The latest articles on DEV Community by Socrates liang (@sitabanubanu). https://dev.to/sitabanubanu https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3966528%2Fe0fd187a-94f2-48b4-8cf3-2623c75a0c33.png https://dev.to/sitabanubanu en Socrates liang Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:18:05 +0000 https://dev.to/sitabanubanu/i-built-a-claude-code-skill-that-diagnoses-windows-bsods-better-than-i-can-3627 https://dev.to/sitabanubanu/i-built-a-claude-code-skill-that-diagnoses-windows-bsods-better-than-i-can-3627 <h2> The Problem </h2> <p>I had 3 BSODs in 8 days on my Windows 11 laptop. Every tool — BlueScreenView, WhoCrashed, even WinDbg — could tell me WHAT crashed, but not WHY, and certainly not HOW to fix it.</p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>A Claude Code / Codex skill that runs a complete BSOD diagnosis pipeline in 7 stages. It doesn't just read the dump — it audits the entire system, finds root causes, generates a cleanup plan, and verifies after reboot.</p> <h2> How It's Different From Existing Tools </h2> <p>Every existing BSOD tool stops at "here's the driver in the crash bucket." None of them:</p> <ul> <li>Decode pool tags to find third-party memory corruption</li> <li>Detect ghost drivers (loaded in kernel, gone from disk)</li> <li>Scan 18 system locations for remnants in parallel</li> <li>Cross-reference against a knowledge base of 62 BugCheck codes</li> <li>Generate a cleanup plan with rollback instructions</li> <li>Re-verify after reboot</li> </ul> <h2> What It Found On My Machine </h2> <p>64+ driver remnants from software I uninstalled months ago. A VPN driver corrupting kernel pool on sleep/wake. And it correctly identified Ntfs.sys as the VICTIM of a third-party pool corruption, not the culprit.</p> <h2> Try It </h2> <p><a href="https://github.com/sitabanubanu/bsod-analyzer" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/sitabanubanu/bsod-analyzer</a><br> MIT license. 26KB. Drop it in ~/.claude/skills/ and say "diagnose my BSOD."</p> automation claude microsoft showdev