debugger

debugger is an agent for Claude Code from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. It costs 42 tokens per session (5,647 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A root-cause analysis agent for data quality problems and failed analyses. It uses scientific hypothesis testing, which means forming possible explanations and checking them against evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
It investigates errors during data-pipeline execution and complex issues flagged by code reviewers. It tests possible causes and identifies explanations supported by the available evidence.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish the underlying cause of a pipeline error from symptoms or misleading clues. This is useful when a problem is too complex for a routine code review.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: hooks in frontmatter.

Good fit It investigates errors during data-pipeline execution and complex issues flagged by code reviewers. It tests possible causes and identifies explanations supported by the available evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/brycewang-stanford/auto-empirical-research-skills/debugger
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/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 · 80×15
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Per session 42 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 5,647 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 unknown 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 $0.00042 $0.05647
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.02823
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.01129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00565

Measured 2d ago against content hash f3ce3064351a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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.

skills/17-DAAF-Contribution-Community-daaf/dot-claude/agents/debugger.md · 551 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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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 · 551 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A f3ce3064351a

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debugger is an agent published in the GitHub repository brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills (3,712 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 5,647 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-07.

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