michael-denyer/pstack-claude

principle-fix-root-causes

Apply when debugging.

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  1. 설치 명령을 복사하고 자신의 에이전트 환경에 설치하기 전에 소스 패키지를 확인하세요.
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  3. 입력과 원하는 산출물을 설명하고 출처와 결과를 대조하세요.
npx skills add https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill principle-fix-root-causes

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Fix Root Causes

When debugging, fix the fault, not the place where it surfaced. The symptom is where a wrong state became visible. The root cause is the first place the system did something it should not do, or failed to handle a state it should handle.

Why: A symptom fix hides the evidence and leaves the fault free to surface somewhere else. Each one makes the system harder to reason about, because the code now carries a workaround for a bug that nobody named.

Pattern:

  • Reproduce first.
  • Ask "why" at each step until the answer is a wrong decision in the code, not a consequence of an earlier one.
  • When stuck, instrument. Read the actual error and the actual state. Do not guess.
  • Ask whether the state that triggered the symptom is legitimate. If the system may be in that state, the code that broke on it is the root cause, and handling the state there is the fix. If the state should never exist, a check where it broke hides the bug. Find what produced the state. Guards, retries, swallowed errors, clamped values, and discarded state are the usual ways to hide a bug.
  • When something fails only after a restart, suspect persisted state first: config files, caches, lock files, serialized state.
  • Check for the pattern, not just the instance. Find every place with the same fault and fix them all.
  • If a workaround needs a paragraph-long comment to justify it, the code is wrong. Fix the code, not the comment.
  • If the deciding fact took a deep dig to find, propose the cheap, always-on signal that would have shown it at first look.

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