Project Debug — Development skill for Claude Code
Hypothesis-driven troubleshooting: structured debug from symptom to root cause.
How to install Project Debug
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/pactkit-claude-code-plugin-project-debug/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/pactkit-claude-code-plugin-project-debug && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pactkit/claude-code-plugin/HEAD/commands/project-debug.md -o ~/.claude/skills/pactkit-claude-code-plugin-project-debug/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Project Debug does
description: "Hypothesis-driven troubleshooting: structured debug from symptom to root cause" allowed-tools: [Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Glob, Grep]
@{{SKILLS_PREFIX}}_rules/execution/shared-execution.md
Command: Debug (v1.0.0 Hypothesis-Driven)
- Usage:
/project-debug "$SYMPTOM" - Agent: Senior Developer
**PRINCIPLE**: Debug by scientific method — not by reading everything. Every file read must be justified by a hypothesis. Every hypothesis must have a verification step
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