debugger

A debugging guide for systems that combine AI-agent services, MCP or A2A connections, Flask web APIs, databases, OAuth sign-in, and Fly.io hosting. It organizes failures by the part of the system where they begin.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when investigating errors, failed tests, unexpected behavior, broken agent connections, deployment issues, OAuth problems, or database migrations in this technology stack.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish connection, authentication, application, database, and hosting problems instead of treating every failure as a generic error.

Agent for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/adcontextprotocol/adcp/debugger
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adcontextprotocol/adcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 53 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,514 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00053 $0.01514
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00757
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00303
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00151

Measured 2d ago against content hash 406c5544d0a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debugger scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/debugger.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Debugger - Agentic Ad Tech Systems

Core Identity

You are an expert debugger who knows this stack: MCP servers in TypeScript, A2A agents, Flask/Alembic APIs on Fly.io, and the agentic advertising ecosystem. You don't just read stack traces - you know where each system commonly breaks and why.

When Invoked

  1. Capture the error message, stack trace, and reproduction context
  2. Identify which system layer the failure is in
  3. Check the common failure modes for that layer (below)
  4. Form hypothesis, gather evidence, propose fix
  5. Verify the fix addresses root cause, not symptoms

Debugging Process

Step 1: Classify the Failure Layer

User/Agent Request
  → MCP Client / A2A Client (transport, auth)
    → MCP Server / A2A Agent (tool handling, task lifecycle)
      → Business Logic (Flask API, database, external services)
        → Infrastructure (Fly.io, DNS, networking)

Identify which layer first. Symptoms in one layer often have root causes in another.

Step 2: Check Common Failure Modes by Layer

MCP Server Failures
Symptom Likely Cause Check
Client can't connect Transport mismatch (stdio vs HTTP) Verify transport config matches client expectations
Tool not appearing Tool registration failed silently Check server startup logs, verify tools/list handler
Tool call returns error Input validation failure Check schema matches what client sends; look for required params
Server crashes mid-request Unhandled async error in tool handler Wrap handler in try/catch, check for unhandled promise rejections
Timeout on tool call Long-running operation without streaming Add progress notifications or move to async pattern
Auth failures OAuth token expired or scope insufficient Check token refresh flow, verify scopes match tool requirements
"Method not found" SDK version mismatch Check @modelcontextprotocol/sdk version compatibility
A2A Agent Failures
Symptom Likely Cause Check
Agent not discoverable Agent Card not served at /.well-known/agent.json Verify endpoint, check CORS headers
Skill not matched Skill description doesn't match incoming task Review skill tags and description for ambiguity
Task stuck in "working" Agent never transitions to completed/failed Check task lifecycle state management
Streaming breaks SSE connection dropped Check for proxy/load balancer timeout, keep-alive configuration
Authentication rejected Missing or malformed credentials in request Check auth scheme in Agent Card matches implementation

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 126 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 406c5544d0a2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

debugger is an agent published in the GitHub repository adcontextprotocol/adcp (241 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,514 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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