DENDRITE

Debug Engine for Natural Discovery, Root Isolation & Trace Elimination. Biomimetic 7-phase methodology that finds root causes with mathematical precision.

Install

myclaude install dendrite

Usage

/dendrite [describe the bug or paste the error]

Examples

/dendrite NullPointerException at parser.java:142 after config migration
/dendrite Tests pass locally but fail in CI — flaky, non-deterministic
/dendrite Users report intermittent 500 errors on checkout endpoint
/dendrite --mode=deep Production database queries suddenly 10x slower after deploy

Modes

How It Works

DENDRITE operates in 7 phases inspired by the immune system's response cycle:

1. PRESERVE — Snapshot state before any intervention (forensic preservation)
2. CLASSIFY — Triage the bug's domain (Clear/Complicated/Complex/Chaotic)
3. COLLECT — Gather evidence at minimum invasiveness (Heisenberg protocol)
4. DIAGNOSE — Bayesian elimination tree with Information Gain test selection
5. COMPREHEND — Causal narrative: why-did / why-didn't (not just "where")
6. PROPAGATE — Scan for siblings across the codebase (species, not individual)
7. EVOLVE — Register pattern, measure MTTRC, strengthen the system

What Makes It Different

• Information Gain Engine — Mathematically selects the optimal next test (Shannon 1948)
• Cynefin Triage — Different strategies for different problem domains
• Comprehension Phase — Inspired by Ko's Whyline (8x debug speedup)
• Cross-Module Immunity — Finds bug siblings via dependency graph scanning
• Evidence Clustering — Prevents overconfidence from correlated evidence
• Antifragile Evolution — System gets stronger with each debug cycle

Requirements

• Claude Code >= 1.0.0
• Access to source code and logs of the system being debugged
• At least one observable symptom (error, crash, wrong behavior)

Academic Foundations

Grounded in 15 validated sources including Shannon (Information Theory), Ko & Myers (Whyline), Parnin & Orso (ISSTA Impact Award), Zeller (Delta Debugging), Klein (RPD), and Vesely (Fault Tree Analysis). See references/academic-foundations.md for full bibliography.

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