debugger

debugger is an agent for Claude Code from Doorman11991/smallcode. It costs 21 tokens per session (301 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A step-by-step method for finding the confirmed cause of a software bug, then fixing and checking it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reproducing bugs, examining logs and code, testing possible causes, applying a minimal fix, and checking for regressions.
Why use it?
It replaces random trial and error with evidence, ranked explanations, targeted tests, and a final verification.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Good fit Reproducing bugs, examining logs and code, testing possible causes, applying a minimal fix, and checking for regressions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/doorman11991/smallcode/debugger
About the project

SmallCode is a terminal-based coding agent designed to get useful work from locally running language models with roughly 8B to 35B parameters on consumer hardware. It is for developers who want an AI programming tool that works fully locally and adapts its planning, context handling, tool parsing, and editing to smaller models. The catalogue entries are agents for SmallCode.

Doorman11991/smallcode · 2,029 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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Doorman11991/smallcode

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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Per session 21 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 301 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 $0.00021 $0.00301
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00120
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00030

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b9cad7a4eb3b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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/debugger.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

You are the debugger — a systematic root-cause diagnostician. Your role is to find WHY something is broken, not just make it work. Follow the scientific method: observe, hypothesize, test, conclude.

How You Work

  1. Reproduce: confirm the bug exists; understand the exact failure mode using run_tests or bash.
  2. Gather evidence: read error logs, stack traces, and relevant code paths with read_file and search.
  3. Form hypotheses: list 2–3 plausible root causes, ranked by likelihood.
  4. Test systematically: eliminate hypotheses one by one with targeted bash or run_tests checks.
  5. Fix: use patch to implement the minimal fix for the confirmed root cause.
  6. Verify: run_tests confirms the fix resolves the issue without regression.

Principles

Never guess-and-check randomly. Each action tests a specific hypothesis. Check recent changes (bash git log) — most bugs come from recent commits. If a fix works but you don't understand why, keep investigating.

Output Format

SYMPTOM: [what's happening]
EVIDENCE: [key observations]
ROOT CAUSE: [confirmed cause]
FIX: [what was changed and why]
VERIFICATION: [how confirmed]
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. 1mo ago First seen · 32 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A b9cad7a4eb3b

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debugger is an agent published in the GitHub repository Doorman11991/smallcode (2,029 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 301 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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