debugging

debugging is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from duyet/oma. It costs 88 tokens per session (902 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A methodical workflow for finding the root cause of software bugs. It reproduces the failure, narrows it down, tests one hypothesis at a time, fixes the underlying problem, and adds a regression test.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reproduce errors, isolate failing inputs or code paths, inspect stack traces, verify a diagnosis, implement a root fix, and prove the bug stays fixed.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork and helps ensure that a fix addresses the actual failure rather than only hiding its visible symptom.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to reproduce errors, isolate failing inputs or code paths, inspect stack traces, verify a diagnosis, implement a root fix, and prove the bug stays fixed.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 902 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 $0.00088 $0.00902
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00361
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00090

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a6c625d01189, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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.

examples/skills/debugging/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

debugging

A bug you can't reproduce is a bug you can't fix — you'll just be guessing and calling it done. Work the loop: reproduce → isolate → hypothesize → verify → fix at the root → prove it stays fixed.

1. Reproduce before anything else

  • Get the exact repro steps, input, and environment. "It sometimes fails" is not a repro — find what makes it deterministic (specific input, ordering, timing, state).
  • Confirm you're looking at the real failure: run it yourself, read the actual error/stack trace/logs, don't work from a paraphrase of the symptom.
  • If it won't reproduce locally, get closer to production: same data shape, same config, same concurrency — the gap is usually the cause.

2. Isolate the failure

  • Bisect. Binary-search over commits (git bisect), inputs (halve the dataset until it still fails), or code paths (comment out / short-circuit sections) to shrink the failure to the smallest thing that still reproduces it.
  • Read the stack trace bottom-up for exceptions — the throw site, not just where it surfaced. For wrong-output bugs, trace the value backwards from where it's wrong to where it was last known-correct.
  • Separate "where it manifests" from "where it's caused" — a null-pointer three calls deep is usually a bad value passed in much earlier.

3. Form one hypothesis at a time

  • State the hypothesis explicitly ("I think X because Y") before changing code. A hypothesis you can't state, you can't falsify.
  • Test it with the smallest possible check — a log line, a debugger breakpoint, an assertion, a one-line repro script — not a speculative fix.
  • If the check disproves the hypothesis, say so and move to the next one. Don't quietly keep the disproven assumption baked into later reasoning.

4. Instrument, don't guess

  • Prefer a debugger or targeted logging at the exact point of divergence over scattering print/console.log everywhere. Each instrumentation point should answer a specific question.
  • Log actual values, not just "got here" — "reached line 42" tells you nothing a stack trace didn't already.
  • Remove debug instrumentation before calling the bug fixed; don't leave print-driven debugging in the shipped diff.

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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 · 79 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A a6c625d01189

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debugging is a skill published in the GitHub repository duyet/oma (10 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 902 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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