troubleshooting-whats-not-working

troubleshooting-whats-not-working is a skill for Claude Code from redhuntlabs/wizard. It costs 33 tokens per session (974 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided troubleshooting skill for finding the cause of something that is broken or producing the wrong result. It uses observed evidence and checks the proposed fix.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to diagnose software bugs, malfunctioning devices, stalled projects, or other situations where the expected and actual results differ.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with a repeatable process based on the exact symptom, recent changes, and focused tests.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the wizard plugin — 37 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to diagnose software bugs, malfunctioning devices, stalled projects, or other situations where the expected and actual results differ.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/redhuntlabs/wizard/troubleshooting-whats-not-working
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add redhuntlabs/wizard --skill troubleshooting-whats-not-working
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/redhuntlabs/wizard

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install wizard, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 974 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00033 $0.00974
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00487
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00097

Measured 11d ago against content hash d130df5808b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

troubleshooting-whats-not-working 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 11d 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.

spells/everyday/troubleshooting-whats-not-working/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Troubleshooting What's Not Working

What this does

Walks you from "something is wrong" to a verified diagnosis using evidence, not guesses. Works for software bugs, broken appliances, stalled projects, or interpersonal issues.

When to use

  • Something stopped working that used to work
  • Something is producing the wrong result
  • A plan isn't going as expected and you can't tell why

What you bring (Inputs)

  • Description of what you expected to happen
  • Description of what actually happened
  • When it last worked / when the symptom started

What you get (Output)

A diagnosis (the cause) plus a verified fix attempt or, if unfixable yet, a clear "next thing to test."

How it works (Steps)

This is a guided workflow.

Stages

Stage 1: State the symptom precisely

Write one sentence: "When X, I expect Y, but I get Z." If you can't write this sentence, the symptom isn't precise enough yet. Sharpen.

Stage 2: Capture the recent change

What changed since this last worked? Be specific: "I updated the app" or "we moved offices" or "she started a new job." If "nothing changed," challenge that — something always did.

Stage 3: Bisect

Find the smallest scenario that still produces the symptom. Strip away anything optional. The smaller the failing case, the easier the cause is to see.

Stage 4: Form one hypothesis

State: "I think the cause is X because of evidence Y." One hypothesis at a time.

Stage 5: Test the hypothesis

Design a check that would prove the hypothesis wrong if it's wrong. Run the check. Record what you observed.

Stage 6: Decide

  • Hypothesis confirmed → proceed to fix and verify the fix actually fixed it
  • Hypothesis disproved → return to Stage 4 with a new hypothesis (don't recycle the old one)
  • Hypothesis inconclusive → tighten the test in Stage 5

Stage 7: Verify the fix

After fixing: reproduce the original symptom scenario. The symptom must be gone. Otherwise the fix didn't fix it (despite what you'd like to believe).

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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. 11d ago First seen · 110 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A d130df5808b6

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troubleshooting-whats-not-working is a skill published in the GitHub repository redhuntlabs/wizard (9 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 974 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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