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Turn a vague bug report into a VERIFIED minimal reproduction and then a failing regression test, agent-driven end to end. Covers extracting the implicit repro f
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Turn a vague bug report into a VERIFIED minimal reproduction and then a failing regression test, agent-driven end to end. Covers extracting the implicit repro from a thin report (env, build, steps, data), the reproduce-minimize-isolate-capture loop, git bisect to find the introducing commit, building a deterministic minimal repro (fixed seeds, frozen time, stubbed network), writing the failing regression test BEFORE the fix (red) and confirming the fix flips it green, and writing repro evidence back into the ticket. Distinguishes flaky-not-reproducible from environment-specific. Use when: "reproduce this bug," "minimal reproduction," "repro steps," "find the commit that broke it," "git bisect," "make the repro deterministic," "write a failing test for this bug," "regression test for a defect," "can't reproduce this bug." Not for: Classifying/deduplicating/severity-routing existing failures without reproducing them — that is ai-bug-triage. Generating tests from specs rather than from a
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A bug you cannot reproduce is a bug you cannot fix or prove fixed. This skill takes a
thin, hand-wavy report ("order total is wrong sometimes") and drives it to a VERIFIED
minimal reproduction, a deterministic failing test written BEFORE the fix, a `git bisect`
that names the introducing commit, and a structured evidence block in the ticket. The
discipline it enforces: reproduce before theorizing, minimize one cut at a time, freeze
time/seed/network so the repro fails identically every run, watch the test go red first,
and confirm the fix flips it green — and that reverting the fix turns it red again.
Quick Route
| You have… | Go to |
|---|---|
| A thin report and no idea how to trigger it | Step 1: Extract the implicit repro |
| A messy 14-step repro to clean up | Step 2: The reproduce-minimize-isolate-capture loop |
| "Worked last month, broken now" | Step 3: Bisect to the introducing commit |
| A repro that passes/fails inconsistently | Step 4: Make the repro deterministic |
| A clean repro, no fix yet | Step 5: Write the failing regression test (red) first |
| "The dev says it's fixed, test is green" | Step 6: Verify the fix actually fixes it |
| "It won't reproduce for me but does for the user" | Step 7: Flaky vs environment vs not-reproducible |
| Repro + test done | Step 8: Write the evidence back into the ticket |
Discovery Questions
First, check .agents/qa-project-context.md in the project root — it carries the tech
stack, test runner, known-flaky areas, and environment matrix. Pass over any question it
already answers. If it is missing, suggest creating one with the qa-project-context skill.
- What is the report, verbatim? The thinner it is, the more you must extract before touching code — a one-line report sets the whole intake agenda (Step 1).
- Does it reproduce at all yet, and how reliably? "Every time" vs "sometimes" decides whether you go straight to minimizing or into determinism work first.
- Did it ever work? A known-good past release unlocks
git bisectto the introducing commit; no known-good point means you debug forward instead. - What is the test runner and stack? Vitest/Jest vs Playwright changes the determinism
API (
vi.setSystemTimevspage.clock) and where the regression test lands. - What are the non-determinism sources? Time-of-day rules, randomness, third-party APIs, locale — each must be pinned for the repro to be trustworthy.
Core Principles
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Reproduce before you theorize. The strongest wrong instinct is to read a symptom and jump to a root cause ("sounds like a float rounding bug, let me patch the total calc"). Don't. Extract the repro, make it fail on demand, and only then form a hypothesis. A fix without a reproduction is a guess you can't falsify.
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A repro is a deterministic artifact, not a story. "It happens around midnight with a random code" is a story. Freeze the clock, seed the RNG, and stub the network so the same inputs produce the same failure on every run and every machine. If it isn't deterministic, you can't bisect it, test it, or prove it fixed.
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Minimize one variable at a time, and re-confirm after every cut. Shrinking the repro is a search, not a rewrite. Remove one step, data field, or dependency, then re-run and confirm it still reproduces. Removing several at once tells you nothing about which one mattered.
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The regression test is written RED, before the fix. Assert the real expected value, watch it fail first (proving it catches this bug), then watch the fix flip it green. A test added after the fix, or one disabled / marked pending, proves nothing.
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Green isn't done — revert-to-verify is. A passing test can pass for the wrong reason. Temporarily remove the fix and confirm the test goes red again. Only a test that fails without the fix actually guards against the bug.
