Claude Code
Best for: Serious work on real repos
Anthropic's agent for your terminal, IDE and desktop. Reads the whole repo, runs commands and tests, and handles large multi-file changes well.
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Turn a bug report into a tested fix
“A user reported a bug and I don't know where to start.”
Make the agent reproduce the bug first. A fix you can't reproduce isn't a fix.
Fix it yourself in 3 steps
- Paste the bug report and point the agent at the repo.
- Use the loop prompt: reproduce, find the cause, smallest fix, prove it.
- Read the before/after proof, then merge.
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Here's a bug report: [report]. Reproduce it in the smallest way you can and show me the failing output. Find the root cause, make the smallest fix, and rerun the reproduction plus related tests. Don't refactor unrelated code. If you can't reproduce it after two serious tries, stop and tell me what you need. Finish with cause, changed files, before/after proof and risks.
Fill in the [brackets]. Each prompt says when the AI should stop, so it doesn't wander off.
Inspired by real examples collected at signals.forwardfuture.com.
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