Forensic — Development skill for Claude Code
Investigate what went wrong in a failed build.
How to install Forensic
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/droidnoob-hew-forensic/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/droidnoob-hew-forensic && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/droidnoob/hew/HEAD/commands/forensic.md -o ~/.claude/skills/droidnoob-hew-forensic/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Forensic does
description: Investigate what went wrong in a failed build.
Walk `hew task show` audit trails. Check dependency resolution via `hew dep tree `. Find where things broke. Use Beads' Dolt history (`bd history `) to compare states across commits — no `hew` wrapper for history yet.
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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