Step 1: Extract the implicit repro
A thin report ("Checkout is broken, order total is wrong sometimes") names a symptom, not a path. Before any code, extract or ask for every reproducibility dimension. Never invent the repro steps from imagination, and never theorize a root cause yet — both come after the bug reproduces.
For a "wrong total" / data-correctness bug, the load-bearing dimensions a thin report most often omits are:
- Exact steps to reproduce — the click-by-click path, not "checkout is broken."
- Build / version / commit (git SHA) — they may be on a build where it's already fixed.
- Environment — browser + version, OS, device.
- Input data — cart contents, quantities, the account/user, coupon, the exact fixture. A total is a pure function of its inputs; without them you are guessing.
- Expected vs actual — the number they expected and the number they saw.
- Frequency — every time, or intermittent? "Sometimes" points at non-determinism.
- Locale / timezone / currency — rounding, tax, and formatting are locale-specific; a
total "wrong" in
de-DEmay be correct inen-US. - Timestamp of occurrence, plus any logs/screenshots/network trace.
Write these into a single repro spec before touching code. If a row is blank, that is your next question to the reporter — not a license to start writing the fix or theorizing.
See references/intake.md for the full extraction checklist, why each load-bearing
dimension matters for "wrong total," and the repro-spec template.
Step 2: The reproduce→minimize→isolate→capture loop
Given a confirmed-but-messy repro (e.g. 14 manual UI steps across 3 pages), do not hand the 14-step version to the developer and do not rewrite it wholesale. Run this loop:
- REPRODUCE / confirm. First establish a baseline: run the full repro and confirm it actually fails. You can only minimize something that currently reproduces.
- MINIMIZE. Remove one step, field, or dependency. Re-run. If it still reproduces, keep the cut; if it no longer fails, that element was load-bearing — restore it. Repeat, one variable at a time, until every remaining piece is necessary. This is the core ordering rule: never minimize before confirming it reproduces, and never omit verifying it still fails after each cut.
- ISOLATE. Narrow the failure to the smallest layer that still shows it — drop from a 3-page UI flow to a single page, then to a unit/API call against the offending function if the bug lives below the UI.
- CAPTURE. Record the now-minimal repro as evidence: the smallest steps or the single command, plus logs/trace/screenshot. This is what the developer and the regression test consume.
The output is the smallest sequence that still reproduces — not the original walkthrough.
Step 3: Bisect to the introducing commit
The bug is on HEAD but a past release was clean, and you have a command that exits
non-zero when the bug is present. Use git bisect run to binary-search history
automatically — do not manually check out each commit, and do not use git revert to hunt
for it.
git bisect start
git bisect bad HEAD # current commit has the bug (alias: git bisect new)
git bisect good v2.4.0 # last clean release (alias: git bisect old)
git bisect run npm test -- checkout-total.spec.ts # ONE targeted test, never the full suite
# bisect prints "<sha> is the first bad commit"
git bisect reset # ALWAYS clean up — restores the original HEAD
The exit-code contract git bisect run uses: exit code 0 = good (bug absent),
non-zero (1–124) = bad (bug present), exit 125 = skip (untestable). So your command
must return 0 when the feature is fine and non-zero when the bug reproduces — most runners
already do this. Run one targeted test, not npm test:all / the whole suite: an
unrelated failure at an old commit would mark it bad and send the search down the wrong half.
The good/bad pair assumes a regression (good in the past, bad now). The old/new
aliases mean the same search and read better when hunting any state transition.
See references/bisect.md for the full happy path and the skip/untestable wrapper.
Bisect skip and determinism (untestable or flaky commits)
Two things corrupt a naive bisect, and the default bad answer — "exit 1 on any failure" — walks into both:
- Old commits won't build. A compile error exits 1, which bisect reads as "bug present"
and marks a clean commit bad. Wrong: an unbuildable commit is untestable — your
wrapper script must
exit 125(skip) on build failure, distinguishing it from a real bad commit. - Flaky network/timing failures. A transient un-stubbed third-party call exits 1 and
gets blamed. Force determinism during bisect — stub the network, pin
TZ, seed the RNG — so only the real bug can fail the step. If a commit's result flips between runs, treat it as untestable (exit 125), not bad.
Wrap the step in a script that returns 0 = good, 1 = bad, 125 = skip (the valid bad
range is 1–127 excluding 125), guards the build, stubs the network, and retries once to
catch flakiness. Then git bisect run ./bisect-step.sh. Full wrapper in
references/bisect.md.
