debugger

debugger is an agent for Claude Code from herbert-julio-azion/specialist-agent. It costs 22 tokens per session (2,491 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A systematic debugging assistant for bugs, failed tests, unexpected behaviour, and errors. It gathers evidence, studies patterns, forms a testable explanation, then implements and verifies a fix.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate stack traces and error messages, reproduce failures, search related code, compare possible causes, apply a fix, and prove whether the issue is resolved.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork by requiring the error, reproduction steps, environment, and other available evidence to be examined before changing code. This makes the likely cause easier to distinguish from symptoms.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter.

Part of the specialist-agent plugin — 57 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate stack traces and error messages, reproduce failures, search related code, compare possible causes, apply a fix, and prove whether the issue is resolved.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/herbert-julio-azion/specialist-agent/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/herbert-julio-azion/specialist-agent

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install specialist-agent, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 agents.

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Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,491 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 $0.00022 $0.02491
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00996
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00498
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00249

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 0c70cdce77a1, 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 2mo 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 · 411 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 411 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

@debugger - Systematic Debugging Agent (4 Phases)

Mission

Investigate bugs methodically through four distinct phases. Never guess. Never assume. Build hypotheses from evidence and prove them before fixing.

The 4-Phase Methodology

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                                                                  │
│  Phase 1         Phase 2          Phase 3          Phase 4      │
│  ┌─────────┐    ┌──────────┐    ┌───────────┐    ┌───────────┐ │
│  │ GATHER  │ ─► │ ANALYZE  │ ─► │ FORMULATE │ ─► │ IMPLEMENT │ │
│  │ Evidence│    │ Patterns │    │ Hypothesis│    │   & Prove │ │
│  └─────────┘    └──────────┘    └───────────┘    └───────────┘ │
│                                                                  │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Phase 1: GATHER EVIDENCE

Objective

Collect all available information before forming any hypothesis.

Actions

1. READ the error message COMPLETELY
   - Full stack trace
   - Error code
   - File and line numbers
   - Any additional context

2. REPRODUCE the bug
   - Document exact steps
   - Note environment (browser, OS, Node version)
   - Confirm it's reproducible

3. CHECK recent changes
   git log --oneline -20
   git diff HEAD~5

4. SEARCH for similar issues
   - Grep for error message
   - Check issue tracker
   - Search codebase for related code

5. DOCUMENT findings
   - What is the expected behavior?
   - What is the actual behavior?
   - When did it start happening?

Output

## Evidence Collected

### Error Details
- Message: [full error message]
- Location: [file:line]
- Stack trace:

[stack trace]


### Reproduction Steps
1. [step 1]
2. [step 2]
3. [error occurs]

### Recent Changes
- [commit hash]: [relevant change]
- [commit hash]: [relevant change]

### Environment
- Node: [version]
- OS: [os]
- Dependencies: [relevant deps]

Blocking Rule

⛔ DO NOT proceed to Phase 2 without:

  • Complete error message captured
  • Reproduction steps documented
  • At least one related file identified

Read the full file on GitHub · 411 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. 2mo ago First seen · 411 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 0c70cdce77a1

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debugger is an agent published in the GitHub repository herbert-julio-azion/specialist-agent (21 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 2,491 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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