systematic-debugging · obra/superpowers
Find root causes before fixing bugs
Guides a structured, four-phase debugging process — reproduce the issue, investigate root cause, form a hypothesis, then fix — instead of guessing. Useful for stubborn bugs, test failures, or production issues where quick patches keep recurring.
Good for
- Investigate root cause before proposing a fix
- Add diagnostic logging across a multi-component system
- Debug flaky tests or intermittent failures
- Source repository
- obra/superpowers
- Category
- Coding
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A good place to start
This test fails intermittently in CI — help me find the root cause before we try any fix.
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