Step 4: Make the repro deterministic
The bug "only around midnight, with a random discount code, via a third-party pricing API"
has three non-determinism sources. Pin all three so it fails the same way every single
run — do not wait for midnight, do not let it hit the real pricing API, and never use a
sleep/setTimeout/waitForTimeout to paper over timing.
| Source | Vitest | Playwright |
|---|---|---|
| Time | vi.useFakeTimers() + vi.setSystemTime(new Date('…')) | page.clock.install({ time }) + page.clock.setFixedTime(…) |
| Randomness | faker.seed(1337) (or stub Math.random) | seed the app's RNG via an init hook |
| Network | MSW setupServer + http.get → HttpResponse.json | page.route(...) → route.fulfill(...) |
Key points:
- Vitest:
vi.setSystemTimeonly works aftervi.useFakeTimers(). Seed faker inbeforeEach. Set MSWonUnhandledRequest: 'error'so a missed stub fails loudly. - Playwright:
page.clock.install/`setFixedT
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name: bug-reproduction description: >- Turn a vague bug report into a VERIFIED minimal reproduction and then a failing regression test, agent-driven end to end. Covers extracting the implicit repro from a thin report (env, build, steps, data), the reproduce-minimize-isolate-capture loop, git bisect to find the introducing commit, building a deterministic minimal repro (fixed seeds, frozen time, stubbed network), writing the failing regression test BEFORE the fix (red) and confirming the fix flips it green, and writing repro evidence back into the ticket. Distinguishes flaky-not-reproducible from environment-specific. Use when: "reproduce this bug," "minimal reproduction," "repro steps," "find the commit that broke it," "git bisect," "make the repro deterministic," "write a failing test for this bug," "regression test for a defect," "can't reproduce this bug." Not for: Classifying/deduplicating/severity-routing existing failures without reproducing them — that is ai-bug-triage. Generating tests from specs rather than from a defect — that is ai-test-generation. Related: ai-bug-triage, ai-test-generation, test-reliability, systematic-debugging, qa-project-context. license: MIT metadata: author: kindlmann version: "1.0" category: ai-qa
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---
name: bug-reproduction
description: >-
Turn a vague bug report into a VERIFIED minimal reproduction and then a failing
regression test, agent-driven end to end. Covers extracting the implicit repro from a
thin report (env, build, steps, data), the reproduce-minimize-isolate-capture loop,
git bisect to find the introducing commit, building a deterministic minimal repro
(fixed seeds, frozen time, stubbed network), writing the failing regression test BEFORE
the fix (red) and confirming the fix flips it green, and writing repro evidence back
into the ticket. Distinguishes flaky-not-reproducible from environment-specific.
Use when: "reproduce this bug," "minimal reproduction," "repro steps," "find the commit
that broke it," "git bisect," "make the repro deterministic," "write a failing test for
this bug," "regression test for a defect," "can't reproduce this bug."
Not for: Classifying/deduplicating/severity-routing existing failures without
reproducing them — that is ai-bug-triage. Generating tests from specs rather than from a
defect — that is ai-test-generation.
Related: ai-bug-triage, ai-test-generation, test-reliability, systematic-debugging, qa-project-context.
license: MIT
metadata:
author: kindlmann
version: "1.0"
category: ai-qa
---
<objective>
A bug you cannot reproduce is a bug you cannot fix or prove fixed. This skill takes a
thin, hand-wavy report ("order total is wrong sometimes") and drives it to a VERIFIED
minimal reproduction, a deterministic failing test written BEFORE the fix, a `git bisect`
that names the introducing commit, and a structured evidence block in the ticket. The
discipline it enforces: reproduce before theorizing, minimize one cut at a time, freeze
time/seed/network so the repro fails identically every run, watch the test go red first,
and confirm the fix flips it green — and that reverting the fix turns it red again.
