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Root Cause Tracing — Development skill for Claude Code

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Use when errors occur deep in execution and you need to trace back to find the original trigger - systematically traces bugs backward through call stack, adding instrumentation when needed, to identif.

How to install Root Cause Tracing

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/chrisryugj-lexdiff-root-cause-tracing/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/chrisryugj-lexdiff-root-cause-tracing && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chrisryugj/lexdiff/HEAD/.claude/skills/root-cause-tracing.md -o ~/.claude/skills/chrisryugj-lexdiff-root-cause-tracing/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Root Cause Tracing does

name: root-cause-tracing description: Use when errors occur deep in execution and you need to trace back to find the original trigger - systematically traces bugs backward through call stack, adding instrumentation when needed, to identify source of invalid data or incorrect behavior

Root Cause Tracing

Overview

Bugs often manifest deep in the call stack (git init in wrong directory, file created in wrong location, database opened with wrong path). Your instinct is to fix where th

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