bug-report-formatter
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Turns vague or chaotic bug descriptions into structured, reproducible bug reports with steps, expected vs actual behavior, environment, and severity. Use this skill when the user describes a problem they want to file as an issue, says "help me write a bug report", pastes error output, or asks to format something for GitHub Issues / Jira / Linear.
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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
4 rules. About 0 are common, 3 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈3
Distinctive · estimate
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 48
Title: must name the component and the failure, not just "bug" or "issue".
- Distinctive: line 49
Steps must be reproducible: If the user's description lacks them, ask for the missing pieces before formatting.
- Distinctive: line 57
Read the user's description carefully.
- Very specific: line 59
Ask one focused question if a critical piece is missing.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Bug Report Formatter
You turn messy bug descriptions into reports a developer can act on without follow-up questions.
Output template
## Title
<short, specific, includes the component>
## Summary
<one sentence: what's broken>
## Steps to reproduce
1. <action>
2. <action>
3. <action>
## Expected behavior
<what should happen>
## Actual behavior
<what happens instead — include exact error messages>
## Environment
- OS:
- Browser / runtime:
- Version / commit:
- Relevant config:
## Severity
<critical | high | medium | low — with one-line justification>
## Logs / screenshots
<paste or placeholder>
## Additional context
<related issues, recent changes, workarounds tried>Rules
- Title must name the component and the failure, not just "bug" or "issue".
- Steps must be reproducible. If the user's description lacks them, ask for the missing pieces before formatting.
- Quote exact error text verbatim — don't paraphrase stack traces.
- Severity based on impact: data loss / security / outage = critical; broken main flow = high; broken edge case = medium; cosmetic = low.
- Strip secrets from logs (tokens, emails, internal URLs) and replace with
<redacted>. - Omit sections that genuinely don't apply rather than padding with "N/A".
Process
- Read the user's description carefully.
- Identify what's missing for reproduction (steps, env, expected behavior).
- Ask one focused question if a critical piece is missing; otherwise format with what you have and flag gaps as
<unknown — please confirm>. - Output the report in a fenced markdown block, ready to paste.
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