problem-analyzer

A diagnostic command for tracing a software problem from the affected files to its root cause and a proposed fix.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list implicated files, explain how the failure propagates, outline a minimal safe fix, and identify tests or documentation that need updating.
Why use it?
It gives developers a structured investigation before code changes are made and highlights related tests, documentation, configuration, and open questions.

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/instructa/constructa-starter/problem-analyzer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/instructa/constructa-starter

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 185 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 $0.00000 $0.00185
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00093
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00037
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00018

Measured yesterday against content hash 44bc0e97cff8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

problem-analyzer 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.cursor/commands/problem-analyzer.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Tasks:

  1. Locate all files/modules affected by the issue. List paths and why each is implicated.
  2. Explain the root cause(s): what changed, how it propagates to the failure, and any environmental factors.
  3. Propose the minimal, safe fix. Include code-level steps, side effects, and tests to add/update.
  4. Flag any missing or outdated documentation/configs/schemas that should be updated or added (especially if code appears outdated vs. current behavior). Specify exact docs/sections to create or amend.

Output format:

  • Affected files:
    • :
  • Root cause:
  • Proposed fix:
    • <steps/patch outline>
    • Tests:
  • Documentation gaps:
    • <doc_section_what_to_update_add>
  • Open questions/assumptions:

DON'T CODE YET.

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. yesterday First seen · 21 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 44bc0e97cff8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

problem-analyzer is a command published in the GitHub repository instructa/constructa-starter (121 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 185 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 2026-08-30.