systematic-debugging

systematic-debugging is a skill for Claude Code from bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit. It costs 44 tokens per session (1,625 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for finding and fixing bugs, performance problems, and production incidents. It uses reproduction, isolation, evidence, and verification instead of trial and error.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate crashes, stack traces, slow software, distributed systems, and live-service incidents while using logs, traces, and other runtime signals.
Why use it?
It helps prevent random changes and makes it easier to identify the real cause of a problem, including issues that are hard to reproduce.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to investigate crashes, stack traces, slow software, distributed systems, and live-service incidents while using logs, traces, and other runtime signals.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit/systematic-debugging
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit --skill systematic-debugging
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,625 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 $0.00044 $0.01625
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00813
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00325
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00162

Measured 5d ago against content hash e756c914f826, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

systematic-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 5d 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/systematic-debugging/SKILL.md · 214 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Systematic Debugging

Source: obra/superpowers (enhanced with debugging-strategies and debugging-toolkit content)

Overview

This skill provides a structured approach to debugging that prevents random guessing and ensures problems are properly understood before solving. Covers everything from local debugging to production incident investigation.

Use this skill when

  • Tracking down elusive bugs
  • Investigating performance issues
  • Debugging production incidents
  • Analyzing crash dumps or stack traces
  • Debugging distributed systems

Do not use this skill when

  • There is no reproducible issue or observable symptom
  • The task is purely feature development
  • You cannot access logs, traces, or runtime signals

4-Phase Debugging Process

Phase 1: Reproduce

Before fixing, reliably reproduce the issue.

## Reproduction Steps
1. [Exact step to reproduce]
2. [Next step]
3. [Expected vs actual result]

## Reproduction Rate
- [ ] Always (100%)
- [ ] Often (50-90%)
- [ ] Sometimes (10-50%)
- [ ] Rare (<10%)

Phase 2: Isolate

Narrow down the source.

## Isolation Questions
- When did this start happening?
- What changed recently?
- Does it happen in all environments?
- Can we reproduce with minimal code?
- What's the smallest change that triggers it?

Phase 3: Understand

Find the root cause, not just symptoms.

## Root Cause Analysis
### The 5 Whys
1. Why: [First observation]
2. Why: [Deeper reason]
3. Why: [Still deeper]
4. Why: [Getting closer]
5. Why: [Root cause]

Phase 4: Fix & Verify

Fix and verify it's truly fixed.

## Fix Verification
- [ ] Bug no longer reproduces
- [ ] Related functionality still works
- [ ] No new issues introduced
- [ ] Test added to prevent regression

Hypothesis-Driven Debugging

For each hypothesis include:

  • Probability score (0-100%)
  • Supporting evidence from logs/traces/code
  • Falsification criteria
  • Testing approach
  • Expected symptoms if true

Read the full file on GitHub · 214 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. 5d ago First seen · 214 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A e756c914f826

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systematic-debugging is a skill published in the GitHub repository bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit (10 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,625 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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 2026-09-03.

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