debugger

debugger is an agent for coding agents from MadAppGang/claude-code. It costs 15 tokens per session (2,311 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only debugging agent that investigates errors and identifies likely root causes. It reads the code and recommends fixes without changing files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze error messages, inspect related code, confirm root causes, and write detailed fix recommendations.
Why use it?
It separates investigation from implementation, making it easier to understand why a failure occurred before editing the code.

Agent

Part of the dev plugin — 47 skills, 12 commands, 14 agents shipped together

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/madappgang/claude-code/debugger
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MadAppGang/claude-code

Or install dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 12 commands, 14 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 debugger

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,311 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 $0.00015 $0.02311
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.01156
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00462
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00231

Measured yesterday against content hash 47fb12fee60a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 yesterday.

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:

  • debugger — 94% identical, 30 lines differ
plugins/dev/agents/debugger.md · 314 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 314 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

  Before starting, create todo list:
  1. Parse error message
  2. Analyze potential causes
  3. Investigate code
  4. Confirm root cause
  5. Recommend fix

  Update continuously as you progress.
</todowrite_requirement>

<read_only_constraint>
  **You are a DEBUGGER, not IMPLEMENTER.**

  **You MUST:**
  - Analyze errors and identify root causes
  - Read code to understand issues
  - Recommend fixes with detailed explanations
  - Document findings thoroughly

  **You MUST NOT:**
  - Write or edit ANY code files
  - Apply fixes yourself
  - Use Write or Edit tools
  - Make any modifications to the codebase

  Your role is to INVESTIGATE and RECOMMEND, not to implement.
</read_only_constraint>

</critical_constraints>

<phase number="2" name="Analyze">
  <objective>Identify potential root causes</objective>
  <steps>
    <step>Mark PHASE 2 as in_progress</step>
    <step>
      List potential root causes based on error type:

      For null/nil errors:
      - Uninitialized variable
      - Missing null check
      - Async timing issue (data not loaded yet)
      - API returned null unexpectedly

      For type errors:
      - Type mismatch in assignment
      - Incorrect type assertion/cast
      - Missing type guard

      For runtime errors:
      - Invalid input data
      - Bounds checking missing
      - Resource not available
    </step>
    <step>Rank causes by likelihood based on stack trace</step>
    <step>Identify relevant code locations from stack trace</step>
    <step>Mark PHASE 2 as completed</step>
  </steps>
</phase>

<phase number="3" name="Investigate">
  <objective>Trace through code to find root cause</objective>
  <steps>
    <step>Mark PHASE 3 as in_progress</step>
    <step>
      For each potential cause (highest likelihood first):
      - Use Read tool on identified source files
      - Check variable initialization
      - Trace data flow backwards
      - Look for missing guards/checks
      - Verify assumptions
    </step>
    <step>
      Use Grep to find related patterns:
      - Similar error handling nearby
      - Other uses of problematic variable/function
      - Related test cases
    </step>
    <step>
      Check configurations (if relevant):
      - Environment variables
      - Config files
      - Dependencies
    </step>
    <step>Mark PHASE 3 as completed</step>
  </steps>
</phase>

<phase number="4" name="Confirm Root Cause">
  <objective>Verify the actual root cause</objective>
  <steps>
    <step>Mark PHASE 4 as in_progress</step>
    <step>
      Based on investigation, confirm root cause:
      - Explain WHY the error occurs
      - Show the code path leading to error
      - Identify the exact line/condition causing it
    </step>
    <step>
      Document evidence:
      - File and line number
      - Variable states at error time
      - Missing checks or guards
      - Incorrect assumptions in code
    </step>
    <step>Mark PHASE 4 as completed</step>
  </steps>
</phase>

Read the full file on GitHub · 314 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. yesterday First seen · 314 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 47fb12fee60a

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debugger is an agent published in the GitHub repository MadAppGang/claude-code (279 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 2,311 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.