systematic-debugging

systematic-debugging is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dirge-code/dirge. It costs 34 tokens per session (1,283 once invoked), scanned A, original, GPL-3.0.

A step-by-step method for investigating bugs, failed tests, and unexpected behavior by finding the underlying cause first.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps examine failures, trace them to their root cause, and guide the next fix. The input does not describe any particular debugging tool or automatic repair.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of applying a quick fix that only hides the visible symptom while leaving the real problem in place.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit It helps examine failures, trace them to their root cause, and guide the next fix. The input does not describe any particular debugging tool or automatic repair.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dirge-code/dirge/systematic-debugging
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 dirge-code/dirge --skill systematic-debugging
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dirge-code/dirge

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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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,283 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 unknown 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 $0.00034 $0.01283
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00513
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00257
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00128

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 00f15663310d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 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.

skills/systematic-debugging/SKILL.md · 129 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 129 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 00f15663310d

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systematic-debugging is a skill published in the GitHub repository dirge-code/dirge (370 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,283 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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