smith-debug

A read-only debugging workflow that gathers evidence about errors or unexpected behavior and writes a structured report. The report can be passed to a separate fixing workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate failures across services, record symptoms and findings, identify affected systems, and save a report in the relevant .specify folder.
Why use it?
It separates finding the root cause from changing code, reducing the risk of making unverified changes while investigating a 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/attckdigital/smith/smith-debug
Any agent
npx skills add ATTCKDigital/smith --skill smith-debug
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ATTCKDigital/smith

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,130 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00043 $0.05130
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.02565
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.01026
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00513

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2d4b45dee6ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

smith-debug scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Is the upstream service reachable? (curl health endpoints)
skills/smith-debug/SKILL.md · 442 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 442 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SpecKit Debug Workflow

A diagnostic-only workflow that systematically investigates errors, failures, and unexpected behavior across Armory's services. Produces a structured debug report stored in the relevant system's .specify/ folder. Does NOT modify code — the report becomes input to /smith-bugfix if a fix is warranted.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Vault Logging

Throughout this action, log significant events to the vault session log. Read the session log path from .smith/vault/.current-session. If the file is missing or the vault is not initialized, skip all logging silently.

Append entries using this format:

### [HH:MM:SS] /smith-debug <event>

**User Request:**
> <verbatim user message that triggered this action — capture the exact error description, symptoms, or question the user asked. Include any error messages they pasted.>

**Synthesized Input:** <brief summary of what's being investigated>
**Outcome:** <what happened>
**Artifacts:** <files created/modified>
**Systems affected:** <system IDs>

Log at these points:

  1. On invocation — capture the verbatim user request AND the structured symptom description
  2. After symptom capture — structured fields extracted
  3. After triage — sub-agent findings summary
  4. After diagnosis — root cause identified or hypotheses ranked
  5. On completion — report path, user decision (bugfix/investigate/close)

Subagent Invocation Logging

Immediately before every Agent tool call in this workflow (especially the 4 triage agents in Phase 3), append a block to the session log. The Agent tool's return value does not expose subagent_type or model to the parent, so this is the only place that information can be captured.

### [HH:MM:SS] Subagent invoked: <description>

**Type:** <subagent_type or "general">
**Model:** <model override passed to Agent, or "inherited" if none>

After the Agent tool returns, the subagent-vault-writeback.sh hook automatically appends a matching "Subagent completed" block with metrics read from the sidechain transcript — do not duplicate that logging in the skill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 442 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. 2d ago First seen · 442 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 2d4b45dee6ea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

smith-debug is a skill published in the GitHub repository ATTCKDigital/smith (52 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 5,130 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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