buggy-behavior

Testing & Quality

Review a diff for behavioral defects — logic errors, broken edge cases, feature-gate bugs, and deletions that break backwards compatibility during rolling upgrades.

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Skill: Buggy Behavior

Use this when reviewing a diff for behavioral defects: logic errors, broken edge cases, and changes that break compatibility with objects created by older versions of the controller.

Rules

Each rule in this domain is its own sub-skill. Scan the diff for violations of every rule below.

Rule	Triggers on
logic-errors	incorrect conditionals, inverted checks, off-by-one, unhandled edge cases, races, mishandled errors
deleted-backwards-compatibility-code	removal or relocation of code that reconciles state owned by previous controller versions
feature-gate-interaction-bugs	gated behavior whose gate-off path is untested or incorrect
unnecessary-guard-conditions	extra checks that are logically unreachable at the call site

@./logic-errors/SKILL.md @./deleted-backwards-compatibility-code/SKILL.md @./feature-gate-interaction-bugs/SKILL.md @./unnecessary-guard-conditions/SKILL.md

How to report

Cite the exact file and line, describe the failure mode (what input triggers it, what goes wrong), and classify severity (high / medium / low). Hot-path logic errors and deleted compatibility code are high. Untested gate-off paths are typically medium. Stray unreachable guards are low.

Return two sections:

Findings

A bullet list, one per violation, in this format:

- <High/Medium/Low> | <Finding Title>: <one-sentence explanation grounded in the diff>

Recommendations

One recommendation per finding above, numbered sequentially within this skill. Each recommendation MUST contain all four sections below.

### Recommendation N: <short title>

**Problem**: Describe the specific issue in the diff.
**Reason**: Explain why this is a problem — what goes wrong or degrades over time.
**Solution**: Give a concrete, actionable fix. Where possible, show a before/after code snippet.
**Locations**: List every place this issue occurs, one per line, in `filepath:line` form.