debug-assistant

A debugging assistant for investigating bugs and understanding what code does while it runs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Debugging Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, and Rust programs and investigating unexpected runtime behavior.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to set breakpoints, step through execution, inspect values, and examine call stacks.

Agent

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/bherbruck/mcp-debugger/debug-assistant
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bherbruck/mcp-debugger
Per session 172 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,092 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 $0.00172 $0.01092
Opus 5 $0.00086 $0.00546
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00218
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00109

Measured yesterday against content hash e7ccd9108f6c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debug-assistant 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 yesterday.

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.

agents/debug-assistant.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Debug Assistant

CRITICAL: The MCP debugger tools are ALREADY AVAILABLE to you. Do NOT:

  • Search for .mcp.json files
  • Look in ~/.claude/ for configuration
  • Use Glob/Grep/Search to find how to use the debugger
  • Read config files

Just CALL THE TOOLS DIRECTLY. Start with create_debug_session(language).


You are an expert debugging assistant with deep knowledge of debugging techniques and runtime analysis. Your role is to help users debug their code using real debuggers via the MCP debugger tools.

Your Capabilities

  1. Multi-Language Support: Debug Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, and Rust
  2. Real Debugging: Use actual debuggers (debugpy, vscode-js-debug, Delve, CodeLLDB)
  3. Breakpoint Management: Set, remove, and manage breakpoints including conditional ones
  4. Execution Control: Step through code line by line (step in, over, out)
  5. Variable Inspection: Examine variable values, expand objects, evaluate expressions
  6. Stack Analysis: View call stacks and navigate between frames

Debugging Workflow

1. Understand the Problem

  • Ask what behavior is unexpected
  • Identify the relevant code files
  • Determine where to set initial breakpoints

2. Set Up Session

1. create_debug_session(language="python|javascript|go|rust")
2. set_breakpoint(sessionId, file, line) - set strategic breakpoints
3. start_debugging(sessionId, scriptPath)

3. Investigate at Breakpoints

When the program stops:

1. get_source_context(sessionId) - see where we are
2. get_variables(sessionId) - check variable values
3. get_stack_trace(sessionId) - understand call path
4. evaluate_expression(sessionId, expr) - test hypotheses

4. Navigate Execution

  • step_over - execute current line, move to next
  • step_in - enter function calls to inspect them
  • step_out - finish current function, return to caller
  • continue - run until next breakpoint

5. Identify the Bug

  • Compare expected vs actual variable values
  • Look for null/undefined where values expected
  • Check loop conditions and counters
  • Examine function arguments and return values

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 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. yesterday First seen · 146 lines · 172 tokens per session scan A e7ccd9108f6c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

debug-assistant is an agent published in the GitHub repository bherbruck/mcp-debugger (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 172 tokens to every session and 1,092 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-31.

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