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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