systematic-debugging

systematic-debugging is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aaronnat23/disp8ch. It costs 0 tokens per session (159 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A step-by-step method for finding the root cause of a software failure using evidence and one hypothesis at a time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define the failure, inspect logs and recent changes, test possible causes, apply a focused fix, and check for regressions.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork when a bug is reproducible but its cause is unclear, especially after an earlier fix did not work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to define the failure, inspect logs and recent changes, test possible causes, apply a focused fix, and check for regressions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aaronnat23/disp8ch/systematic-debugging
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.

Any agent
npx skills add aaronnat23/disp8ch --skill systematic-debugging
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aaronnat23/disp8ch

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 159 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00159
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00079
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00032
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00016

Measured 9d ago against content hash 971aea13d6ff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

systematic-debugging 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 9d 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.

optional-skills/systematic-debugging/SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Systematic Debugging

Debug failures methodically instead of jumping between guesses.

Use when

  • A bug is reproducible but the root cause is unclear.
  • A fix was attempted already and did not hold.

Workflow

  1. State the expected behavior, actual behavior, and the smallest known failing path.
  2. Check logs, recent changes, and nearby state before editing code.
  3. Form one concrete hypothesis at a time and test it with direct evidence.
  4. Narrow the fault to a file, branch, config edge, or integration boundary.
  5. Fix the specific cause, then rerun the failing path and one nearby non-regression path.

Deliverable

  • Root cause.
  • Evidence that confirmed it.
  • Exact fix.
  • Verification steps and residual risk.
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. 9d ago First seen · 21 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 971aea13d6ff

Subscribe to this mod's changes

systematic-debugging is a skill published in the GitHub repository aaronnat23/disp8ch (100 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 159 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 2026-09-03.

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