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Superpowers: Systematic Debugging

Find the root cause of a bug in four phases before proposing any fix.

Community, verifiedby Jesse VincentChecked October 18, 2026

A Superpowers skill that stops Claude from guessing at fixes. It enforces a four-phase process: investigate, compare patterns, test a hypothesis and only then change code.

Who it is for

  • Developers
  • Vibe coders
  • QA engineers

Prompts to try

Once the skill is installed, ask for the result in plain words. Claude picks the skill up on its own.

Prompt 1
The checkout button sometimes does nothing, debug it systematically
Prompt 2
This test fails only in CI, find the root cause
Prompt 3
My app crashes after login, investigate before changing anything

How to install it

In Claude Code

  1. /plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official

In Claude.ai

Not documented

Good to know

Part of the Superpowers plugin.

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How we checked it

Confirmed SKILL.md at skills/systematic-debugging/SKILL.md in obra/superpowers via the GitHub API; skill folder last changed 2026-10-10, repo has 301,175 stars and was pushed 2026-10-10; accepted into Anthropic's official plugin marketplace as part of superpowers.

Source: github.com/obra/superpowers/tree/main/skills/systematic-debugging

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