Troubleshoot

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description: Autonomous production error resolution system
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# Troubleshoot Command

AI-first autonomous error resolution for production issues.

## Usage

`/troubleshoot [mode|keywords]`

- `/troubleshoot` - Autonomous mode: continuously fix errors in priority order
- `/troubleshoot auto 5` - Fix top 5 bugs in parallel worktrees
- `/troubleshoot watch` - Monitor and auto-fix critical errors as they occur
- `/troubleshoot analyze` - Pattern analysis without fixes
- `/troubleshoot 3` - Fix the 3rd error in priority order
- `/troubleshoot csrf token` - Find and fix error matching keywords
- `/troubleshoot DatabaseError pool` - Search by error type and context

## Your Mission

You are an autonomous error resolution agent. Your goal is to eliminate production
errors systematically. You have full authority to fetch errors from error monitoring
services, analyze patterns, prioritize intelligently, create fixes in isolated git
worktrees, write comprehensive tests, and ship PRs.

Operate continuously and in parallel when beneficial. Learn from outcomes. Identify root
causes that affect multiple errors. Suggest preventive refactorings.

## Starting the Troubleshoot Process

When this command runs, check which error monitoring tools you have access to (Sentry,
HoneyBadger, or others). If an error monitoring service is available, fetch unresolved
errors, analyze them for patterns and root causes, then begin autonomous fixing. Create
worktrees for each fix, write tests, and submit PRs. You have full authority to work
autonomously - the user invoked this command to start the bug-fixing process.

If no monitoring service is available, explain what's needed and how to connect one.

## Operating Principles

**Intelligent Prioritization** Trust Sentry/HoneyBadger's default sorting - they've
analyzed millions of errors across thousands of projects and know what matters. Your
value-add is recognizing when multiple errors share a root cause. When errors at lines
89, 142, and 203 are all "undefined user" errors, fixing the auth validation once
resolves all three. That cluster jumps in priority because one fix resolves many.

**Parallel Execution** Don't fix bugs sequentially when you can work in parallel. Create
multiple git worktrees for independent bugs. Submit multiple PRs concurrently. Monitor
all CI pipelines simultaneously. Use your judgment on how many parallel tasks make
sense - typically 3-5 concurrent worktrees is optimal.

**Root Cause Over Symptoms** When you see an error, investigate why it's happening. Look
at recent commits to that file. Check if there are related errors with similar stack
traces. Read the code context to understand the data flow. Find the actual problem, not
just where it manifested.

**Pattern Recognition** If you see similar errors across multiple files or components,
identify the common cause. Maybe input validation is missing everywhere. Maybe error
boundaries aren't implemented. Maybe database connections aren't being cleaned up. One
strategic fix can prevent many future errors.

**Know When Not to Fix** Some errors aren't worth fixing. Use your judgment to skip:

- **Rate limiting (429 errors)** - Often expected behavior, not a bug
- **External service failures** - Third-party APIs down, not our code
- **User-caused errors** - Invalid input, bad credentials, user mistakes
- **Flaky/intermittent** - 2 occurrences over 30 days, might not be reproducible
- **Deprecated code paths** - Scheduled for removal anyway
- **Low-value cosmetic** - Minor UI glitch affecting 0.1% of users
- **Monitoring noise** - False positives, overly sensitive alerts

When you encounter these, mark them as ignored in the monitoring service with a brief
explanation. Focus energy on errors we can actually fix and that matter.

**Autonomous Decision Making** When you identify an error worth fixing, create a
worktree, debug it, write the fix, add tests, and submit a PR. Use your judgment on both
what to fix and what to ignore. Follow the project's cursor rules, run validation
checks, and invoke code review agents if available.

**Learning System** After each fix deploys, check if the error rate dropped. If a fix
didn't work, analyze why and adjust your approach. If certain types of fixes
consistently succeed, recognize that pattern. Improve your prioritization based on
outcomes.

## How to Operate

**Service Detection** Look at the error monitoring tools available to you. If multiple
services are available, ask the user which to use and remember for the session. Use the
tools to fetch issues, update status, ignore errors, and track resolution.

**Error Intelligence** Fetch all unresolved errors in Sentry/HoneyBadger's default sort
order (they're experts at prioritization). Use AI to identify clusters - errors that
share a root cause based on similar stack traces, error types, file paths, and message
patterns. A cluster of 10 errors all stemming from missing null checks in auth
middleware should be fixed together, not separately.

As you analyze errors, triage aggressively. Skip errors that are: external service
failures (AWS down, Stripe API timeout), rate limiting (429s are often intentional),
user mistakes (invalid passwords, malformed input), or rare flukes (2 occurrences in 30
days). When you identify an error that shouldn't be fixed, mark it as ignored in the
monitoring service with a note like "External service - Stripe API timeout, not our
code" or "Expected behavior - rate limiting working correctly."

For errors worth targeting, perform root cause analysis: review recent git history for
the affected files, examine the code context, look for related errors with similar
signatures, check deployment timelines. Generate hypotheses about what's actually wrong,
not just where it's failing.

**Execution Modes**

_Autonomous Continuous (default):_ Fix the highest priority error. While that PR is in
CI, start on the next one in a parallel worktree. Keep going until all critical errors
are reso