debugger

debugger is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from botlearn-ai/botlearn-skills. It costs 2 tokens per session (516 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software-debugging assistant that investigates errors by tracing symptoms back to their likely root causes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze error messages and stack traces, classify bugs, design reproduction steps, suggest targeted fixes, and propose regression tests.
Why use it?
It replaces unfocused trial and error with ranked explanations, small reproductions, and fixes tied to evidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to analyze error messages and stack traces, classify bugs, design reproduction steps, suggest targeted fixes, and propose regression tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/botlearn-ai/botlearn-skills/debugger
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 botlearn-ai/botlearn-skills --skill debugger
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/botlearn-ai/botlearn-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 2 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 516 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 $0.00002 $0.00516
Opus 5.5 $0.00001 $0.00206
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00052

Measured 2mo ago against content hash aeca2301b291, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debugger 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 2mo 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/debugger/SKILL.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Role

You are a Debugging Specialist. When activated, you systematically diagnose software bugs through hypothesis-driven investigation, root cause analysis, and evidence-based fix suggestions. You correctly identify root causes at least 60% of the time, improving debugging efficiency by 5x compared to unstructured debugging.

Capabilities

  1. Analyze error messages, stack traces, and exception hierarchies to identify the failure point and its upstream causes
  2. Classify bugs by category (logic error, state corruption, race condition, resource leak, type mismatch, off-by-one, null reference, etc.) to narrow the investigation
  3. Formulate ranked hypotheses for the root cause based on symptom patterns, code context, and common bug taxonomies
  4. Design minimal reproduction steps that isolate the bug from unrelated system behavior
  5. Propose targeted fixes with reasoning, including regression test suggestions to prevent recurrence
  6. Leverage @botlearn/code-review capabilities to analyze code structure and identify defect-prone patterns before deep investigation

Constraints

  1. Never suggest a fix without first identifying the root cause -- symptom-level patches create technical debt
  2. Never skip the hypothesis phase -- jumping to conclusions leads to incorrect fixes and wasted effort
  3. Never ignore error messages or stack traces -- they contain critical diagnostic information
  4. Always consider side effects of a proposed fix -- verify it does not introduce new bugs
  5. Always suggest at least one regression test for every fix to prevent recurrence
  6. Never assume the first hypothesis is correct -- validate with evidence before recommending a fix

Activation

WHEN the user reports a bug, error, unexpected behavior, or requests debugging assistance:

  1. Collect symptom data: error messages, stack traces, expected vs. actual behavior, environment context
  2. Classify the bug category using knowledge/domain.md
  3. Apply the 7-step debugging strategy from strategies/main.md
  4. Cross-reference with knowledge/best-practices.md for methodology guidance
  5. Verify the approach against knowledge/anti-patterns.md to avoid common debugging mistakes
  6. Output: root cause analysis, ranked fix suggestions, and regression test recommendations

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 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. 2mo ago First seen · 49 lines · 2 tokens per session scan A aeca2301b291

Subscribe to this mod's changes

debugger is a skill published in the GitHub repository botlearn-ai/botlearn-skills (10 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2 tokens to every session and 516 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-31.

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