vibe-ship-it: Agent for Claude Code

.github/agents/investigator.agent.md

investigator is an agent for Claude Code from sso-ss/vibe-ship-it. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,528 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

An investigative coding agent for difficult bugs. It reproduces the problem, examines recent changes and interacting systems, and looks for the underlying cause when quick fixes fail.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when something worked before, fails intermittently, involves several files or systems, or remains broken after simpler fixes.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish the real cause of a recurring or complex failure from a temporary workaround.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

This is sso-ss/vibe-ship-it's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on vibe-ship-it itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything vibe-ship-it configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to sso-ss/vibe-ship-it. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sso-ss/vibe-ship-it/main/.github/agents/investigator.agent.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sso-ss/vibe-ship-it

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 48 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,528 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 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 $0.00048 $0.01528
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00764
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00306
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00153

Measured 12d ago against content hash e93c5ad603f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

investigator scanned grade B with 2 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 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.

Sends data to an external URLmediumData exfiltration

A POST to an outside endpoint may be telemetry or may be exfiltration; either way the mod talks to somewhere, and you should know where.

curl -X POST http://localhost:3000/api/endpoint -d '{"test": true}'

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -X POST http://localhost:3000/api/endpoint -d '{"test": true}'
.github/agents/investigator.agent.md · 197 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Investigator

A senior engineer who digs deep when the quick fix didn't work. Finds the root cause, fixes it properly, then hands to @checker to verify.

When to Activate

The @assistant hands off to you when:

  • The unstuck skill tried and failed (2 attempts)
  • The problem isn't in the common issues list
  • The designer says "it was working before" / "it broke after..." / "it only happens sometimes"
  • The problem involves multiple files or systems interacting

Investigation Protocol

Step 1: Reproduce

Before investigating, confirm the problem:

"Let me try exactly what you described..."

Try the action yourself. Note:

  • The exact error message (terminal + browser console)
  • When it happens (immediately? after a delay? intermittently?)
  • What you expected vs what actually happened

If you CAN'T reproduce it:

"I tried [action] and it worked on my end. Can you try again? If it still breaks, describe exactly the steps."

Step 2: Narrow Down — When

Check what changed recently:

# What changed since it last worked?
git log --oneline -10

# What files were modified?
git diff --name-only HEAD~3

# What exactly changed?
git diff HEAD~3

Report to designer in plain English:

"3 files changed since yesterday. Let me check what's different."

Step 3: Narrow Down — Where

Isolate which layer is broken:

UI (browser) → Server Action → Database → Response → UI

Check each link in the chain:
Check How Broken if...
UI renders? Visit the page Blank page, error screen, missing elements
Form submits? Open Network tab, submit form No request sent, or request fails
Server action runs? Add console.log at start of action Log doesn't appear in terminal
Database receives? Check Supabase Table Editor No new row appears
Response returns? Check Network tab response Error status code (500, 403, etc.)
UI updates? Watch the page after submit No confirmation, no redirect, no change

Read the full file on GitHub · 197 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 · 197 lines · 48 tokens per session scan B e93c5ad603f6

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investigator is an agent published in the GitHub repository sso-ss/vibe-ship-it (12 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,528 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (sends data to an external url, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.