troubleshooting

I took a look at your troubleshooting skill and wanted to share some thoughts.

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• GitHub
• Your agentic skill in the SkillzWave marketplace

The TL;DR

You're at 81/100, solid B territory. This is based on Anthropic's best practices for skill design. Your strongest area is Utility (18/20) – the skill actually solves real debugging problems with systematic workflows. Weakest area is Progressive Disclosure Architecture (22/30) – mainly because a 523-line file without a TOC makes navigation harder than it should be.

What's Working Well

• Strong trigger coverage – Your metadata includes specific error patterns (TypeError, ECONNREFUSED) and intent phrases ("help debug", "fix this"), which means agents will actually find this skill when they need it
• Solid utility focus – The quick_start workflow, CI feedback loop section, and before/after checklist patterns show you understand how debugging actually works in practice
• Helpful references – Moving regenerate-vs-repair and boundary-complexity concepts to separate files is the right call, even if you could delegate more

The Big One: Navigation Crisis

Your 523-line SKILL.md is packed with value but impossible to scan. Agents and humans alike need to know what's where without reading everything. Add a table of contents immediately after the frontmatter with anchor links to each major section:

## Contents
- [Quick Start](#quick-start)
- [Agent Debugging](#agent-debugging)
- [CI Feedback Loop](#ci-feedback-loop)
- [Success Criteria](#success-criteria)

This one change gets you +2 points and makes the skill actually usable at scale.

Other Things Worth Fixing

1. Agent debugging section is bloated (~110 lines) – Move the React/database/network/memory-specific debugging to references/agent-debugging.md, keep a 5-line summary with a pointer. Gain ~3 points and better token economy.

2. Success criteria checklist is buried – It's at line 504. Move it right after quick_start so users see the win conditions immediately, not after 300+ lines. Quick +1 point fix.

3. Voice consistency slip – Lines like "before checking your code" and "what you think" break your otherwise solid imperative voice. Rewrite to "before checking the code" and "expected behavior" to stay consistent. +1 point.

Quick Wins

• Add a TOC with anchor links (+2 pts, fixes navigation)
• Move agent debugging section to references (+3 pts, improves PDA)
• Relocate success criteria near quick_start (+1 pt, better UX)
• Standardize voice to imperative throughout (+1 pt)

These changes would put you at 88/100 and move you solidly into A territory.

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