systematic-debugging

systematic-debugging is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CassianFlorin/skill-hub-registry. It costs 0 tokens per session (192 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A step-by-step method for finding the cause of a failing command, test, build, service, or user workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record symptoms and evidence, trace failures to code or configuration, identify the root cause, apply a focused fix, and verify it.
Why use it?
It prevents guesswork by requiring the exact failure to be reproduced, one hypothesis to be checked at a time, and the original problem to be tested again after a fix.

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/cassianflorin/skill-hub-registry/systematic-debugging
Any agent
npx skills add CassianFlorin/skill-hub-registry --skill systematic-debugging
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CassianFlorin/skill-hub-registry

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.

agentmods badge for systematic-debugging

README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 192 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00192
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00096
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00038
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00019

Measured 4d ago against content hash 48312e44fc59, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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/official/systematic-debugging/SKILL.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Systematic Debugging

Use this skill when a command, test, build, service, or user workflow is failing.

Instructions

  • Reproduce the exact symptom before proposing a fix.
  • Capture the failing command, input, output, and environment assumptions.
  • Trace from the symptom to the responsible code or configuration boundary.
  • Form one hypothesis at a time and choose the smallest check that can disprove it.
  • Change code only after the evidence points to a specific cause.
  • After fixing, rerun the original failing check and a focused regression check.

Common Mistakes

  • Treating a nearby warning as the root cause.
  • Fixing code that was not exercised by the failing path.
  • Using a broad green test suite as proof that the original symptom is fixed.
  • Hiding uncertainty instead of naming the missing evidence.

Output Shape

  • Symptom reproduced.
  • Evidence trail.
  • Root cause.
  • Fix.
  • Verification.
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 4d ago First seen · 28 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 48312e44fc59

Subscribe to this mod's changes

systematic-debugging is a skill published in the GitHub repository CassianFlorin/skill-hub-registry (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 192 tokens. 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.