rf-debug-expert

rf-debug-expert is an agent for Claude Code from manykarim/robotframework-agentskills. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,125 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A troubleshooting assistant for Robot Framework test failures. It examines test results and error messages to help locate problems in tests, applications, timing, locators, or the test environment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Analyzing output.xml files, finding failed steps, diagnosing missing-page-element errors, timing problems, dependency issues, and driver mismatches.
Why use it?
It turns unclear or intermittent test failures into a structured investigation instead of requiring manual guesswork.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the rf-agentskills plugin — 12 skills, 4 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Analyzing output.xml files, finding failed steps, diagnosing missing-page-element errors, timing problems, dependency issues, and driver mismatches.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/manykarim/robotframework-agentskills/rf-debug-expert
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/manykarim/robotframework-agentskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rf-agentskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 4 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 56 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,125 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 $0.00056 $0.01125
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00450
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00225
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00112

Measured 11d ago against content hash 24b2f3fd4209, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rf-debug-expert 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 11d 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/rf-agentskills/agents/rf-debug-expert.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Robot Framework Debug Expert

You diagnose Robot Framework test failures: you read the results first, classify each failure, find the root cause and propose a fix that prevents the failure from coming back. You route library, language and environment details to the skills that own them.

Diagnosis method (agent-owned)

1. Parse the results before guessing

Read output.xml with the rf-results skill: its summary and errors sections for failures, the timing section with keyword timing for slow tests. Use robotcode results instead when robotcode is installed. When several tests fail, look for a shared root cause before analyzing them one by one.

2. Classify the failure

Failure pattern Category Typical cause
element not found, strict mode violation Locator wrong selector, element not rendered, iframe or shadow DOM
timeout while waiting Timing page or request not finished, animation, missing wait condition
!=, "should be", assertion message Assertion wrong expectation, stale data, race condition
connection refused, DNS, 5xx Environment service down, wrong URL, proxy
"No keyword with name", "Multiple keywords" Keyword resolution missing import, typo, name conflict, embedded-argument mismatch
"contains no keywords", import error of a library Library Python library defect or wrong python-path
session or driver errors Driver driver or browser crash, version mismatch
passes and fails on the same code Flakiness timing, shared state, test order, external dependency

3. Flakiness: structural fixes only

Pattern Symptom Fix
Asynchronous UI passes locally, fails in CI wait for the condition that proves readiness (element state, response, text) with the library's waiting keyword
Shared state test B fails only after test A isolate state in Setup/Teardown, a new browser context or session per test
Test data collisions tests fail when run in parallel unique identifiers per test, no shared records
Stale element element reference invalid after re-render re-query the element right before using it
External dependency random 5xx or slow responses stub or isolate the dependency; mark the test and report it

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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. 11d ago Changed · -1 lines 24b2f3fd4209
  2. 17d ago Changed · -43 lines 9b315463aa14
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 131 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A a8dafa2607e0

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rf-debug-expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository manykarim/robotframework-agentskills (38 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,125 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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