counterexample-debugger

counterexample-debugger is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE. It costs 127 tokens per session (1,759 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A debugging guide that uses failing examples to find mistakes in formal specifications or proofs. Isabelle and Coq are tools for writing and checking mathematical proofs about software or systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze Nitpick counterexamples in Isabelle, QuickChick counterexamples in Coq, failed theorems, and partial proof attempts.
Why use it?
A counterexample is a concrete case that breaks a claimed rule; examining it can reveal missing conditions, an incorrect specification, or an unsuitable proof approach.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to analyze Nitpick counterexamples in Isabelle, QuickChick counterexamples in Coq, failed theorems, and partial proof attempts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arabelatso/skills-4-se/counterexample-debugger
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 ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE --skill counterexample-debugger
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,759 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00127 $0.01759
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00879
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00352
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00176

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1669bb68ac1b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

counterexample-debugger 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 9d 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/counterexample-debugger/SKILL.md · 292 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 292 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Counterexample-Guided Proof Debugger

Analyze counterexamples from Nitpick or QuickChick to explain proof failures and suggest corrections to specifications or proofs.

Workflow

1. Receive Counterexample Information

Identify what information is provided:

  • Counterexample output: From Nitpick or QuickChick
  • Failed theorem: The statement that couldn't be proven
  • Proof attempt: Any partial proof or tactics tried
  • Context: Definitions and lemmas involved

2. Choose Target System

Determine which proof assistant is being used:

  • Isabelle/HOL with Nitpick: Finite model finder
  • Coq with QuickChick: Property-based testing
  • Both: Provide analysis for both systems

3. Analyze the Counterexample

Examine the counterexample systematically:

Verify the counterexample:

  • Manually compute the result for the given values
  • Confirm it actually violates the theorem
  • Check if it's a genuine counterexample or tool limitation

Identify the violation:

  • Which part of the theorem fails?
  • What values cause the failure?
  • Is it an edge case or fundamental issue?

Determine the root cause:

  • Missing precondition?
  • Incorrect specification?
  • Wrong quantifier order?
  • Implementation bug?
  • Off-by-one error?
  • Type constraint issue?

4. Explain the Failure

Provide clear explanation:

What went wrong:

  • Describe why the counterexample violates the theorem
  • Show the computation step-by-step
  • Highlight the specific point of failure

Why it happened:

  • Explain the underlying cause
  • Identify the conceptual error
  • Note any common patterns (empty list, boundary values, etc.)

Impact assessment:

  • Is the theorem fundamentally wrong?
  • Does it need preconditions?
  • Is the specification incomplete?

5. Suggest Corrections

Provide actionable fixes based on the root cause:

For missing preconditions:

(* Before *)
lemma "hd xs ∈ set xs"

(* After *)
lemma "xs ≠ [] ⟹ hd xs ∈ set xs"

For incorrect specifications:

(* Before: uses < instead of <= *)
x < y && is_sorted (y :: ys)

(* After *)
x <= y && is_sorted (y :: ys)

Read the full file on GitHub · 292 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 292 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 1669bb68ac1b

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counterexample-debugger is a skill published in the GitHub repository ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE (251 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 1,759 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 2026-08-30.

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