memory-leak-debugging

A debugging guide for finding and fixing memory leaks in JavaScript and Node.js applications. A memory leak is a bug that makes a program keep using memory it no longer needs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate heap snapshots with memlab, repeat browser interactions to expose leaks, and examine issues such as detached page elements, lingering event listeners, closures, global variables, and growing caches.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to investigate high memory use and out-of-memory errors without trying to read very large heap snapshot files directly. It helps separate browser problems from server-side Node.js problems.

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/az9713/chrome-devtools-mcp/memory-leak-debugging
Any agent
npx skills add az9713/chrome-devtools-mcp --skill memory-leak-debugging
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/az9713/chrome-devtools-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 631 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00050 $0.00631
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00316
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00063

Measured yesterday against content hash 20b53315a952, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memory-leak-debugging 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (references/compare_snapshots.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to memory-leak-debugging — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/memory-leak-debugging/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Memory Leak Debugging

This skill provides expert guidance and workflows for finding, diagnosing, and fixing memory leaks in JavaScript and Node.js applications.

Core Principles

  • Prefer memlab: Do NOT attempt to read raw .heapsnapshot files directly, as they are extremely large and will consume too many tokens. Always recommend and use memlab to process snapshots and identify leak traces.
  • Isolate the Leak: Determine if the leak is in the browser (client-side) or Node.js (server-side).
  • Common Culprits: Look for detached DOM nodes, unhandled closures, global variables, event listeners not being removed, and caches growing unbounded. Note: Detached DOM nodes are sometimes intentional caches; always ask the user before nulling them.

Workflows

1. Capturing Snapshots

When investigating a frontend web application memory leak, utilize the chrome-devtools-mcp tools to interact with the application and take snapshots.

  • Use tools like click, navigate_page, fill, etc., to manipulate the page into the desired state.
  • Revert the page back to the original state after interactions to see if memory is released.
  • Repeat the same user interactions 10 times to amplify the leak.
  • Use take_memory_snapshot to save .heapsnapshot files to disk at baseline, target (after actions), and final (after reverting actions) states.

2. Using Memlab to Find Leaks (Recommended)

Once you have generated .heapsnapshot files using take_memory_snapshot, use memlab to automatically find memory leaks.

  • Read references/memlab.md for how to use memlab to analyze the generated heapsnapshots.
  • Do not read raw .heapsnapshot files using read_file or cat.

3. Identifying Common Leaks

When you have found a leak trace (e.g., via memlab output), you must identify the root cause in the code.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. yesterday First seen · 51 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 20b53315a952

Subscribe to this mod's changes

memory-leak-debugging is a skill published in the GitHub repository az9713/chrome-devtools-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 631 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to memory-leak-debugging, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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