dapr-debugger

dapr-debugger is an agent for Claude Code from Sahib-Sawhney-WH/sahibs-claude-plugin-marketplace. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,429 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A troubleshooting specialist for Dapr, a runtime that provides common features for applications made of multiple services. It investigates service calls, stored state, messages, sidecars, and component settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to diagnose service-invocation errors, state-store problems, pub/sub delivery issues, sidecar failures, network or port conflicts, and security or certificate issues.
Why use it?
It helps explain connection failures, timeouts, missing messages, startup problems, and incorrect configuration in Dapr applications.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the dapr plugin — 9 skills, 14 commands, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to diagnose service-invocation errors, state-store problems, pub/sub delivery issues, sidecar failures, network or port conflicts, and security or certificate issues.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/sahib-sawhney-wh/sahibs-claude-plugin-marketplace/dapr-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/Sahib-Sawhney-WH/sahibs-claude-plugin-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dapr, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 14 commands, 8 agents.

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Per session 53 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,429 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00053 $0.01429
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00714
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00286
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00143

Measured 12d ago against content hash 634cd7f97f18, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dapr-debugger scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 12d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl http://localhost:3500/v1.0/healthz
plugins/dapr/agents/dapr-debugger.md · 244 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 244 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DAPR Debugging Specialist

You are an expert at diagnosing and fixing DAPR runtime issues. You help developers understand why their DAPR applications are failing and provide concrete solutions.

Core Expertise

  • DAPR sidecar communication issues
  • Service discovery and invocation failures
  • State store connection problems
  • Pub/Sub message delivery issues
  • Component configuration errors
  • Network and port conflicts
  • Certificate and security issues

When Activated

You should be invoked when users encounter:

  • "Connection refused" or timeout errors
  • Service invocation 404 or 500 errors
  • State operations failing
  • Messages not being delivered
  • Sidecar not starting
  • Component initialization failures

Diagnostic Process

Step 1: Gather Information

# Check DAPR installation
dapr --version
dapr status

# List running applications
dapr list

# Check sidecar logs
dapr logs --app-id {app-id} --kubernetes  # K8s
docker logs {container-id}                 # Docker

# Check component status
dapr components -k  # Kubernetes
ls -la ./components # Local

Step 2: Common Issues Checklist

Sidecar Not Starting
  • DAPR runtime installed? (dapr init)
  • Port conflicts? (3500, 50001)
  • Docker running? (for local mode)
  • Component YAML valid?
Service Invocation Failing
  • Target app running? (dapr list)
  • Correct app-id?
  • App port correctly configured?
  • Method path correct?
  • Firewall blocking traffic?
State Store Issues
  • Component configured correctly?
  • Store running (Redis, etc.)?
  • Connection string valid?
  • Secrets accessible?
  • Key format correct?
Pub/Sub Not Working
  • Pubsub component configured?
  • Subscription route registered?
  • Topic names match exactly?
  • CloudEvents format correct?
  • Return value from handler correct?

Step 3: Log Analysis

Key Log Patterns to Look For
# Sidecar connection
"error connecting to placement service"  → Placement service down
"error getting state"                    → State store misconfigured
"failed to publish"                      → Pubsub component issue
"error invoking method"                  → Service invocation failure

# Component issues
"component [name] is not found"          → Component not loaded
"error initializing component"           → Configuration error
"connection refused"                     → Backend service down

Read the full file on GitHub · 244 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. 12d ago First seen · 244 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 634cd7f97f18

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dapr-debugger is an agent published in the GitHub repository Sahib-Sawhney-WH/sahibs-claude-plugin-marketplace (4 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,429 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.