debugger

debugger is a skill for Claude Code from darrenhinde/OpenAgentsControl. It costs 19 tokens per session (1,256 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A methodical debugging guide for software problems, including bugs, failed tests, build failures, and unexpected behaviour. It requires investigating the underlying cause before suggesting a fix.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it whenever software behaves incorrectly or a test, build, performance issue, or integration fails. It guides investigation through distinct phases before any repair is proposed.
Why use it?
It prevents quick guesses and symptom-only patches that can introduce more problems. The process uses the error messages, reproduction steps, code history, and other evidence to identify the root cause.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the oac plugin — 12 skills, 6 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it whenever software behaves incorrectly or a test, build, performance issue, or integration fails. It guides investigation through distinct phases before any repair is proposed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/darrenhinde/openagentscontrol/debugger
About the project

OpenAgents Control is a framework that adds plan-first, approval-based coding workflows to OpenCode, an AI coding framework. Developers and teams use it to make agents follow shared coding patterns, work across several programming languages, and validate changes through testing and review. The catalogue includes its agents, skills, commands, plugin, and hook.

darrenhinde/OpenAgentsControl · 4,955 stars · on GitHub

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 darrenhinde/OpenAgentsControl --skill debugger
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/darrenhinde/OpenAgentsControl

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install oac, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 6 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,256 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00019 $0.01256
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00502
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00251
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00126

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 86514b447eab, 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 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/claude-code/skills/debugger/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Systematic Debugging

Overview

Random fixes waste time and create new bugs. Quick patches mask underlying issues.

Core principle: ALWAYS find root cause before attempting fixes. Symptom fixes are failure.

Violating the letter of this process is violating the spirit of debugging.

The Iron Law

NO FIXES WITHOUT ROOT CAUSE INVESTIGATION FIRST

If you haven't completed Phase 1, you cannot propose fixes.

When to Use

Use for ANY technical issue:

  • Test failures
  • Bugs in production
  • Unexpected behavior
  • Performance problems
  • Build failures
  • Integration issues

Use this ESPECIALLY when:

  • Under time pressure (emergencies make guessing tempting)
  • "Just one quick fix" seems obvious
  • You've already tried multiple fixes
  • Previous fix didn't work
  • You don't fully understand the issue

Don't skip when:

  • Issue seems simple (simple bugs have root causes too)
  • You're in a hurry (rushing guarantees rework)

The Four Phases

You MUST complete each phase before proceeding to the next.

Phase 1: Root Cause Investigation

BEFORE attempting ANY fix:

  1. Read Error Messages Carefully

    • Don't skip past errors or warnings
    • They often contain the exact solution
    • Read stack traces completely
    • Note line numbers, file paths, error codes
  2. Reproduce Consistently

    • Can you trigger it reliably?
    • What are the exact steps?
    • Does it happen every time?
    • If not reproducible → gather more data, don't guess
  3. Check Recent Changes

    • What changed that could cause this?
    • Git diff, recent commits
    • New dependencies, config changes
    • Environmental differences
  4. Gather Evidence in Multi-Component Systems

    WHEN system has multiple components:

    BEFORE proposing fixes, add diagnostic instrumentation:

    For EACH component boundary:
      - Log what data enters component
      - Log what data exits component
      - Verify environment/config propagation
      - Check state at each layer
    
    Run once to gather evidence showing WHERE it breaks
    THEN analyze evidence to identify failing component
    THEN investigate that specific component
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 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 · 161 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 86514b447eab

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debugger is a skill published in the GitHub repository darrenhinde/OpenAgentsControl (4,955 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 1,256 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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