ss-troubleshooting-workflow

ss-troubleshooting-workflow is a skill for Claude Code from lbk-open/super-spec. It costs 79 tokens per session (3,739 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An end-to-end workflow for investigating and delivering a defect fix. It connects root-cause analysis, human confirmation, branching, planning, coding, review, and pull-request or commit delivery.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you explicitly need the complete diagnose-to-delivery process for an issue, alert, or problem description.
Why use it?
It gives a single process for moving from a reported problem to a reviewed fix, while confirming the cause before code is changed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the super-spec plugin — 20 skills shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lbk-open/super-spec/ss-troubleshooting-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add lbk-open/super-spec --skill ss-troubleshooting-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lbk-open/super-spec

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install super-spec, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for ss-troubleshooting-workflow

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lbk-open/super-spec/ss-troubleshooting-workflow.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/lbk-open/super-spec/ss-troubleshooting-workflow)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lbk-open/super-spec/ss-troubleshooting-workflow"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lbk-open/super-spec/ss-troubleshooting-workflow.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,739 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00079 $0.03739
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01869
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00748
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00374

Measured 6d ago against content hash e7131017f1d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ss-troubleshooting-workflow scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/ss-troubleshooting-workflow/SKILL.md · 227 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 227 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Troubleshooting Workflow

Chains the existing ss-* skills into a single diagnose-fix-deliver flow:

ss-inspect → [Gate: root-cause confirmation] → ss-create-branch
→ ss-plan → ss-coding (built-in review) → review-acceptance loop → ss-create-pr

Core principle: thin orchestration. This skill never writes code or drafts a plan itself. It calls the other skills in order, pauses at the gates below, passes each step's output to the next, and reports progress.

Review is not run twice. ss-coding already enforces a post-coding review internally and returns a verdict. This workflow never invokes ss-code-review separately — the review-acceptance loop below is driven entirely by that verdict.

Unlike ss-feature-workflow, the root-cause report from ss-inspect replaces the proposal, and root cause is confirmed before any branch is created — worth fixing is established before code is touched.

When to Run

This is heavy, end-to-end orchestration: it runs a root-cause investigation, creates a branch, spawns coding agents, runs reviews, and delivers the fix. Only run it when the user explicitly asks for this skill or clearly wants the full diagnose-to-delivery pipeline. For a plain question or a diagnosis-only request, do the work directly (or point to ss-inspect for diagnosis alone).

Inputs

  • Problem source — an issue link, alert ID, or plain-text problem description. If missing, ask for one.
  • Delivery modefull (default) or lite. See "Delivery Mode" below.
  • Investigation tierauto (default), L0 Local, L1 Runtime, or L2 Systemic, forwarded to ss-inspect. An explicit higher tier is honored; an explicit lower tier is only a hint and must be promoted when its evidence conditions or risk boundary fail.
  • Skip-gates — proceed through the root-cause confirmation gate without pausing (not recommended — see Iron Rule 2).
  • Decide-autonomously — resolve ambiguous choices without asking.
  • Worktree preference — forwarded to ss-create-branch.

Read the full file on GitHub · 227 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 227 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A e7131017f1d3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ss-troubleshooting-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository lbk-open/super-spec (1 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 3,739 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

audit

Project health audit and health check — architecture, performance, tests, dependencies, code quality. Use when assessing overall project health, before releases, or after refactors.

oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix · 35 tokens

release

CONTRIBUTOR TOOL - Cut a plugin release: bump plugin.json version, finalize CHANGELOG, update README if needed, gate on make ci, commit, tag vX.Y.Z, and create the GitHub release. Use when shipping a new plugin version. NOT distributed.

oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix · 60 tokens

catchup

Summarize and review what changed while you were away. Use after a weekend, vacation, or flight to check missed PRs, git commits, Linear tickets, and meetings — one prioritized brief, not a firehose.

oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix · 48 tokens

investigate

Investigate bugs and errors in Elixir/Phoenix — root-cause analysis for crashes, exceptions, stack traces, test failures. Use --parallel for deep 4-track investigation.

oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix · 40 tokens

narrow-bare-rescue

Narrow bare rescue in Elixir so real errors like KeyError and typos propagate instead of being swallowed. Use to audit rescues and refactor error handling.

oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix · 40 tokens

pr-review

Address feedback left on a GitHub pull request: fetch unresolved review threads, make agreed Elixir/Phoenix code fixes, reply, and resolve. Use for a PR URL/number or reviewer comments. NOT for pre-PR review, findings triage, or CI monitoring.

oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix · 59 tokens