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[Skill] WinDbg — crash dump & Time Travel Debugging #128

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@Jaylyn-Barbee

Parent: #126

Summary

A guidance skill that teaches an agent how to debug Windows crashes with WinDbg / CDB, including Time Travel Debugging (TTD) traces and post-mortem .dmp analysis — so the agent moves through the problem with less guessing.

What the skill should teach the agent

  • How to load & triage a crash dump (.dmp): find the faulting thread, read the exception record, interpret !analyze -v.
  • Symbol setup (_NT_SYMBOL_PATH, symbol servers) and how to spot wrong symbols.
  • Time Travel Debugging: capture a trace, navigate (!tt, step back), locate first-bad-state.
  • Command cheatsheet with when-to-use notes (k, ~, lm, !teb, !peb, dx).
  • When to hand off to the WinUI runtime error diagnostics skill.

Deliverables

  • Skill (SKILL.md + supporting guidance files) under plugins/.
  • Example walkthroughs (a native crash, a managed/WinRT crash).

Open questions

  • Skill only for now; a live-debugger MCP server is a separate future item.

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