cmux-debugging

cmux-debugging is a skill for Codex from disler/learning-cmux-with-agents. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,012 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for diagnosing and instrumenting cmux, a macOS terminal app. It covers debug logs, UI and terminal-rendering problems, version-specific behaviour, and local testing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add or inspect event logs, investigate typing delays, debug tabs and sidebars, reproduce OS-specific issues, check drag-and-drop types, and iterate on the interface locally.
Why use it?
It helps identify whether a problem comes from runtime state, timing, list updates, drag-and-drop data, or a particular operating-system version. It also keeps temporary debug probes in the appropriate debug-only paths.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

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/disler/learning-cmux-with-agents/cmux-debugging
Any agent
npx skills add disler/learning-cmux-with-agents --skill cmux-debugging
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/disler/learning-cmux-with-agents

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,012 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 5.1 $0.00071 $0.01012
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00506
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00202
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00101

Measured 6d ago against content hash 448cfe0ec50a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cmux-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 6d 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.

ai_docs/cmux-skills/cmux-debugging/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

cmux Debugging

Debug event log

When adding debug event instrumentation, put events (keys, mouse, focus, splits, tabs) in the unified DEBUG build log. This is not a blanket requirement to add logs to every new code path. Most temporary probes should be added only during the dogfood debug loop and removed before merge.

tail -f "$(cat /tmp/cmux-last-debug-log-path 2>/dev/null || echo /tmp/cmux-debug.log)"
  • Untagged Debug app: /tmp/cmux-debug.log
  • Tagged Debug app (./scripts/reload.sh --tag <tag>): /tmp/cmux-debug-<tag>.log
  • reload.sh writes the current path to /tmp/cmux-last-debug-log-path
  • reload.sh writes the selected dev CLI path to /tmp/cmux-last-cli-path
  • reload.sh updates /tmp/cmux-cli and $HOME/.local/bin/cmux-dev to that CLI
  • Implementation: Packages/macOS/CMUXDebugLog/Sources/CMUXDebugLog/DebugEventLog.swift
  • App shim: Sources/App/DebugLogging.swift
  • Free function cmuxDebugLog("message") logs with timestamp and appends to file in real time from cmux code
  • The package implementation and app shim are #if DEBUG; all call sites must be wrapped in #if DEBUG / #endif
  • 500-entry ring buffer; CMUXDebugLog.DebugEventLog.shared.dump() writes full buffer to file
  • Key events logged in AppDelegate.swift (monitor, performKeyEquivalent)
  • Mouse/UI events logged inline in views (ContentView, BrowserPanelView, etc.)
  • Focus events: focus.panel, focus.bonsplit, focus.firstResponder, focus.moveFocus
  • Bonsplit events: tab.select, tab.close, tab.dragStart, tab.drop, pane.focus, pane.drop, divider.dragStart

Debug menu

The app has a Debug menu in the macOS menu bar only in DEBUG builds. Use it for visual iteration.

  • Debug > Debug Windows contains panels for tuning layout, colors, and behavior. Entries are alphabetical with no dividers.
  • To add a debug toggle or visual option: create an NSWindowController subclass with a shared singleton, add it to the "Debug Windows" menu in Sources/cmuxApp.swift, and add a SwiftUI view with @AppStorage bindings for live changes.
  • When the user says "debug menu" or "debug window", they mean this menu, not defaults write.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 6d ago First seen · 55 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 448cfe0ec50a

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cmux-debugging is a skill published in the GitHub repository disler/learning-cmux-with-agents (109 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,012 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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