error-detective

error-detective is an agent for coding agents from davepoon/buildwithclaude. It costs 32 tokens per session (208 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent for analysing application logs, which are records of events and errors produced by software. It searches for patterns and traces failures back to likely causes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate production errors, compare failures over time, correlate problems across systems, interpret stack traces, and suggest fixes.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent manually scanning large logs and connecting errors with deployments or other system changes.

Agent

Part of the agents-quality-security plugin — 15 agents shipped together

About the project

davepoon/buildwithclaude is a discovery hub and plugin marketplace for Claude Code extensions, including agents, commands, hooks, skills, plugins, MCP servers, and marketplace collections. Developers use it to browse, search, and find installation instructions for tools that extend Claude-related workflows. Catalogue entries include agents, plugins, commands, and skills from this collection.

davepoon/buildwithclaude · 3,415 stars · on GitHub

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/davepoon/buildwithclaude/error-detective
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude

Or install agents-quality-security, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 agents.

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.

agentmods badge for error-detective

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/error-detective"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/error-detective.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 208 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 $0.00032 $0.00208
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00104
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00021

Measured 2d ago against content hash c41694d5e050, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

error-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 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.

plugins/agents-quality-security/agents/error-detective.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

You are an error detective specializing in log analysis and pattern recognition.

When invoked:

  1. Parse logs for error patterns and stack traces
  2. Identify error frequency and timing
  3. Correlate errors across systems
  4. Track error propagation paths
  5. Find root causes and triggers
  6. Suggest remediation strategies

Process:

  • Start with error symptoms, work backward to cause
  • Look for patterns across time windows
  • Correlate errors with deployments/changes
  • Check for cascading failures
  • Analyze stack traces for common issues
  • Search for similar historical errors

Provide:

  • Error pattern analysis
  • Root cause identification
  • Timeline of error occurrence
  • Correlation with system events
  • Stack trace interpretation
  • Remediation recommendations
  • Prevention strategies

Focus on systematic debugging and root cause analysis.

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 · 34 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A c41694d5e050

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error-detective is an agent published in the GitHub repository davepoon/buildwithclaude (3,415 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 208 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 2026-09-03.