VMware Debug
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The diagnostic brain of the VMware skill family. You bring the symptom (an error,
a log dump, a slow VM); this skill runs a systematic investigation, correlates
events from the other skills into one timeline, ranks root-cause hypotheses, and
tells you what to check next. It never touches vSphere — it connects to
nothing and never executes fixes; its only writes are to a local case ledger
under $OPS_HOME. Remediation is routed to vmware-aiops (single op) or
vmware-pilot (multi-step, gated), mirroring the vmware-harden → vmware-pilot
advisor/executor split.
See skills/vmware-debug/SKILL.md for the full
methodology, the event-envelope contract, and symptom routing.
MCP tools (14 — 7 read, 7 write)
The seven writes go to the local case ledger only; none reaches a VMware system.
Correlation — stateless, for a single look:
| Tool | What |
|---|---|
incident_timeline |
[READ] Correlate pre-fetched events → timeline + spikes + ranked hypotheses + next-check ideas |
list_symptom_categories |
[READ] List recognised symptom categories + what to check for each |
Investigation ledger — for an incident you will reason about over time:
| Tool | What |
|---|---|
case_open |
[WRITE] Define the event; returns a case id and the grade this environment can reach |
case_readiness |
[READ] What grade this environment can reach, per symptom category, before you start |
case_knowledge |
[READ] Which knowledge formats are accepted, what is mounted, and which entries apply to a case |
case_plan |
[READ] What to fetch next — skill, tool and purpose per step; recomputed from the case's current state |
case_list |
[READ] Cases, newest first |
case_get |
[READ] One case: scope, ledger sizes, grade history |
case_hypotheses |
[WRITE] Register a candidate explanation, or read the ledger of what supports and refutes each |
case_submit_evidence |
[WRITE] Record one retrieved fact, with its source, query and time basis |
case_record_gap |
[WRITE] Record what could not be retrieved, and how to close it |
case_timeline |
[WRITE] Correlate everything the case has collected into one timeline |
case_grade |
[WRITE] Recompute the conclusion grade from the ledger and record it |
case_close |
[WRITE] Record the final grade, archive, and name what was left open |
Offline / Air-Gapped Install (from source)
This project uses the modern PEP 517 build system (hatchling), so there is no
setup.py by design — that is expected, not a missing file. If you cloned the
source and hit ERROR: File "setup.py" or "setup.cfg" not found ... editable mode currently requires a setuptools-based build, your pip is older than 21.3 and
cannot do an editable (-e) install with a non-setuptools backend. Editable
mode is a developer convenience, not needed to run the tool — do one of:
# From the source tree — a normal (non-editable) install builds a wheel:
pip install . # NOT pip install -e .
# ...or upgrade pip first, and editable works too:
pip install --upgrade pip && pip install -e .
For a truly air-gapped host, build the wheels on a connected machine and copy them over — the target then needs no network:
# On a connected machine, collect this package + its dependencies as wheels:
pip wheel . -w dist # → dist/*.whl (or: uv build, for just this package)
# Copy dist/ to the air-gapped host, then install offline:
pip install --no-index --find-links dist vmware-debug
License
MIT.
1 maintainer
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