Terminal Deck 0.15.0
Terminal Deck

Skill

Systematic debugging

by Jesse Vincent @obra

Find the root cause before proposing a fix, in an order the agent has to finish.

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What it is
Skill — A folder of instructions an agent reads when it needs them.
What it needs
Runs scripts on this machine
On your machine
Ships scripts the agent may run
Who made it
Jesse Vincent @obra
Price
Free
Source on github.com

debugging root-cause test-failure process discipline

How to install it

Installing from Commons is not in version 0.15.0, the version you can download today — the Community shelf arrives in the next release. Until then this page is the record of what this is, what it would put on your machine, and where it comes from.

  1. Open Terminal Deck, go to Store, open the Community shelf, search for Systematic debugging and press Install.
  2. It copies the whole folder out of the repository and nothing else.

The facts

Publisher
Jesse Vincent
Kind
Skill
Version
1.0.0
Licence
MIT
Shelf
Code and repositories
Repository
obra/superpowers
Commit
b36e0829c6d0140e93cfef2ca599b1b07d4a7797
Folder
skills/systematic-debugging
Package
12 files, 15.1 kB
Fingerprint
sha256 dfacda6d7ac18adb4734501ff64f119356aede2ef49b3886e176013f04035297
Last updated
28 August 2026

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For AI readers

/@obra/systematic-debugging/llms.txt — the facts on this page as plain text. Jesse Vincent has written no description of their own.

What this file is for

An assistant that lands on this page has to work out what this is from headings and a one-line summary, and it will guess. So every listing is also served as one plain-text file, at the same address with /llms.txt on the end. A publisher can put their own words in it by naming a text or markdown file in their terminaldeck.json, or by typing one when they publish.

The whole catalogue is served the same way: every listing as one line, or every listing in full with each publisher's own description. Everything Jesse Vincent publishes is at /@obra/llms.txt.

Discussion

Ask Jesse Vincent and everybody else using this.

  1. Terminal Deck Moderator

    This one is a set of instructions, not a program: it changes the order your agent works through a bug in, and it does not run anything by itself. If it is not firing when you expect it to, say which agent you are on and what you asked for.

    1. Terminal Deck Moderator Asked this

      It is tier 2, and runs-scripts is in its needs line: the instructions can ask your agent to run something. Worth reading once before you switch it on.

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