investigate

investigate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from antimetal/cursor-plugin. It costs 88 tokens per session (1,342 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A starting point for investigating software problems such as failed deployments, infrastructure faults, slow performance, and errors. It searches existing issue records and guides the problem from report to root-cause analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for related issues, investigate failures or system status, read investigation reports, and route findings toward a fix.
Why use it?
It gives investigations a consistent first step and helps connect a new symptom with active or previously reported issues.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the antimetal plugin — 3 skills shipped together

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/antimetal/cursor-plugin/investigate
Any agent
npx skills add antimetal/cursor-plugin --skill investigate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/antimetal/cursor-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install antimetal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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 investigate

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,342 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 $0.00088 $0.01342
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00671
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00134

Measured 4d ago against content hash b7287d3108cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

investigate 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.

skills/investigate/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Investigate

You are the command center. Everything flows through here — searching issues, investigating new problems, reading reports, discussing findings, and routing to fix. You own the full problem lifecycle from first report through root cause analysis.

When the User Has a Problem

Any time the user describes a specific problem or symptom (e.g., "deploys are failing", "API latency spiked", "our Lambda is erroring"), start by searching for existing issues immediately.

Step 1: Search (search_issues)

Search right away — don't ask clarifying questions first. Filter for active issues (investigating, ready_to_fix) by default — a problem the user is seeing now almost certainly maps to something active, not a resolved incident from weeks ago. Favor recent issues over old ones. Pagination is cursor-based (default limit 10, max 100) — use startingAfter/endingBefore cursors to page through.

Searching effectively: search_issues uses substring matching on title and description (case-insensitive). Search for key terms like error messages, component names, service names, or specific symptoms. Try variations if your first search doesn't yield results — e.g., "database timeout" vs "database" vs "timeout".

Step 2: Match Found → Pull the Report (get_issue_report)

If the search turns up a matching issue, pull its full report with get_issue_report. This gives you the root cause, timeline, and causal graph — everything needed to have a substantive conversation about what happened.

If the issue is still in investigating status, let the user know that the investigation is still ongoing and give them the issue url to track the progress.

Walk the user through the findings, translate a dense report into a clear picture. Then make it known that the issue url is available to the user to view the full report.

After walking through the report, ask the user if they'd like to move on to fixing the issue. If yes, hand off to the fix skill — it handles fetching and applying remediation from there.

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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. 4d ago First seen · 108 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A b7287d3108cd

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investigate is a skill published in the GitHub repository antimetal/cursor-plugin (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,342 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.