bilge-development-kit: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/debug/SKILL.md

debug is a skill for Claude Code from bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit. It costs 41 tokens per session (490 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A step-by-step debugging workflow for investigating errors and unexpected behavior. It gathers symptoms, proposes possible causes, tests them, explains the root cause, and applies a fix.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate bugs, broken features, error messages, or behavior that differs from what you expected.
Why use it?
It gives you a repeatable way to move from an error report to evidence-based diagnosis instead of guessing. It also records prevention measures for similar problems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

This is bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on bilge-development-kit itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything bilge-development-kit configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit/main/.claude/skills/debug/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 490 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 $0.00041 $0.00490
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00196
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00049

Measured 2mo ago against content hash aa1100149af0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debug 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.

.claude/skills/debug/SKILL.md · 111 lines

What it actually says

/debug - Systematic Problem Investigation

$ARGUMENTS


Purpose

This command activates DEBUG mode for systematic investigation of issues, errors, or unexpected behavior.


Behavior

When /debug is triggered:

  1. Gather information

    • Error message
    • Reproduction steps
    • Expected vs actual behavior
    • Recent changes
  2. Form hypotheses

    • List possible causes
    • Order by likelihood
  3. Investigate systematically

    • Test each hypothesis
    • Check logs, data flow
    • Use elimination method
  4. Fix and prevent

    • Apply fix
    • Explain root cause
    • Add prevention measures

Output Format

## 🔍 Debug: [Issue]

### 1. Symptom
[What's happening]

### 2. Information Gathered
- Error: `[error message]`
- File: `[filepath]`
- Line: [line number]

### 3. Hypotheses
1. ❓ [Most likely cause]
2. ❓ [Second possibility]
3. ❓ [Less likely cause]

### 4. Investigation

**Testing hypothesis 1:**
[What I checked] → [Result]

**Testing hypothesis 2:**
[What I checked] → [Result]

### 5. Root Cause
🎯 **[Explanation of why this happened]**

### 6. Fix
```[language]
// Before
[broken code]

// After
[fixed code]

7. Prevention

🛡️ [How to prevent this in the future]


---

## Examples

/debug login not working /debug API returns 500 /debug form doesn't submit /debug data not saving


---

## Key Principles

- **Ask before assuming** - get full error context
- **Test hypotheses** - don't guess randomly
- **Explain why** - not just what to fix
- **Prevent recurrence** - add tests, validation
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 · 111 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A aa1100149af0

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debug is a skill published in the GitHub repository bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit (10 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 490 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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