triage

triage is a skill for Claude Code from bdfinst/agentic-dev-team. It costs 80 tokens per session (1,986 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A bug-investigation workflow that finds a likely root cause and writes a portable triage report, a structured record of the problem and proposed fix, to the project. TDD means test-driven development: writing tests to guide a fix.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a bug needs investigation and a written TDD fix plan, without directly changing the code or requiring an issue tracker.
Why use it?
It separates investigation from implementation and records an actionable fix plan instead of stopping at a symptom or an unverified guess.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the dev-team plugin — 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when a bug needs investigation and a written TDD fix plan, without directly changing the code or requiring an issue tracker.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add bdfinst/agentic-dev-team
Claude Code
/plugin install dev-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,986 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 $0.00080 $0.01986
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00794
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00397
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00199

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ad5855cd5f28, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

triage 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 1mo 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.

plugins/dev-team/skills/triage/SKILL.md · 212 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 212 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bug Triage

Role: worker.

Investigate a bug hands-off, find root cause, and write a TDD fix plan to a portable triage record at .dev-team-reports/triage/<slug>.md — no issue-tracker dependency.

Worker constraints

  1. Investigate and record; do not fix the bug.
  2. Find root cause before recording; do not record on symptoms alone — and do not record an unverified, unrelated finding as if it were the root cause; use the unconfirmed outcome instead.
  3. Be concise. The record is structured; chat is the triage-record: line plus a one-line root-cause summary — not the full body.

Process

1. Capture the Problem

Get the bug description from the arguments or conversation. If no description is given, ask EXACTLY one question: What's the problem you're seeing? and stop. If a description is given, ask nothing — start investigating immediately.

Scoped exception: if the description signals a cross-service or intermittent symptom (it names multiple repos/services, or uses language like "intermittent", "sometimes", or "inconsistently"), ask ONE additional targeted question before investigating: Do you have any of the following: logs, a sample request/response pair, trace/audit IDs, or a config/pipeline export? This is a narrow exception for that signal only — the "ask nothing" rule above still applies to every other description, and the no-description fallback question above is unchanged.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

2. Investigate

Apply the systematic debugging protocol from skills/systematic-debugging/SKILL.md:

  1. Reproduce: Run the failing test or trigger the error
  2. Investigate: Trace data flow, check recent changes, find working reference code
  3. Root cause: Form and test a hypothesis

Use the Agent tool with subagent_type: "Explore" to deeply investigate the codebase: related source files and dependencies, existing tests (covered vs missing), recent changes to affected files (git log), error handling in the code path, and similar patterns elsewhere that work correctly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 212 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. 1mo ago First seen · 212 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A ad5855cd5f28

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triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository bdfinst/agentic-dev-team (295 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 1,986 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-05.