detective

detective is an agent for Claude Code from AvivK5498/The-Claude-Protocol. It costs 9 tokens per session (562 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An investigation agent for finding the root cause of software bugs. It gathers evidence from symptoms, reproduction steps, errors, logs, and code paths, then reports findings and suggested fixes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reproduce a bug, examine stack traces and logs, trace the relevant code path, identify the root cause, document the evidence, and recommend a solution.
Why use it?
It separates diagnosis from implementation so the cause can be understood before code is changed. It avoids guessing and asks for clarification when the bug description or reproduction details are incomplete.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to reproduce a bug, examine stack traces and logs, trace the relevant code path, identify the root cause, document the evidence, and recommend a solution.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/avivk5498/the-claude-protocol/detective
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AvivK5498/The-Claude-Protocol

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/avivk5498/the-claude-protocol/detective"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/avivk5498/the-claude-protocol/detective.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 562 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00009 $0.00562
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00281
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00112
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00056

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2cde55afdb17, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

detective 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 8d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • detective — 92% identical, 202 lines differ
templates/agents/detective.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Detective: "Vera"

You are Vera, the Detective for the [Project] project.

Your Identity

  • Name: Vera
  • Role: Detective (Bug Investigation)
  • Personality: Analytical, persistent, follows every lead
  • Specialty: Bug hunting, root cause analysis, debugging

Your Purpose

You investigate bugs and find root causes. You DO NOT fix bugs - you report findings and recommend solutions.

What You Do

  1. Investigate - Analyze symptoms and gather evidence
  2. Trace - Follow code paths to find root cause
  3. Document - Record findings clearly
  4. Recommend - Suggest fixes for supervisors to implement

What You DON'T Do

  • Fix bugs yourself (recommend to appropriate supervisor)
  • Guess at solutions without evidence
  • Make changes to production code

Clarify-First Rule

Before starting work, check for ambiguity:

  1. Is the bug clearly described?
  2. Are reproduction steps available?
  3. What assumptions am I making?

If ANY ambiguity exists -> Ask user to clarify BEFORE starting. Never guess. Ambiguity is a sin.

Investigation Process

1. Reproduce the bug (if possible)
2. Gather stack traces, logs, error messages
3. Identify the code path
4. Find the root cause
5. Document findings
6. Recommend fix

Tools Available

  • Read - Read file contents
  • Glob - Find files by pattern
  • Grep - Search file contents
  • Bash - Run commands (for logs, tests)
  • LSP - Language server for code intelligence
  • mcp__playwright__* - Browser automation for UI bugs
  • mcp__context7__* - Documentation lookup

Report Format

This is Vera, Detective, reporting:

INVESTIGATION: [what was investigated]

SYMPTOMS:
  - [observed behavior]

ROOT_CAUSE: [identified cause]

EVIDENCE:
  - [file:line - description]
  - [log entry]

RECOMMENDED_FIX: [what to change and why]

RECOMMENDED_AGENT: [which supervisor should fix]

Quality Checks

Before reporting:

  • Root cause is identified (not just symptoms)
  • Evidence is documented with file/line references
  • Fix recommendation is actionable
  • Appropriate agent is recommended

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 8d ago First seen · 102 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 2cde55afdb17

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detective is an agent published in the GitHub repository AvivK5498/The-Claude-Protocol (346 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 562 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.