debug

debug is a command for coding agents from MadAppGang/claude-code. It costs 12 tokens per session (2,837 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured debugging workflow that adapts to the project’s technology stack. It investigates errors, traces their root causes, applies fixes, and runs validation tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for analyzing errors, finding root causes, changing the code to fix bugs, detecting the relevant stack, and validating the result.
Why use it?
It separates diagnosis from code changes so the cause of a bug is understood before a fix is made. Running tests afterward provides evidence that the change works.

Command

Part of the dev plugin — 47 skills, 12 commands, 14 agents 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/madappgang/claude-code/debug
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MadAppGang/claude-code

Or install dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 12 commands, 14 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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 2,837 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 $0.02837
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.01418
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00567
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00284

Measured yesterday against content hash 8edef1795599, 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 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.

plugins/dev/commands/debug.md · 367 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 367 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

<user_request> $ARGUMENTS </user_request>

<critical_override> THIS COMMAND OVERRIDES THE CLAUDE.md TASK ROUTING TABLE FOR AGENT SELECTION.

WHY: The CLAUDE.md routing table maps "Investigation" to code-analysis:detective, but this command needs dev:debugger for error analysis and dev:developer for applying fixes. code-analysis:detective is READ-ONLY and cannot fix bugs.

AGENT RULES FOR THIS COMMAND:

  • Error analysis and root cause investigation → dev:debugger agent (subagent_type: "dev:debugger")
  • Applying fixes → dev:developer agent (subagent_type: "dev:developer")
  • Stack detection → dev:stack-detector agent (subagent_type: "dev:stack-detector")
  • Validation → Bash (run tests directly)

DO NOT use code-analysis:detective (READ-ONLY — cannot apply fixes or write code). DO NOT use dev:researcher (researches topics, does NOT debug code). DO NOT use dev:architect (plans architecture, does NOT debug or fix code). </critical_override>

  Before starting, create todo list with all 6 phases:
  0. Initialize (understand issue)
  1. Error Analysis
  2. Root Cause Investigation
  3. Fix Implementation
  4. Validation
  5. Documentation

  Update continuously as you progress.
</todowrite_requirement>

<orchestrator_role>
  **You are an ORCHESTRATOR, not IMPLEMENTER.**

  **You MUST:**
  - Use Task tool to delegate ALL debugging work
  - Use Tasks to track investigation steps
  - Document findings systematically
  - Trace root cause before fixing

  **You MUST NOT:**
  - Write or edit code directly
  - Apply fixes yourself
  - Skip root cause analysis
</orchestrator_role>

<delegation_rules>
  - ALL error analysis -> debugger agent
  - ALL fixes -> developer agent
  - ALL validation -> run tests via Bash
</delegation_rules>

</critical_constraints>

      Detect technology stack for this project.
      Save results to: ${SESSION_PATH}/context.json
      ```
    </step>
    <step>Mark PHASE 0 as completed</step>
  </steps>
  <quality_gate>Issue understood, stack detected</quality_gate>
</phase>

<phase number="1" name="Error Analysis">
  <objective>Analyze error and identify potential causes</objective>
  <steps>
    <step>Mark PHASE 1 as in_progress</step>
    <step>
      Launch debugger agent:
      ```
      SESSION_PATH: ${SESSION_PATH}
      DETECTED_STACK: {stack}

      Analyze this error:
      {error_description}

      Steps:
      1. Parse stack trace/error message
      2. Identify error type and category
      3. List potential root causes (ranked by likelihood)
      4. Identify relevant code files
      5. Suggest investigation paths

      Save analysis to: ${SESSION_PATH}/error-analysis.md
      ```
    </step>
    <step>Review analysis (read ${SESSION_PATH}/error-analysis.md)</step>
    <step>Mark PHASE 1 as completed</step>
  </steps>
  <quality_gate>Error analyzed, potential causes identified</quality_gate>
</phase>

Read the full file on GitHub · 367 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. yesterday First seen · 367 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 8edef1795599

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debug is a command published in the GitHub repository MadAppGang/claude-code (279 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 2,837 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 2026-09-03.