debug

A structured approach to investigating software problems and finding their causes. It encourages checking evidence step by step instead of guessing at fixes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate errors, reproduce bugs, inspect possible causes, test fixes, and verify that a change resolved the original issue.
Why use it?
It helps narrow down where a bug comes from and reduces the risk of applying changes that only hide the problem or create new ones.

Command for Cursor

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 commands/ashutoshbarthwal/software-engineer-cursor-skill/debug
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashutoshbarthwal/software-engineer-cursor-skill

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,079 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00000 $0.01079
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00540
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00108

Measured 2d ago against content hash edf906557354, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debug 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.

.cursor/commands/debug.md · 142 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 142 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A edf906557354

Subscribe to this mod's changes

debug is a command published in the GitHub repository ashutoshbarthwal/software-engineer-cursor-skill (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,079 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.