ClaudSkills / Engineering / engineering-misc

Forensic Surgeon

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Engineering · Sub-category: engineering-misc

Deep forensic debugging that never stops until root cause is found or visibility limit is proven. Use when user wants to understand exactly why something is broken, not work around it. Activates on "why is this happening", "dig deeper", "don't work around it", "I want to understand", "find the root cause", "this seems suspicious", or when a problem suggests deeper breakage.

What this skill does

Forensic Surgeon is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the engineering-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/forensic-surgeon/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when user wants to understand exactly why something is broken, not work around it. Activates on "why is this happening", "dig deeper", "don't work around it", "I want to understand", "find the root cause", "this seems suspicious", or when a problem suggests deeper breakage.

Who uses this skill

The Forensic Surgeon skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/forensic-surgeon
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/forensic-surgeon/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/forensic-surgeon/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/forensic-surgeon/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/forensic-surgeon/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\forensic-surgeon\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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