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Bug Hunt Investigation Prompt
May 1, 2026
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claude-opus-4-7
Production bugs, mysterious failures, intermittent issues
There's a bug in [PROJECT/COMPONENT]. The symptom is: [DESCRIBE SYMPTOM]. Do not fix it yet. First, INVESTIGATE: 1. Read the relevant files. List file paths and line numbers you suspect. 2. Form 3 hypotheses about the root cause, ranked by likelihood. 3. For each hypothesis, describe how you'd verify it (a test, a log, a manual check). 4. Recommend the cheapest verification path to start with. Report back with the investigation summary. I'll tell you which hypothesis to verify first. Then we fix.
Forces hypothesis-driven debugging instead of \"try a fix and see\". Saves token budget.
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