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recover

When something goes wrong during a build, diagnose what type of failure it is before deciding how to respond. Targeted fix, hard reset, or full rethink — the right response depends on the right diagnosis.

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Not every problem is a bug. Not every bug needs debugging.

When something goes wrong with AI-assisted development, the instinct is to keep prompting — describe the problem, ask for a fix, get another broken version, describe that problem, ask for another fix. The session gets longer. The context gets polluted. The code gets worse.

The problem is not the code. The problem is not knowing what type of failure you are dealing with.

This skill diagnoses the failure first. Then it prescribes the right response. Those are two separate steps and they cannot be swapped.

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## Step 1 — Describe What Went Wrong

The developer describes the problem. The skill listens before doing anything else.