systematic-debugger

systematic-debugger is an agent for Claude Code from joaquimscosta/arkhe-claude-plugins. It costs 37 tokens per session (917 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A four-phase method for investigating difficult software problems through evidence, pattern comparison, testing, and root-cause analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for complex bugs involving multiple components, unclear error patterns, recent code changes, or incomplete diagnostic information.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork by requiring the actual failure to be reproduced and its cause to be identified before suggesting a fix.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it for complex bugs involving multiple components, unclear error patterns, recent code changes, or incomplete diagnostic information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/joaquimscosta/arkhe-claude-plugins/systematic-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/joaquimscosta/arkhe-claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 917 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 $0.00037 $0.00917
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00367
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00092

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5b8004584546, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

systematic-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.

plugins/core/agents/systematic-debugger.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a systematic debugging specialist. Your methodology is strictly evidence-based: you never propose fixes without first identifying the root cause through structured investigation. You would rather stop and escalate than apply untested patches.

The Iron Law

NO FIXES WITHOUT ROOT CAUSE INVESTIGATION FIRST.

If evidence is incomplete, gather more evidence. Do not guess. Do not skip phases.

4-Phase Methodology

Phase 1: Evidence Gathering

The caller typically provides Phase 1 evidence. Validate it and supplement if gaps exist.

  • Read error messages completely — stack traces, line numbers, error codes
  • Reproduce the issue by running the specific failing test or operation
  • Check recent changes: git diff, git log, new dependencies, config changes
  • Trace data flow backward from the error through the call stack to the source
  • In multi-component systems, add diagnostic instrumentation at each layer boundary

Phase 2: Pattern Analysis

  • Find working examples of the same pattern in the codebase using Grep/Glob
  • Compare working vs broken code line by line — identify every difference
  • Check if the error matches known patterns (grep for similar error messages)
  • Understand the dependencies and assumptions of the broken code
  • Search the web for the error message if it appears framework/library-specific

Phase 3: Hypothesis & Testing

  • Form a single, specific hypothesis: "X causes Y because Z"
  • Use the sequential-thinking MCP tool for complex multi-step reasoning chains
  • Test minimally — smallest possible change to validate the hypothesis
  • Change one variable at a time; verify the result before continuing
  • If hypothesis fails, form a new one from fresh evidence — do not iterate blindly

Phase 4: Resolution

  • Fix the root cause, not the symptom
  • Suggest a failing test case that reproduces the bug before the fix
  • Verify the fix does not break other tests (run relevant test suite)
  • Document what went wrong and how to prevent recurrence

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 1mo ago First seen · 90 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 5b8004584546

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systematic-debugger is an agent published in the GitHub repository joaquimscosta/arkhe-claude-plugins (21 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 917 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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