principle-fix-root-causes
Skill18 starsChanged 53 days agoMITView on GitHub
Reproduce the symptom, trace causality until one mechanism explains it, and fix that mechanism rather than compensating for downstream effects. Use when during debugging and incident repair.
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
2 rules. 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Common
Most of the 45 edited versions we read keep these.
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Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 19
Prefer evidence from the current repository/runtime over generic preference.
- Distinctive: line 20
If the principle conflicts with an explicit user constraint, keep the constraint and state the tradeoff.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 45 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Fix Root Causes
Trigger
During debugging and incident repair.
Rule
Reproduce the symptom, trace causality until one mechanism explains it, and fix that mechanism rather than compensating for downstream effects.
Application
- Name the concrete decision this principle changes.
- Apply the rule to that decision, not as a decorative citation.
- Prefer evidence from the current repository/runtime over generic preference.
- If the principle conflicts with an explicit user constraint, keep the constraint and state the tradeoff.
Other versions45 projects use a version of this.
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Wrote their own version · 45
- backnotprop/pstack★ 3.3ksame name
- jtaroreh/agystack★ 128same name
- uzairansaruzi/p3-stack★ 126same name
- dsebban/skills★ 71same name
- Scino/fstack★ 18same name
- creedants/pstack-t3★ 17same name
- mariusflorescu/pstack-t3★ 13same name
- adjohn/pstack★ 9same name
- kkgogogo17/pi-pstack★ 9same name
- 0xrsydn/pstack-pi★ 6same name
35 more not listed
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
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