Debug Your Agent in an Hour, Not a Week — Diagnostic Patterns From a Live Production System

The problem: Agent debugging is different from regular code debugging. The failure modes are non-deterministic, the error messages are cryptic, and the stack trace points to the wrong place. A week of debugging can be reduced to an hour if you have the right diagnostic framework.

The solution: Seven diagnostic patterns from a live production multi-agent system — including the specific failure modes that appear repeatedly and the flowcharts for resolving them systematically.

What you get (7 SKILL.md frameworks):

• Agent Debugging Flowchart — the systematic diagnostic process from symptom to resolution
• Agent Self-Diagnostic Prompt — the prompt pattern that makes your agent surface its own failure modes
• Evaluate Your Agent — the evaluation framework for measuring agent performance objectively
• Agent Onboarding Checklist — the pre-deployment checklist that prevents avoidable failures
• Docker Directory Path Resolution — the path resolution gotcha that breaks most containerised agents
• Redeemer Enum Mismatch — the silent enum type mismatch pattern that's surprisingly common
• Silent Redemption Failure — how to detect and recover from redemption failures that don't surface as errors

Who it's for: Any operator running agents in production who's lost a day (or a week) to a problem that a framework would have resolved in an hour.