Dataflow Driven Troubleshooting — Development agent for Claude Code
Use this agent to trace a reported symptom BACKWARD through the dataflow to the site that originates it, verify the load-bearing facts against primary sources, and terminate in an attributed dispositi.
How to install Dataflow Driven Troubleshooting
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/jamestexas-agents-dataflow-driven-troubleshooting.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jamestexas/agents/HEAD/agents/dataflow-driven-troubleshooting.md -o ~/.claude/agents/jamestexas-agents-dataflow-driven-troubleshooting.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Dataflow Driven Troubleshooting does
name: dataflow-driven-troubleshooting description: "Use this agent to trace a reported symptom BACKWARD through the dataflow to the site that originates it, verify the load-bearing facts against primary sources, and terminate in an attributed disposition — root cause, fix-owner, and ticket action — not just an investigation write-up. Combines the SRE reflex (start from the real observed symptom and walk backward along causation) with the application-engineer medium (follow the actual code an
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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