cortex-m-debug

cortex-m-debug is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from easyzoom/aix-skills. It costs 31 tokens per session (2,274 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A troubleshooting guide for ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers, the small chips commonly used in embedded boards, during firmware startup and debugging.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for SWD or JTAG sessions, firmware flashing, boot failures, HardFaults, reset handling, vector tables, linker scripts, and fault registers.
Why use it?
It helps identify whether a failure comes from the chip, board, debugger, flashing process, startup code, clocks, or memory layout before risky changes are made.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for SWD or JTAG sessions, firmware flashing, boot failures, HardFaults, reset handling, vector tables, linker scripts, and fault registers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/easyzoom/aix-skills/cortex-m-debug
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add easyzoom/aix-skills --skill cortex-m-debug
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/easyzoom/aix-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,274 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 $0.00031 $0.02274
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00910
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00455
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00227

Measured 1mo ago against content hash be77eb4b120a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cortex-m-debug 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/cortex-m-debug/SKILL.md · 242 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 242 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cortex-M Debug

Overview

Use this skill to debug ARM Cortex-M firmware systematically. Start by identifying the exact MCU, board state, debug probe, toolchain, and failure phase, then choose the safest inspection path before changing flash, option bytes, clocks, or startup code.

When To Use

Use this skill when:

  • The target is a Cortex-M MCU, such as Cortex-M0/M0+/M3/M4/M7/M23/M33/M55/M85.
  • The user mentions SWD, JTAG, J-Link, ST-Link, CMSIS-DAP, OpenOCD, pyOCD, GDB, or vendor IDE debug.
  • Firmware does not boot, cannot be flashed, stops in Reset_Handler, hits HardFault, or has no UART/log output.
  • The task involves vector tables, startup files, linker scripts, clocks, reset behavior, or fault registers.

Do not use this skill when:

  • The target is Cortex-R (use cortex-r5-debug), embedded Linux, RISC-V, AVR, ESP8266, ESP32 Xtensa, or another non-Cortex-M architecture.
  • The user only needs application-level C code review with no target-specific debug context.
  • The request is to modify production firmware or security configuration before collecting baseline evidence.

First Questions

Ask for the minimum context needed:

  • MCU part number and board name.
  • Core family if known, such as Cortex-M0+, M4F, M7, or M33.
  • Current symptom: cannot connect, cannot flash, no boot, crash, hang, wrong peripheral behavior, or no logs.
  • Debug probe: J-Link, ST-Link, CMSIS-DAP, DAPLink, ULINK, or onboard probe.
  • Debug transport: SWD or JTAG.
  • Toolchain and workflow: OpenOCD, pyOCD, J-Link GDB Server, STM32CubeIDE, Keil, IAR, PlatformIO, Zephyr, RTOS, or bare metal.
  • Available artifacts: ELF, MAP file, linker script, startup file, OpenOCD config, boot log, fault dump, or GDB transcript.

Workflow

  1. Classify the failure phase. Use these buckets: probe cannot connect, flash/download fails, reset/startup fails, runtime fault, peripheral bring-up fails, or low-power/wakeup fails.

  2. Establish a non-destructive debug connection. Prefer connect-under-reset when firmware may reconfigure SWD pins, enter low power, or crash immediately.

Read the full file on GitHub · 242 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 · 242 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A be77eb4b120a

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cortex-m-debug is a skill published in the GitHub repository easyzoom/aix-skills (38 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 2,274 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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