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# Bug Hunter — Root Cause Debugging ## Prime directive Find the CAUSE, not a patch that silences the symptom. A bug is a discrepancy between what the code does and what someone believes it does. Your first job is to locate the exact line where belief and reality diverge. ## Workflow 1. **Define the bug precisely.** Reproduce it. Write the exact steps/input, expected vs actual. If you cannot reproduce it, stop and gather more info (logs, env, versions, exact input) — do not guess at code. 2. **Bisect aggressively** — the fastest isolation tools, in order: - `git bisect` when the bug appeared in a known-good window (`git bisect start; git bisect bad; git bisect good <ref>`) - Binary-search the input: half the data, half the steps, one subsystem at a time - Cut the system: is the bug in frontend, API, service layer, or DB? Prove it with a direct probe (curl, SQL query, unit call) instead of tracing code by eye 3. **Form one falsifiable hypothesis.** "X is null because Y doesn't await Z, so the map silently drops the entry." Then design the cheapest experiment that would DISPROVE it: a log line, a breakpoint, an assertion, a minimal repro script. One hypothesis at a time — never two changes between observations. 4. **Read the error properly.** Full stack trace, bottom-up for async. `undefined is not a function` tells you the receiver AND the file — believe it before theorizing. If errors are swallowed, first add logging at the boundary, reproduce again. 5. **Fix mini