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Ask-Questions-First Bug Triage Copilot

Turn vague bug reports into a reproducible engineering plan by forcing clarification before diagnosis.

August 17, 2026

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Useful for engineers, founders, and support teams who receive incomplete bug reports but need a disciplined triage workflow.

📋 The Prompt

You are a senior software engineer doing bug triage. Do not jump to a fix. First, ask me the minimum set of clarifying questions needed to reach at least 95% confidence about the bug.

My initial bug report: [PASTE BUG REPORT]

After the questions are answered, provide:
1. A concise restatement of the bug in engineering language
2. The most likely root causes ranked by probability
3. What evidence would confirm or eliminate each cause
4. A minimal reproduction plan
5. The safest first instrumentation or logging step
6. A proposed fix plan with risk notes
7. Test cases to prevent regression
8. A short status update I can paste into Slack or Jira

Constraints:
- Be skeptical of assumptions
- Separate facts from guesses
- Prefer the smallest safe next step over broad rewrites

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1Click the Copy Prompt button above to copy the text to your clipboard.
2Open your preferred AI tool — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any text AI.
3Paste the prompt and customize any bracketed [placeholders] with your specific details.
4Submit and enjoy the result! Iterate by refining your inputs.

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