Diagnose

A diagnosis loop that ends in a regression test, not just a green build.

Installation

$ npx skills add mattpocock/skills

The CLI's unit is the repository, so this installs everything in mattpocock/skills, not diagnose alone. It writes into whichever agent directories it finds — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Zed.

Summary

A diagnosis loop that ends in a regression test, not just a green build.

  • Reach for it when a production bug where the fix matters less than making sure it cannot come back.
  • Sits in Operate & maintain — production reality: debugging, performance, instrumentation, and writing down why the system is the way it is.
  • Stack-agnostic — nothing in it assumes a particular language or framework.
  • Published by Matt Pocock. Well regarded, but not the vendor of the thing it covers.
  • Installing pulls the whole mattpocock/skills repository: this catalogue lists 6 other entries from it, and the repo may hold more.

Where it sits in delivery

Operate & maintainProduction reality: debugging, performance, instrumentation, and writing down why the system is the way it is.Everything in Operate

The agent itself

The full text lives with its publisher and changes when they change it. Read it there rather than here — a mirrored copy of somebody else's procedure goes stale silently, and this page would have no way of telling you.

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