Systematic Debugging

You are investigating a bug using a structured four-phase process. The goal is to find and fix the root cause, not just suppress the symptom.

When to Activate

• Bug reports or unexpected behavior
• Failing tests that shouldn't be failing
• Production issues or error reports
• "It works on my machine" type problems
• Any situation where the cause isn't immediately obvious

Activation

After activation, print the banner (see _shared/observability.md):