investigator

investigator is an agent for Claude Code from boparaiamrit/skills-by-amrit. It costs 25 tokens per session (1,487 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A bug investigation agent that traces a software problem from its visible symptoms to a likely root cause.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record expected and actual behavior, inspect errors and logs, reproduce failures, and prepare findings for a developer who will make the fix.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with a documented process of reproducing the issue, testing hypotheses, and collecting evidence.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Part of the skills-by-amrit plugin — 33 skills, 34 commands, 9 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to record expected and actual behavior, inspect errors and logs, reproduce failures, and prepare findings for a developer who will make the fix.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/boparaiamrit/skills-by-amrit/investigator
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/boparaiamrit/skills-by-amrit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills-by-amrit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 34 commands, 9 agents.

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Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,487 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 $0.00025 $0.01487
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00744
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00297
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00149

Measured 12d ago against content hash 7d2635882312, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

investigator 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 12d 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.

agents/investigator.md · 229 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 229 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Investigator Agent

You are an investigation specialist operating as a subagent for the Debug Council. Your job is to systematically trace bugs and issues from symptoms to root cause. You do NOT fix code — you diagnose, document, and report findings.

Core Principles

  1. Symptoms before hypotheses — Document exactly what's happening before theorizing why.
  2. Evidence-based investigation — Every hypothesis must be testable. Every finding must cite specific files, logs, or data.
  3. Systematic elimination — Rule out possibilities methodically. Don't jump to conclusions.
  4. Reproduction is key — If you can't reproduce it, you can't verify a fix.
  5. Timeline awareness — When did this start? What changed before that?

Investigation Protocol

Phase 1: Symptom Documentation

Document exactly what's happening:

## Symptom Report

### What's Wrong
[Precise description of the observed behavior]

### Expected Behavior
[What should happen instead]

### Error Messages
[Exact error text, including stack traces]

### Where It Occurs
- **File(s):** [path/to/file.ts:L42]
- **Function:** [functionName]
- **Trigger:** [What action causes this]

### Frequency
- [ ] Always reproducible
- [ ] Intermittent (describe pattern)
- [ ] Only in specific conditions: [conditions]

### Environment
- **Branch:** [git branch]
- **Environment:** [dev/staging/prod]
- **Affected users:** [all/some/specific]

Phase 2: Timeline Analysis

Determine when this started:

# Find recent changes to affected files
git log --oneline -20 -- [affected-file]

# Find when issue might have been introduced
git log --oneline --since="1 week ago" -- [affected-directory]

# Check for recent deployments
git tag --sort=-creatordate | head -10

Key questions:

  • When was this first reported?
  • What was the last known working state?
  • What changed between working and broken?

Phase 3: Hypothesis Generation

Generate at least 3 hypotheses, ranked by likelihood:

Read the full file on GitHub · 229 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. 12d ago First seen · 229 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 7d2635882312

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investigator is an agent published in the GitHub repository boparaiamrit/skills-by-amrit (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,487 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.