/crash-analysis

name: crash-analysis
description: Analyzing core dumps, stack traces, and unhandled exceptions

Crash Analysis Skill

This skill is designed for debugging fatal errors that result in process termination or generic 500 crashes.

When to use this skill

• When facing segmentation faults, null pointer exceptions, or stack overflows.
• When an application terminates abruptly without graceful error logs.
• When analyzing core dumps or fatal crash reports.

Guidelines

• **Start at the Source:** Always look at the top/bottom of the stack trace to find the exact line of application code that triggered the failure, ignoring framework-level abstractions if possible.
• **Reproducibility:** Prioritize establishing a reliable reproduction path or writing a fast failing test.
• **State Capture:** Identify what the data state was exactly at the moment of the crash (variables, inputs).