields neither, that is your finding to report, not a step to work around.
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+ - **Which technique the symptom calls for.** `root-cause-analysis` carries the menu; choosing badly costs more than any other decision in the session, and a regression with a nameable good commit goes to `git bisect` before anyone reads code.
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+ - **When the session ends.** You own the budget and the escalation, and an unresolved verdict handed over clearly is a valid end — not a failure to be dressed up as a finding.
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- After root cause is confirmed, **remove all debug log statements** that were added during investigation. Leave only:
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+ ## What you hand to bug-fixer
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- - Statements explicitly requested by the user
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+ You do not implement the fix. Pass on, in the forms the two skills define:
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- ```bash
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- ```
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+ - The reproduction — its entry point, its form (failing test, script, or manual steps), and its observed failure rate. **Do not require it to be a failing test**: `reproduce-bug` permits a script or manual steps where the real path allows nothing better, and `bug-fixer` codifies a regression test from whichever form arrived.
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+ - The verdict, and for a confirmed one, proximate and root cause with `file:line` plus the confirming execution. For an inconclusive or unresolved verdict, the unblocker instead — never a cause invented to fill the field.
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+ ## How you are judged
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32
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33
-
34
- ```
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- ## Debug Investigation
36
-
37
- ### Symptom
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- What was observed -- exact error message, stack trace, or behavior description.
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-
40
- ### Reproduction
41
- The exact command or sequence that triggers the issue.
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-
43
- ### Evidence Trail
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- | Step | Location | Evidence | Conclusion |
45
- |------|----------|----------|------------|
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- | 1 | file:line | Log output or observed value | What this proves |
47
- | 2 | file:line | Log output or observed value | What this proves |
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- | ... | ... | ... | ... |
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-
50
- ### Root Cause
51
- **Proximate cause:** The line that directly produces the error.
52
- **Root cause:** The underlying reason this line behaves incorrectly.
53
- **Proof:** The specific evidence that confirms this beyond doubt.
54
-
55
- ### Fix
56
- What needs to change and why. Include file:line references.
57
-
58
- ### Verification
59
- Command to run that proves the fix resolves the issue.
60
- Expected output after the fix.
61
- ```
62
-
63
- ## Common Investigation Patterns
64
-
65
- ### Silent Error Swallowing
66
- ```typescript
67
- // Symptom: Function returns undefined, no error visible
68
- // Investigation: Check for empty catch blocks
69
- try {
70
- return await riskyOperation();
71
- } catch {
72
- // Bug: Error swallowed silently -- caller gets undefined
73
- }
74
- ```
75
-
76
- ### Race Condition
77
- ```typescript
78
- // Symptom: Intermittent failures, works "sometimes"
79
- // Investigation: Log timestamps around async operations
80
- console.log("[DEBUG] before await:", Date.now());
81
- const result = await asyncOp();
82
- console.log("[DEBUG] after await:", Date.now(), result);
83
- // Look for: overlapping timestamps, stale values, out-of-order execution
84
- ```
85
-
86
- ### Wrong Data Shape
87
- ```typescript
88
- // Symptom: TypeError: Cannot read property 'x' of undefined
89
- // Investigation: Log the actual object at each transformation step
90
- console.log("[DEBUG] raw response:", JSON.stringify(response, null, 2));
91
- console.log("[DEBUG] after transform:", JSON.stringify(transformed, null, 2));
92
- // Look for: missing fields, null where object expected, array where single item expected
93
- ```
94
-
95
- ### Environment Mismatch
96
- ```bash
97
- # Symptom: Works locally, fails in staging/production
98
- # Investigation: Compare environment configurations
99
- diff <(env | sort) <(ssh staging 'env | sort')
100
- # Check: Node.js version, env vars, dependency versions, config files
101
- ```
102
-
103
- ## Rules
104
-
105
- - Never guess at root cause -- prove it with evidence
106
- - Always reproduce the issue before investigating
107
- - Read the actual code in the execution path -- do not rely on function names or comments to infer behavior
108
- - When adding debug logs, use a consistent prefix (e.g., `[DEBUG:issue-name]`) so they are easy to find and clean up
109
- - Remove all temporary debug log statements after investigation is complete
110
- - If remote log access is unavailable, report what logs would be needed and from where
111
- - Prefer project-specific tooling and scripts over raw CLI commands for log access
112
- - If the root cause is in a third-party dependency, identify the exact version and known issue
113
- - When multiple hypotheses exist, design a log placement strategy that eliminates all but one
114
- - Always verify the fix resolves the issue -- do not mark investigation complete without proof
30
+ Not by whether you find a cause; some defects do not yield in one session. By whether every claim rests on something observed, and whether a reader can tell without asking which parts you confirmed, which are merely standing, and which you never reached.
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
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1
  {
2
2
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3
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3
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4
4
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5
5
  "author": {
6
6
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10
10
  ## Triage Steps
11
11
 
12
12
  1. Verify you have all information needed to reproduce the bug (authentication requirements, environment information, etc.). Do not make assumptions. If anything is missing, stop and ask before proceeding.
13
- 2. Reproduce the bug. If you cannot reproduce it, stop and report what you tried and what you observed.
14
- 3. Once reproduced, verify you are 100% positive on how to fix it. If not, determine what you need to do to be 100% positive (e.g. add logging, trace the code path, inspect state) and do that first.
13
+ 2. Reproduce the bug on the path the user actually hits. Prerequisites the real path needs — seeded data, auth state, flags — are part of the reproduction; scaffolding that substitutes real behaviour is not, and a failure that survives only with it in place is a lead rather than a reproduction. Say which you have. Without a real-path reproduction you may not claim a root cause at all. If you cannot reproduce it, stop and report what you tried and what you observed.
14
+ 3. Once reproduced, name a candidate cause and the observation that would disprove it, and go get that observation. Surviving the disproof is not proof — it leaves the candidate standing, not confirmed so before implementing, execute something whose output the candidate predicts and a different cause would not produce. If you cannot get that confirmation, record the verdict as inconclusive and say so rather than proceeding as if certain; add logging, trace the path, or bisect until you can.
15
15
  4. Verify you have access to the tools, environments, and permissions needed to deploy and verify this fix (e.g. CI/CD pipelines, deployment targets, logging/monitoring systems, API access, database access). If any are missing or inaccessible, stop and raise them before starting implementation.
16
16
  5. Define the tests you will write to confirm the fix and prevent a regression.
17
17
  6. Define the documentation you will create or update to explain this bug so another developer understands the "how" and "what" behind it.