debug

A step-by-step method for finding the root cause of errors and unexpected behavior. It starts by collecting the exact failure, expected result, environment, and relevant details before changing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate error messages, failing tests, broken features, and intermittent or environment-specific problems.
Why use it?
It reduces trial-and-error fixes that only hide symptoms and may cause the same problem to return.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/floomhq/moto/debug
Any agent
npx skills add floomhq/moto --skill debug
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/floomhq/moto

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 819 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 $0.00066 $0.00819
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00409
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00164
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00082

Measured 2d ago against content hash 710eaa2d9444, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2d 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.

claude/skills/debug/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Debug Skill

Principle: Root Cause, Not Quick Fix

The goal is to find WHY something is broken, not to patch the symptom. A quick fix that doesn't address the root cause will resurface.

Step 1: Understand the failure

Collect the full picture:

  • What is the exact error message? (copy verbatim, don't paraphrase)
  • What was the expected behavior?
  • What is the actual behavior?
  • When did it start failing? (after which change?)
  • Does it fail consistently or intermittently?
  • What environment? (local / staging / prod, OS, Node/Python version)

Step 2: Read the error carefully

Before touching any code:

  • Read the FULL stack trace, not just the first line
  • Note the file and line number where it originated
  • Note any "caused by" or nested exceptions
  • Check if there are warning messages before the error

Step 3: Form a hypothesis

Based on the error, form a hypothesis about what's wrong. Common categories:

  • Data issue: null/undefined where not expected, wrong type, out of range
  • Logic issue: wrong condition, off-by-one, state mutation
  • Dependency issue: wrong version, missing module, API change
  • Environment issue: missing env var, wrong config, permission denied
  • Timing issue: race condition, async/await missing, order of operations
  • Network issue: timeout, DNS, CORS, SSL

Step 4: Verify the hypothesis

Verify, don't assume. For each hypothesis:

# Add targeted logging to confirm
console.log('DEBUG:', variableName, typeof variableName);

# Check values at the point of failure
# Read the actual code at the error location
# Check the data flowing in

Step 5: Find the root cause

Trace backwards from the failure:

  1. Where does the error originate?
  2. What called that code?
  3. What data was passed?
  4. Where was that data set?
  5. Is the data wrong, or is the code wrong?

Use git log and git blame to understand when and why code was written a certain way.

Step 6: Fix and verify

Once root cause is confirmed:

  1. Make the minimal fix
  2. Verify the original error is gone
  3. Check no new errors were introduced
  4. Add a test to prevent regression

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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. 2d ago First seen · 111 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 710eaa2d9444

Subscribe to this mod's changes

debug is a skill published in the GitHub repository floomhq/moto (32 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 819 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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