Illustrative cover generated by us — see the source repo for real examples.
How to use
- 1
Copy the install prompt
Click the black button. One click, done.
- 2
Paste it to your agent
Send it in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or similar. It installs itself.
- 3
Ask in one sentence
Say what you want, like below, and the agent follows this skill.
/systematic-debugging make me: Bugs, failing tests and odd behaviour where you need the root causeExample message showing how to invoke it, not a real output.
What you get
- The four phases of root-cause analysis
- “Iron law” guardrails
- Red-flag checklist
Good fit
- Bugs, failing tests and odd behaviour where you need the root cause
Not for
- Feature work with no bug to chase
- License
- MIT
- Author
- @obra
- Source
- obra/superpowers/skills/systematic-debugging · ★ 295,713
Upstream description
Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes
Other ways to install
Prefer doing it yourself? These commands do the same as the button.
Read https://skilloop.dev/skills/systematic-debugging/install.md and follow the instructions to install the skill.
npx skills add https://github.com/obra/superpowers/tree/main/skills/systematic-debugging -g -a claude-code
npx skills add https://github.com/obra/superpowers/tree/main/skills/systematic-debugging -g -a codex
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/obra/superpowers.git /tmp/superpowers mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/superpowers/skills/systematic-debugging ~/.claude/skills/systematic-debugging
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