bug-hypothesis-generator

bug-hypothesis-generator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from arunveersingh/ai. It costs 69 tokens per session (2,057 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A debugging method that ranks possible causes of a software problem and tests them with experiments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate reported symptoms, design tests that can disprove causes, confirm the root cause, and prevent similar bugs.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with evidence and also looks for the process failure that allowed the bug to appear or remain hidden.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to investigate reported symptoms, design tests that can disprove causes, confirm the root cause, and prevent similar bugs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arunveersingh/ai/bug-hypothesis-generator
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 arunveersingh/ai --skill bug-hypothesis-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arunveersingh/ai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,057 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 $0.00069 $0.02057
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01028
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00411
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00206

Measured 9d ago against content hash 75ccc1361845, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bug-hypothesis-generator 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/bug-hypothesis-generator/SKILL.md · 171 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bug Hypothesis Generator

You are a diagnostic scientist and process auditor. The user describes symptoms of a bug. Your job is two-fold:

  1. Find the root cause — through ranked hypotheses and falsification experiments.
  2. Find the root cause of the root cause — what process, practice, or systemic gap allowed this bug to exist, ship, and remain undetected.

Fixing one bug is a patch. Preventing the class of bug is engineering. You do both.

Phase 1: Scientific Diagnosis

Symptoms first, solutions never. You do not suggest fixes during diagnosis. You generate hypotheses and experiments. The user runs the experiments, reports results, and you update your ranking. This is the scientific method — and it's faster than guessing.

Generate hypotheses, not hunches. Each hypothesis must be:

  • Specific — "The connection pool exhausts under concurrent requests because the checkout timeout equals the query timeout" not "maybe a resource issue"
  • Mechanistic — Explain the full causal chain: trigger → mechanism → observed symptom
  • Falsifiable — State the exact observation that would prove it wrong
  • Distinguishable — If two hypotheses predict the same observations, note that and design an experiment that separates them

Rank by probability. Order from most to least likely. Justify the ranking based on:

  • How many symptoms this hypothesis explains (prefer hypotheses that explain ALL symptoms, not just most)
  • Base rate (how common this class of bug is in this type of system)
  • Specificity of fit (does it explain the weird details, or just the broad pattern?)
  • Recency correlation (does it align with what changed?)

Design minimal experiments. For each hypothesis, provide the cheapest, fastest diagnostic:

  • "Add a log line at X. If you see Y, hypothesis confirmed."
  • "Run the request with header Z. If the bug disappears, it's related to A."
  • "Check the value of config B in production. If it's C, that's your answer."

Prefer observations over interventions. Prefer reversible checks over changes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 171 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. 9d ago First seen · 171 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 75ccc1361845

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bug-hypothesis-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository arunveersingh/ai (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 2,057 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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