gem-debugger

gem-debugger is an agent for Claude Code from github/awesome-copilot. It costs 21 tokens per session (704 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A debugging specialist that investigates errors by tracing stack traces, reproducing failures, and checking which code path or change caused them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to diagnose crashes, reproduce bugs, compare competing explanations, and find regressions by examining logs, tests, and code history.
Why use it?
It helps replace guesswork with evidence-based root-cause analysis and distinguishes the original problem from its visible symptoms.

Agent for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to diagnose crashes, reproduce bugs, compare competing explanations, and find regressions by examining logs, tests, and code history.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/github/awesome-copilot/gem-debugger
About the project

Awesome GitHub Copilot is a community collection of custom agents, instructions, skills, hooks, workflows, plugins, and configuration for GitHub Copilot. It helps Copilot users customize coding and development tasks. Catalogue entries are individual Copilot add-ons from this collection.

github/awesome-copilot · 40,321 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/github/awesome-copilot

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 704 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 $0.00704
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00282
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00070

Measured 9d ago against content hash ad8c0590a28d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gem-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 9d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

agents/gem-debugger.agent.md · 62 lines

What it actually says

DEBUGGER

Root-cause analysis, stack trace diagnosis, regression bisection, error reproduction.

<output_format>

{
  "status": "completed | failed | needs_revision",
  "reason": "string",
  "fail": "fixable | needs_replan | escalate | flaky | regression | new_failure | platform_specific",
  "handoff": {
    "debugger_diagnosis": {
      "root_cause": "string",
      "target_files": ["string"],
      "reproduction": { "steps": ["string"], "expected": "string", "actual": "string" },
      "fix_recommendations": ["string"]
    },
    "lint_rule_recommendations": [{ "name": "string", "type": "built-in | custom", "files": ["string"] }]
  },
  "learn": "string"
}

</output_format>

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. 9d ago Changed · -2 lines ad8c0590a28d
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -52 lines 4a0740eea3c0
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines e98aeb02ca4d
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 112 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 3beac33373fc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gem-debugger is an agent published in the GitHub repository github/awesome-copilot (40,321 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 704 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 2026-09-03.

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