Overview
debugging-and-error-recovery is an open-source frontend skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by addyosmani. Its author describes it as: “Guides systematic root-cause debugging. Use when tests fail, builds break, something that worked yesterday broke, behavior doesn't match expectations, or you encounter any unexpected error. Use when you need to figure…”. The project has 98k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add addyosmani/agent-skills`.
What debugging-and-error-recovery does
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.
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for debugging-and-error-recovery is organised into these sections:
- Overview
- When to Use
- The Stop-the-Line Rule
- The Triage Checklist
- Step 1: Reproduce
- Step 2: Localize
- Step 3: Reduce
- Step 4: Fix the Root Cause
- Step 5: Guard Against Recurrence
- Step 6: Verify End-to-End
- Error-Specific Patterns
- Test Failure Triage
Installation
Add debugging-and-error-recovery to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add addyosmani/agent-skillsReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — ships a claude code plugin marketplace
- Codex — declared in the repository topics
- Cursor — declared in the repository topics
- Antigravity — declared in the repository topics
License
debugging-and-error-recovery is published under the MIT license.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in addyosmani/agent-skills, an established project with 97,992 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 30 days
- Its repository gained 16,916 GitHub stars over the last 52 days
Author
Topics
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Frequently asked questions
- What does debugging-and-error-recovery do?
- Guides systematic root-cause debugging. Use when tests fail, builds break, something that worked yesterday broke, behavior doesn't match expectations, or you encounter any unexpected error. Use when you need to figure out what broke and why — a systematic approach to finding and fixing the root cause rather than guessing.
- How do I install debugging-and-error-recovery?
- Run /plugin marketplace add addyosmani/agent-skills in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills before installing.
- Is debugging-and-error-recovery free to use?
- Yes. debugging-and-error-recovery is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does debugging-and-error-recovery work with?
- debugging-and-error-recovery lists Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Antigravity — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does debugging-and-error-recovery come from?
- debugging-and-error-recovery ships inside addyosmani/agent-skills, a repository that contains 26 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 97,992 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.