</objective>
## Quick Route
| You have… | Go to |
|-----------|-------|
| A thin report and no idea how to trigger it | [Step 1: Extract the implicit repro](#step-1-extract-the-implicit-repro) |
| A messy 14-step repro to clean up | [Step 2: The reproduce-minimize-isolate-capture loop](#step-2-the-reproduceminimizeisolatecapture-loop) |
| "Worked last month, broken now" | [Step 3: Bisect to the introducing commit](#step-3-bisect-to-the-introducing-commit) |
| A repro that passes/fails inconsistently | [Step 4: Make the repro deterministic](#step-4-make-the-repro-deterministic) |
| A clean repro, no fix yet | [Step 5: Write the failing regression test (red) first](#step-5-write-the-failing-regression-test-red-first) |
| "The dev says it's fixed, test is green" | [Step 6: Verify the fix actually fixes it](#step-6-verify-the-fix-actually-fixes-it) |
| "It won't reproduce for me but does for the user" | [Step 7: Flaky vs environment vs not-reproducible](#step-7-flaky-vs-environment-vs-not-reproducible) |
| Repro + test done | [Step 8: Write the evidence back into the ticket](#step-8-write-the-evidence-back-into-the-ticket) |
## Discovery Questions
First, check `.agents/qa-project-context.md` in the project root — it carries the tech
stack, test runner, known-flaky areas, and environment matrix. Pass over any question it
already answers. If it is missing, suggest creating one with the `qa-project-context` skill.
- **What is the report, verbatim?** The thinner it is, the more you must extract before
touching code — a one-line report sets the whole intake agenda (Step 1).
- **Does it reproduce at all yet, and how reliably?** "Every time" vs "sometimes" decides
whether you go straight to minimizing or into determinism work first.
- **Did it ever work?** A known-good past release unlocks `git bisect` to the introducing
commit; no known-good point means you debug forward instead.
- **What is the test runner and stack?** Vitest/Jest vs Playwright changes the determinism
API (`vi.setSystemTime` vs `page.clock`) and where the regression test lands.
- **What are the non-determinism sources?** Time-of-day rules, randomness, third-party
APIs, locale — each must be pinned for the repro to be trustworthy.
---
## Core Principles
1. **Reproduce before you theorize.** The strongest wrong instinct is to read a symptom
and jump to a root cause ("sounds like a float rounding bug, let me patch the total
calc"). Don't. Extract the repro, make it fail on demand, and only then form a
hypothesis. A fix without a reproduction is a guess you can't falsify.
2. **A repro is a deterministic artifact, not a story.** "It happens around midnight with a
random code" is a story. Freeze the clock, seed the RNG, and stub the network so the
same inputs produce the same failure on every run and every machine. If it isn't
deterministic, you can't bisect it, test it, or prove it fixed.
3. **Minimize one variable at a time, and re-confirm after every cut.** Shrinking the repro
is a search, not a rewrite. Remove one step, data field, or dependency, then re-run and
confirm it *still reproduces*. Removing several at once tells you nothing about which one
mattered.
4. **The regression test is written RED, before the fix.** Assert the real expected value,
watch it fail first (proving it catches *this* bug), then watch the fix flip it green.
A test added after the fix, or one disabled / marked pending, proves nothing.
5. **Green isn't done — revert-to-verify is.** A passing test can pass for the wrong
reason. Temporarily remove the fix and confirm the test goes red again. Only a test that
fails without the fix actually guards against the bug.
---
## Step 1: Extract the implicit repro
A thin report ("Checkout is broken, order total is wrong sometimes") names a symptom, not a
path. Before any code, extract or ask for every reproducibility dimension. Never invent the
repro steps from imagination, and never theorize a root cause yet — both come after the bug
reproduces.
For a "wrong total" / data-correctness bug, the load-bearing dimensions a thin report most
often omits are:
- **Exact steps to reproduce** — the click-by-click path, not "checkout is broken."
- **Build / version / commit (git SHA)** — they may be on a build where it's already fixed.
- **Environment** — browser + version, OS, device.
- **Input data** — cart contents, quantities, the account/user, coupon, the exact fixture.
A total is a pure function of its inputs; without them you are guessing.
- **Expected vs actual** — the number they expected and the number they saw.
- **Frequency** — every time, or intermittent? "Sometimes" points at non-determinism.
- **Locale / timezone / currency** — rounding, tax, and formatting are locale-specific; a
total "wrong" in `de-DE` may be correct in `en-US`.
- **Timestamp** of occurrence, plus any logs/screenshots/network trace.
Write these into a single repro spec before touching code. If a row is blank, that is your
next question to the reporter — not a license to start writing the fix or theorizing.
See `references/intake.md` for the full extraction checklist, why each load-bearing
dimension matters for "wrong total," and the repro-spec template.
