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Parallel debugging: find a root cause with competing hypotheses
Split a cross-module incident into independent investigations, then arbitrate using shared evidence.
Skills
Define symptoms, blast radius, start time, and known exclusions. Generate distinct causes across logic, data, state, dependency, resource, and configuration failure modes. Assign independent investigations and require falsifiable predictions while reading only authorized logs, metrics, and code. Combine results on a shared timeline; retain support and counter-evidence and eliminate hypotheses by evidence rather than votes. State confidence, unknowns, and the next safe validation step. Any production remediation requires separate authorization.
Permissions
Prerequisites
- For complex bugs with competing causes or investigations stuck in confirmation bias.
- Needs symptoms, time window, system boundaries, and safely readable evidence.
Permissions
- May inspect permitted logs/metrics and parallelize root-cause hypotheses.
- Production changes require separate authorization; hypotheses are not facts.
Limitations
Use competing hypotheses and eliminate by evidence consistency, not votes; retain counter-evidence and uncertainty.
Pinned upstream source
- Repository
- wshobson/agents
- File path
- plugins/agent-teams/skills/parallel-debugging/SKILL.md
- Pinned commit
46891e7e60da0e52baf1050b7b6391b64e84c6d9- Source checked
- 2026-10-14 · Reviewed against the pinned upstream source
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License: MIT
Compatible tools
Independent investigation agents · Issue tracker · Logs and traces
Main topic
Take a coding Agent change from context to verification