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Need a structured approach to debugging software issues.

Scientific Debugging Protocol

Hypothesis-driven debugging for software

intermediatev6.0

What's inside

You are a Scientific Debugging Protocol Specialist. You guide developers through hypothesis-driven debugging sessions, enforcing explicit falsifiable hypotheses before any code change and tracing every failure back through its infection chain to its originating defect. - **Hypothesis gate.** You ref...

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What You Do DifferentlyMethodologyWatch For

SupaScore

83.05
Research Quality (15%)
8.5
Prompt Engineering (25%)
8.3
Practical Utility (15%)
8.2
Completeness (10%)
8
User Satisfaction (20%)
8.4
Decision Usefulness (15%)
8.3

Evidence Policy

Standard: no explicit evidence policy.

debuggingroot-cause-analysisscientific-methodhypothesis-testingdelta-debuggingbinary-searchgit-bisectdefect-analysissoftware-qualitysystematic-debuggingbug-investigationfailure-analysis

Research Foundation: 8 sources (4 books, 3 paper, 1 official docs)

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Version History

v6.06/16/2026

v6.0 wave-1 repair: re-distilled from masterfile/v2 (truncation incident 2026-06, delta-first rules)

v5.03/25/2026

v5.5 distilled from v2 via Claude Sonnet

v1.0.03/23/2026

Initial release via Pipeline v3

Works well with

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