ci-crash-dump

ci-crash-dump is a skill for Claude Code from ANcpLua/ancplua-claude-plugins. It costs 113 tokens per session (3,947 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A helper for retrieving and examining crash-dump files from failed .NET tests. A crash dump is a saved record of a crashed process; Helix is the distributed test system that stores these artifacts for .NET repositories.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a CI test process crashed, when you need to download a dump from a Helix job, or when investigating why a test crashed.
Why use it?
It helps you investigate crashes that ordinary test-failure logs cannot explain. It also guides you to the relevant dump from a pull request, issue, or build.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is ../ci-analysis/scripts/Get-CIStatus.ps1 -PRNumber <PR> -Repository "dotnet/runtime" -ShowLogs.

Part of the dotnet-dnceng plugin — 10 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it when a CI test process crashed, when you need to download a dump from a Helix job, or when investigating why a test crashed.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ANcpLua/ancplua-claude-plugins
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ancplua/ancplua-claude-plugins/ci-crash-dump

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dotnet-dnceng, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,947 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 $0.00113 $0.03947
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01973
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00789
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00395

Measured 11d ago against content hash a4c4f1b19b24, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ci-crash-dump 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 11d 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.

plugins/dotnet-dnceng/skills/ci-crash-dump/SKILL.md · 280 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 280 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CI Crash Dump Analysis

Dotnet repositories run tests on a distributed test infrastructure called Helix. When a test process crashes, Helix captures a dump file and publishes it as an artifact. This skill covers finding those artifacts, downloading them, and analyzing the dump.

When to Use

  • A CI test crashed (not just failed with assertion errors)
  • User wants to debug a dump from a PR or build

When Not to Use

  • Test failed but didn't crash (normal assertion failure) — use ci-analysis
  • User already has a dump file locally
  • Build failures (no test execution occurred)

Step 1: Identify the Crashed Work Item

If pointed at a PR, use this plugin's ci-analysis skill to find failing Helix jobs. The ci-analysis skill provides Get-CIStatus.ps1:

../ci-analysis/scripts/Get-CIStatus.ps1 -PRNumber <PR> -Repository "dotnet/runtime" -ShowLogs
../ci-analysis/scripts/Get-CIStatus.ps1 -BuildId <BuildId> -ShowLogs

If pointed at an issue (not a PR), look at the issue body and comments for linked AzDO build URLs. Multiple builds may be listed — start with the most recent, as older builds may have expired from AzDO retention policies. Pass its build ID to ../ci-analysis/scripts/Get-CIStatus.ps1. There is no associated PR in this scenario — skip PR correlation in your analysis.

Stacks already in the issue/PR: The issue or PR may already contain a pasted stack trace. Do not simply repeat it — always perform your own independent analysis from the console log and/or dump. You may get better symbol resolution, find additional threads, or identify details the original poster missed. Use any existing stacks as a cross-reference, not a substitute.

Crashes are reported at the work item level. Look for work items that have dump files in their artifacts. Note that even individual test-name failures can be crashes (not just assertion failures) — for example, in dotnet/runtime test crashes are often attributed to individual tests. A single work item may also contain multiple crashes (e.g., tests using RemoteExecutor or process isolation). A PR may have many failures — look specifically for work items with dump files. If multiple work items crashed, list them and ask the user which one to investigate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 280 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. 11d ago First seen · 280 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A a4c4f1b19b24

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ci-crash-dump is a skill published in the GitHub repository ANcpLua/ancplua-claude-plugins (6 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 3,947 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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