Systematic Debugging

Systematic Debugging is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from agentic-in/elephant-agent. It costs 26 tokens per session (161 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A debugging workflow that reproduces a bug, narrows down its cause, tests a hypothesis, and then validates the fix.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps investigate software bugs, isolate root causes, and confirm that fixes work.
Why use it?
It prevents developers from applying guesses before understanding why the failure occurs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit It helps investigate software bugs, isolate root causes, and confirm that fixes work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agentic-in/elephant-agent/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 agentic-in/elephant-agent --skill systematic-debugging
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentic-in/elephant-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for Systematic Debugging

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for Systematic Debugging

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 161 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.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00026 $0.00161
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00081
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00032
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00016

Measured 6d ago against content hash 7ca0b267d70d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 6d 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.

packages/skills/builtin_packages/software-development/systematic-debugging/SKILL.md · 25 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 6d ago First seen · 25 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 7ca0b267d70d

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Systematic Debugging is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentic-in/elephant-agent (582 stars, last pushed 14d ago), with no licence file. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 161 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.

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