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hypothesis-elimination

Systematic elimination reasoning for diagnosis and debugging. Use when you need to identify THE cause among many possibilities through evidence-based elimination. Ideal for production incidents, bug diagnosis, root cause analysis, and differential diagnosis. Unlike BoT (which explores), HE eliminates. Example: "Server is slow" → Generate 10 hypotheses, design discriminating tests, eliminate 9, confirm 1.

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Installation and usage

Systematic elimination reasoning for diagnosis and debugging. Use when you need to identify THE cause among many possibilities through evidence-based elimination. Ideal for production incidents, bug diagnosis, root cause analysis, and differential diagnosis. Unlike BoT (which explores), HE eliminates. Example: "Server is slow" → Generate 10 hypotheses, design discriminating tests, eliminate 9, confirm 1.

Installation
$ install --globalskills.sh
Usage

Once installed, you can use this skill by running the following command in your terminal:

skills use hypothesis-elimination