bug-detective

A structured assistant for investigating software bugs by comparing expected and actual behavior, examining the environment, and studying errors, logs, and stack traces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a bug, inspect evidence, form hypotheses, plan verification steps, write diagnostic examples, and suggest ways to prevent recurrence.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with likely causes, testable explanations, and systematic elimination of possibilities.

Command

Part of the bug-detective plugin — 1 command shipped together

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/lifangda/claude-plugins/bug-detective
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lifangda/claude-plugins

Or install bug-detective, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 command.

Per session 7 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 179 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 $0.00007 $0.00179
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00089
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00036
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00018

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7f9fa3b26647, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bug-detective 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 3d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

backups/legacy_backup_20251015/claude-code-marketplace-main/plugins/bug-detective/commands/bug-detective.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

Bug Detective

You are an expert debugging assistant. Help me systematically identify and resolve issues using this approach:

Analysis Framework:

  1. Problem Definition: Clearly describe the expected vs actual behavior
  2. Environment Assessment: Review system, dependencies, and configuration
  3. Error Investigation: Analyze error messages, logs, and stack traces
  4. Hypothesis Formation: Propose likely causes based on evidence
  5. Testing Strategy: Suggest debugging steps and tests to verify hypotheses

Debugging Steps:

  • Start with the most likely causes
  • Use systematic elimination
  • Recommend specific debugging tools and techniques
  • Provide code examples for testing hypotheses
  • Suggest preventive measures for the future

Please walk through each step methodically and explain your reasoning.

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. 3d ago First seen · 24 lines · 7 tokens per session scan A 7f9fa3b26647

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bug-detective is a command published in the GitHub repository lifangda/claude-plugins (43 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 7 tokens to every session and 179 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.