debug

A command for investigating a software problem by examining logs, database state, and recent Git changes. Git is the system that records code history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during manual testing or implementation when something breaks and you need to find its likely cause without editing files.
Why use it?
It helps connect an observed error with what the application, its data, or recent code changes were doing.

Command

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/jeffh/claude-plugins/debug
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeffh/claude-plugins
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 1,407 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 $0.01407
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00704
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00281
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00141

Measured 2d ago against content hash 370f20efe1f0, 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.

humanlayer/commands/debug.md · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Debug

You are tasked with helping debug issues during manual testing or implementation. This command allows you to investigate problems by examining logs, database state, and git history without editing files. Think of this as a way to bootstrap a debugging session without using the primary window's context.

Initial Response

When invoked WITH a plan/ticket file:

I'll help debug issues with [file name]. Let me understand the current state.

What specific problem are you encountering?
- What were you trying to test/implement?
- What went wrong?
- Any error messages?

I'll investigate the logs, database, and git state to help figure out what's happening.

When invoked WITHOUT parameters:

I'll help debug your current issue.

Please describe what's going wrong:
- What are you working on?
- What specific problem occurred?
- When did it last work?

I can investigate logs, database state, and recent changes to help identify the issue.

Environment Information

You have access to these key locations and tools:

Logs (automatically created by make daemon and make wui):

  • MCP logs: ~/.humanlayer/logs/mcp-claude-approvals-*.log
  • Combined WUI/Daemon logs: ~/.humanlayer/logs/wui-${BRANCH_NAME}/codelayer.log
  • First line shows: [timestamp] starting [service] in [directory]

Database:

  • Location: ~/.humanlayer/daemon-{BRANCH_NAME}.db
  • SQLite database with sessions, events, approvals, etc.
  • Can query directly with sqlite3

Git State:

  • Check current branch, recent commits, uncommitted changes
  • Similar to how commit and describe_pr commands work

Service Status:

  • Check if daemon is running: ps aux | grep hld
  • Check if WUI is running: ps aux | grep wui
  • Socket exists: ~/.humanlayer/daemon.sock

Process Steps

Step 1: Understand the Problem

After the user describes the issue:

  1. Read any provided context (plan or ticket file):
    • Understand what they're implementing/testing
    • Note which phase or step they're on
    • Identify expected vs actual behavior

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 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. 2d ago First seen · 201 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 370f20efe1f0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

debug is a command published in the GitHub repository jeffh/claude-plugins (12 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 1,407 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.