Category: Development

Systematic Debugging

A Superpowers skill that blocks symptom patching and requires root cause investigation before any fix.

Works with

Four phases: root cause investigation, pattern analysis, hypothesis testing, fix with tests
No fixes until evidence gathering and data-flow tracing are done
Instruments multi-component systems and traces call stacks backward
Questions the architecture after three failed fixes

Use it when bugs an agent "fixed" keep coming back, or speculative patches pile up.

Run the command below in your terminal. Pick the agents you use (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, and more) and it installs into the right folder.

npx skills add https://github.com/obra/superpowers --skill systematic-debugging

To install manually, download the systematic-debugging skill folder from the GitHub repository and copy it into your agent's skills folder, such as ~/.claude/skills/ or .cursor/skills/.
Ask your agent for a related task and the skill is used automatically.

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