plumber-diagnose

plumber-diagnose is a skill for Claude Code from akshatnerella/plumber. It costs 16 tokens per session (139 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A one-time diagnostic that explains the root cause of a coding problem before any code is written.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for identifying what is actually broken, checking for design flaws, deciding what can be deleted, and stating the simplest proposed solution.
Why use it?
It makes the reasoning visible and helps decide whether to apply a small fix or change the underlying design.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the plumber plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for identifying what is actually broken, checking for design flaws, deciding what can be deleted, and stating the simplest proposed solution.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/akshatnerella/plumber/plumber-diagnose
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 akshatnerella/plumber --skill plumber-diagnose
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/akshatnerella/plumber

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install plumber, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 139 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 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 $0.00016 $0.00139
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00069
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00028
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00014

Measured 10d ago against content hash 600b62a60351, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plumber-diagnose 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 10d 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.

.openclaw/skills/plumber-diagnose/SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Run the plumber diagnostic explicitly before writing any code. Show your work.

Format

Root cause:        [what is actually broken, not the symptom]
Design flaw?       [yes/no — if yes, what is wrong structurally]
Patch or redesign? [decision + one-line reason]
What to delete:    [anything unnecessary]
Solution:          [the genuinely simple fix]

Do not write code until the diagnosis is shown. One-shot diagnostic, then implement.

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. 10d ago First seen · 21 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 600b62a60351

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plumber-diagnose is a skill published in the GitHub repository akshatnerella/plumber (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 139 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 2026-08-31.

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