# agent-qa-debug-fix

This skill guides agents through investigating failed agent-qa runs, pulling diagnostic artifacts, and patching the root cause in code.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 893
- Author: vostride
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/vostride/agent-qa/tree/HEAD/skills/agent-qa-debug-fix/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/agent-qa-debug-fix

## What it does

The skill establishes an evidence-driven triage procedure for failed agent-qa runs. The run verdict is just a hypothesis. The agent retrieves diagnostic artifacts via MCP tools like `agent_qa_get_run_digest`, `agent_qa_get_run_overview`, and `agent_qa_get_run_evidence`. That covers step logs, console output, aria trees, network calls, and failure screenshots.

After gathering artifacts, the agent must inspect application code and test definitions directly. Rewriting a test simply to force a green checkmark is forbidden when an artifact reveals an actual product bug. Changes should remain minimal. Any modified YAML test files must be verified with `agent_qa_refine_test` before execution.

When re-running tests, the local agent-qa server rejects `scope` arguments, so you must target specific test files using `patterns` with paths or globs. If MCP tools are offline, the agent falls back to CLI commands like `npx agent-qa runs overview` and `npx agent-qa runs evidence`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add vostride/agent-qa --skill agent-qa-debug-fix -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/agent-qa-debug-fix/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/agent-qa-debug-fix/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add vostride/agent-qa --skill agent-qa-debug-fix -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/agent-qa-debug-fix/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add vostride/agent-qa --skill agent-qa-debug-fix -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/agent-qa-debug-fix/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install vostride/agent-qa agent-qa-debug-fix
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/agent-qa-debug-fix/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add vostride/agent-qa --skill agent-qa-debug-fix -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/vostride/agent-qa --path skills/agent-qa-debug-fix
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/agent-qa-debug-fix/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add vostride/agent-qa --skill agent-qa-debug-fix -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/vostride/agent-qa/tree/HEAD/skills/agent-qa-debug-fix/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Diagnose failed agent-qa test runs using console logs and screenshots
- Extract failure evidence via MCP endpoints or the npx agent-qa CLI
- Validate modified test YAML with agent_qa_refine_test before re-running
- Re-run targeted test cases using pattern globs instead of scope

## Example prompts
- Inspect the failed agent-qa run and fetch console logs for the broken step
- Use agent-qa-debug-fix to extract the failure screenshot and identify the bug
- Validate the updated test YAML with agent_qa_refine_test and trigger a rerun

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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```text
---
name: agent-qa-debug-fix
description: Use after an agent-qa run has failed and you need to debug, patch, and verify the issue using MCP evidence, logs, artifacts, and local code changes instead of generated fix suggestions.
metadata:
  short-description: Debug and fix failed agent-qa runs
---

# agent-qa Debug Fix

## Workflow

1. Start with evidence collection:
   - `agent_qa_get_run_digest` — the run's verdicts, its post-processing chain, the outcome of its
     steps, and what it produced. This is the triage read over this surface.
   - `agent_qa_get_entity` on the run reference — the run's own card.
   - `agent_qa_get_run_overview` — every test and step with its verdict, and the address of each
     screenshot, evidence document and served record the run recorded.
   - `agent_qa_get_run_evidence` — only what the failure needs, by the overview's addresses: a
     step's console, network, a11y, aria or variables document (`"action": "runs.evidence"`), or a
     screenshot by its sha (`"action": "runs.artifact"`), which comes back as an image.
   - `agent_qa_list_runs` — recent runs, when the question is whether this failure is new.
2. Treat the digest's verdict as a hypothesis, not a conclusion — it is the reading a job produced,
   and the evidence it points at is what settles the question.
3. Identify the failing surface: test definition, hook, application under test, runtime
   infrastructure, or agent behavior.
4. Inspect the relevant application source, tests, suites and hooks directly. Do not infer
   patches from evidence alone.
5. Apply the smallest code or YAML change that explains the evidence.
6. Re-run the narrowest affected agent-qa test, suite, hook, or unit test. Name the test files
   to `agent_qa_start_run` with `patterns` (paths or globs); the local agent-qa server refuses
   `scope`.
7. Report the root cause, changed files, verification command, and any remaining risk.

## Fix Rules

- Do not invent selectors, screen states, screenshots, logs, or source files.
- Do not rewrite a test just to make it pass if the artifact shows a product or runtime defect.
- Preserve canonical agent-qa IDs when editing tests, suites, hooks, or memory files.
- Verify edited YAML with `agent_qa_refine_test`'s verify arm before re-running. It returns the same
  verdict that gates the write, and it is the only validator.
- When MCP is unavailable, use the same reads through the CLI: `npx agent-qa runs overview <runId>`,
  then `npx agent-qa runs evidence <runId> --test <n> --step <n> --kind <kind>` (add `--json` for
  the document). `npx agent-qa runs evidence <runId> --screenshot <sha> --out <file>` writes a
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