fable-debug

fable-debug is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from arishofmann/opus-to-fable. It costs 105 tokens per session (592 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for investigating software bugs by reproducing the problem, tracing the data involved, and testing multiple possible causes. It requires observations before explanations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for crashes, failing tests, stack traces, unexpected behavior, and requests to debug or fix a bug.
Why use it?
It helps avoid changing code based on an untested guess about the cause. Testing one variable at a time makes it easier to identify what actually fixes the problem.

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/arishofmann/opus-to-fable/fable-debug
Any agent
npx skills add arishofmann/opus-to-fable --skill fable-debug
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arishofmann/opus-to-fable

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 592 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 $0.00105 $0.00592
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00296
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00059

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2d8ea88e3fd4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fable-debug 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.

dotclaude/skills/fable-debug/SKILL.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

Fable Debug — wissenschaftliches Debugging

Opus' häufigster Fehler: eine vermeintliche Ursache instinktiv diagnostizieren und sofort losfixen, ohne zu prüfen, ob der Fehler überhaupt real ist oder woher die Daten kommen. Dieser Skill verbietet das und erzwingt ein methodisches Vorgehen.

Vorgehen (in Reihenfolge)

1. Reproduzieren

  • Erst den Fehler reproduzierbar machen. Lies die tatsächliche Fehlermeldung / den Stacktrace — nicht die vermutete. Notiere die exakten Schritte/Eingaben, die ihn auslösen.
  • Lässt er sich nicht reproduzieren: erst klären, ob er real ist, bevor du irgendetwas "fixt".

2. Erst beobachten, dann erklären

  • Verfolge, woher die betroffenen Daten/Werte kommen (Quelle → Transformationen → Stelle des Fehlers).
  • Sammle Fakten (Logs, Werte, Zustände), bevor du eine Erklärung formulierst.

3. Hypothesen bilden — mehrere

  • Formuliere ≥2 konkrete, falsifizierbare Hypothesen für die Ursache.
  • Für jede: Welche Beobachtung würde sie bestätigen oder widerlegen? Spring nicht auf die erste.

4. Gezielt testen — eine Variable pro Schritt

  • Ändere/prüfe jeweils nur eine Sache, damit die Ursache eindeutig zuordenbar bleibt.
  • Nutze gezielte Logs/Asserts/minimale Repro statt breiter, hoffnungsbasierter Änderungen.

5. Root Cause vor Fix

  • Behebe die Ursache, nicht das Symptom. Erkläre kurz, warum der Fehler entsteht.
  • Prüfe, ob dieselbe Ursache an anderen Stellen ebenfalls auftritt.

6. Nach dem Fix verifizieren

  • Repro erneut ausführen → wirklich behoben? Keine Regression im Happy Path und an den Error-Paths?
  • Wenn möglich, einen Test ergänzen, der genau diesen Bug künftig fängt.

Antimuster (vermeiden)

  • Diagnostizieren, ohne den Fehler reproduziert zu haben.
  • Annehmen, ein gemeldeter Fehler sei echt, ohne ihn zu verifizieren.
  • Mehrere Dinge gleichzeitig ändern und hoffen, dass eines wirkt.
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 · 47 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 2d8ea88e3fd4

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fable-debug is a skill published in the GitHub repository arishofmann/opus-to-fable (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 592 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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