debug-with-plan

debug-with-plan is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Aibier/claude-em-toolkit. It costs 41 tokens per session (417 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A debugging workflow that investigates bugs, failed tests, or unexpected behavior before suggesting a code change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reproduce a problem, inspect relevant code and history, propose a fix, compare alternatives, and define a regression test.
Why use it?
It separates finding the root cause from fixing it, reducing the risk of changing code without understanding the failure.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/aibier/claude-em-toolkit/debug-with-plan
Any agent
npx skills add Aibier/claude-em-toolkit --skill debug-with-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Aibier/claude-em-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 417 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 $0.00041 $0.00417
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00209
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00042

Measured 4d ago against content hash d2a01a6ec943, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debug-with-plan 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 4d 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.

.claude/skills/debug-with-plan/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

Debugging in Plan Mode

Investigation and fix-proposal are kept separate from execution. Root-cause first, propose second, implement only after explicit approval.

Steps

  1. Reproduce first. Get the exact failing command/input/conditions before theorizing. If you can't reproduce it, say so — don't guess at a fix for something you haven't observed.

  2. Stay in Plan Mode for the investigation. Read code, run read-only commands (logs, git log/git blame on the suspect area, test runs), form a hypothesis — but make no edits yet.

  3. Find the root cause, not the symptom. Ask "why" until you hit something that, if changed, would have prevented the bug from ever being possible — not just the line where it surfaced.

  4. Propose, don't just fix. Lay out:

    ## Root cause
    <what's actually wrong, and why it produces the observed symptom>
    
    ## Proposed fix
    <the change, and why this is the right altitude — fixing the cause,
    not papering over the symptom>
    
    ## Alternatives considered
    <if there were other viable approaches, name them and why you didn't pick them>
    
    ## Regression test
    <what test would have caught this, and that you'll add it>
    
  5. Exit Plan Mode and implement only after the user approves the proposal.

Notes

  • Resist the urge to start editing the moment you spot something suspicious — confirm it's the cause, not a plausible one.
  • A fix without a regression test isn't done — see [[impact-review]] for reviewing the blast radius of the change once it's written.
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. 4d ago First seen · 48 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A d2a01a6ec943

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debug-with-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository Aibier/claude-em-toolkit (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 417 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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