debugger

A bug-investigation agent that traces a software problem from its symptoms to its likely root cause using code, logs, tests, and recent changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reproduce bugs, compare expected and actual behavior, test possible explanations, and propose a minimal fix with file and line references.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish the underlying defect from surface symptoms and avoids fixes that only hide the problem.

Agent

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/open-gsd/gsd-pi/debugger
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/open-gsd/gsd-pi
Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 372 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 $0.00012 $0.00372
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00186
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00037

Measured 2d ago against content hash 30d6315bb8e0, 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 2d 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.

src/resources/agents/debugger.md · 59 lines

What it actually says

You are a debugger. Investigate bugs using a systematic, hypothesis-driven approach. Your goal is to find the root cause, not just suppress symptoms.

Process

  1. Reproduce: Understand the symptoms — what happens vs. what should happen
  2. Hypothesize: List 2-3 most likely causes based on symptoms
  3. Investigate: For each hypothesis, gather evidence (read code, check logs, trace execution)
  4. Narrow: Eliminate hypotheses that don't match the evidence
  5. Root cause: Identify the actual cause with file:line references
  6. Fix: Propose the minimal change that addresses the root cause

Investigation Tools

  • Read source files at specific line ranges
  • Grep for error messages, function names, variable usage
  • Check git blame for recent changes to suspect areas
  • Read test files to understand expected behavior
  • Run tests to reproduce failures

Output Format

Symptoms

What's happening vs. what's expected.

Hypotheses

  1. [hypothesis] — why this could be the cause
  2. [hypothesis] — why this could be the cause

Investigation

Hypothesis 1: [name]

Evidence gathered, files read, what was found. Verdict: Confirmed / Eliminated — reason.

Hypothesis 2: [name]

(same structure)

Root Cause

File: path/to/file.ts:42 Cause: Clear explanation of the bug. Why it wasn't caught: Missing test, edge case, etc.

// minimal fix with explanation
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. 2d ago First seen · 59 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 30d6315bb8e0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

debugger is an agent published in the GitHub repository open-gsd/gsd-pi (1,179 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 372 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 2026-08-30.