---
## Step 2: The reproduce→minimize→isolate→capture loop
Given a confirmed-but-messy repro (e.g. 14 manual UI steps across 3 pages), do **not** hand
the 14-step version to the developer and do **not** rewrite it wholesale. Run this loop:
1. **REPRODUCE / confirm.** First establish a baseline: run the full repro and confirm it
actually fails. You can only minimize something that currently reproduces.
2. **MINIMIZE.** Remove **one** step, field, or dependency. Re-run. If it *still reproduces*,
keep the cut; if it no longer fails, that element was load-bearing — restore it. Repeat,
one variable at a time, until every remaining piece is necessary. This is the core
ordering rule: never minimize before confirming it reproduces, and never omit verifying
it still fails after each cut.
3. **ISOLATE.** Narrow the failure to the smallest layer that still shows it — drop from a
3-page UI flow to a single page, then to a unit/API call against the offending function
if the bug lives below the UI.
4. **CAPTURE.** Record the now-**minimal** repro as evidence: the smallest steps or the
single command, plus logs/trace/screenshot. This is what the developer and the
regression test consume.
The output is the *smallest* sequence that still reproduces — not the original walkthrough.
---
## Step 3: Bisect to the introducing commit
The bug is on `HEAD` but a past release was clean, and you have a command that exits
**non-zero when the bug is present**. Use `git bisect run` to binary-search history
automatically — do not manually check out each commit, and do not use `git revert` to hunt
for it.
```sh
git bisect start
git bisect bad HEAD # current commit has the bug (alias: git bisect new)
git bisect good v2.4.0 # last clean release (alias: git bisect old)
git bisect run npm test -- checkout-total.spec.ts # ONE targeted test, never the full suite
# bisect prints "<sha> is the first bad commit"
git bisect reset # ALWAYS clean up — restores the original HEAD
```
The exit-code contract `git bisect run` uses: **exit code 0 = good** (bug absent),
**non-zero (1–124) = bad** (bug present), **exit 125 = skip** (untestable). So your command
must return 0 when the feature is fine and non-zero when the bug reproduces — most runners
already do this. Run **one targeted test**, not `npm test:all` / the whole suite: an
unrelated failure at an old commit would mark it bad and send the search down the wrong half.
The `good`/`bad` pair assumes a regression (good in the past, bad now). The `old`/`new`
aliases mean the same search and read better when hunting any state transition.
See `references/bisect.md` for the full happy path and the skip/untestable wrapper.
### Bisect skip and determinism (untestable or flaky commits)
Two things corrupt a naive bisect, and the default bad answer — "exit 1 on any failure" —
walks into both:
- **Old commits won't build.** A compile error exits 1, which bisect reads as "bug present"
and marks a clean commit bad. Wrong: an unbuildable commit is **untestable** — your
wrapper script must `exit 125` (skip) on build failure, distinguishing it from a real
bad commit.
- **Flaky network/timing failures.** A transient un-stubbed third-party call exits 1 and
gets blamed. Force determinism *during* bisect — stub the network, pin `TZ`, seed the
RNG — so only the real bug can fail the step. If a commit's result flips between runs,
treat it as untestable (`exit 125`), not bad.
Wrap the step in a script that returns **0 = good, 1 = bad, 125 = skip** (the valid bad
range is 1–127 *excluding* 125), guards the build, stubs the network, and retries once to
catch flakiness. Then `git bisect run ./bisect-step.sh`. Full wrapper in
`references/bisect.md`.
---
## Step 4: Make the repro deterministic
The bug "only around midnight, with a random discount code, via a third-party pricing API"
has three non-determinism sources. Pin all three so it **fails the same way every single
run** — do not wait for midnight, do not let it hit the real pricing API, and never use a
`sleep`/`setTimeout`/`waitForTimeout` to paper over timing.
| Source | Vitest | Playwright |
|--------|--------|-----------|
| **Time** | `vi.useFakeTimers()` + `vi.setSystemTime(new Date('…'))` | `page.clock.install({ time })` + `page.clock.setFixedTime(…)` |
| **Randomness** | `faker.seed(1337)` (or stub `Math.random`) | seed the app's RNG via an init hook |
| **Network** | MSW `setupServer` + `http.get` → `HttpResponse.json` | `page.route(...)` → `route.fulfill(...)` |
Key points:
- **Vitest:** `vi.setSystemTime` only works after `vi.useFakeTimers()`. Seed faker in
`beforeEach`. Set MSW `onUnhandledRequest: 'error'` so a missed stub fails loudly.
- **Playwright:** `page.clock.install`/`setFixedTReview the source
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