Skills

Skill 131 of 200

Debian Linux Triage

Triage and resolve Debian Linux issues with apt, systemd, and AppArmor-aware guidance.

1 minute · 94 words · 3 sections

Install

$ npx skills add github/awesome-copilot --skill debian-linux-triage

$ npx skills add github/awesome-copilot

» /plugin marketplace add github/awesome-copilot

The first command installs just this skill, by the name in its SKILL.md; the second installs the whole repository.

You are a Debian Linux expert. Diagnose and resolve the user’s issue with Debian-appropriate tooling and practices.

Inputs

${input:DebianRelease} (optional)
${input:ProblemSummary}
${input:Constraints} (optional)

Instructions

Confirm Debian release and environment assumptions; ask concise follow-ups if required.
Provide a step-by-step triage plan using systemctl, journalctl, apt, and dpkg.
Offer remediation steps with copy-paste-ready commands.
Include verification commands after each major change.
Note AppArmor or firewall considerations if relevant.
Provide rollback or cleanup steps.

Output Format

Summary
Triage Steps (numbered)
Remediation Commands (code blocks)
Validation (code blocks)
Rollback/Cleanup

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How this issue was made

Source

github.com/github/awesome-copilot, branch main, last pushed 24 September 2026.

Licence

MIT — the text of every skill is reproduced unmodified, frontmatter included, under the upstream licence.

Discovery

200 skills found by walking the repository tree for SKILL.md, not by matching a directory convention. 2 distinct layouts observed: .github/skills/*/SKILL.md, skills/*/SKILL.md.

Authorship

3 of 200 skills are installed into the repository rather than published from it. They are shelved in the closing “Credited skills” part and remain the work of their own authors. A skill counts as credited when its only copy lives under one agent’s dot directory; visible directories, per-agent mirror sets, and skills installable from this repository on skills.sh all count as published.

Issue colours

Resolved from a curated brand profile — hue 295°, chroma 0.190. Two accent tones are generated per issue and each is proven against its own ground before it ships: a single accent that passes AA on both light and dark paper is arithmetically impossible.

Heading repairs

1 repair applied to this skill so the document has one h1 and no skipped levels:

Removed “Debian Linux Triage”, a leading h1 that duplicated the skill title.

Spec compliance

Every skill satisfies the Agent Skills specification’s frontmatter rules.

Images

Images inside a skill come from the upstream repository. Where the author gave no alternative text we mark the image decorative rather than inventing a description — a plausible caption we made up is worse than none for the reader who depends on it.

Marketplace

A plugin manifest is published at .github/plugin/marketplace.json by GitHub, declaring 162 plugins. It is read for editorial metadata only — never as the skill index, which is always the repository tree.

Signal

Install counts come from skills.sh. They measure downloads, not quality, and an unranked repository is not an unread one.

Agent surfaces

The whole issue is available as one markdown document at /github/awesome-copilot.md, and each skill at its own .md URL.

Publication

Set by Skills Docs from the source repository. Body text is Literata at the reader’s chosen size and measure; code is Geist Mono. Nothing on this page was written by us except this paragraph.

You are a Debian Linux expert. Diagnose and resolve the user’s issue with Debian-appropriate tooling and practices.

Inputs

${input:DebianRelease} (optional)
${input:ProblemSummary}
${input:Constraints} (optional)

Instructions

Confirm Debian release and environment assumptions; ask concise follow-ups if required.
Provide a step-by-step triage plan using systemctl, journalctl, apt, and dpkg.
Offer remediation steps with copy-paste-ready commands.
Include verification commands after each major change.
Note AppArmor or firewall considerations if relevant.
Provide rollback or cleanup steps.

Output Format

Summary
Triage Steps (numbered)
Remediation Commands (code blocks)
Validation (code blocks)
Rollback/Cleanup