node-inspect-debugger

node-inspect-debugger is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GGbond-bo/MemOmics-Agent. It costs 19 tokens per session (2,962 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of node-inspect-debugger, MIT.

A terminal-based debugger for Node.js programs using Node’s built-in inspector. It lets you pause execution, set breakpoints, step through code, inspect values, and evaluate expressions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate failing tests, broken terminal interfaces, child-process problems, CPU usage, or memory usage in running Node.js programs.
Why use it?
It shows program state at the exact point where something goes wrong, including values inside functions and closures that logging may not expose.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for hermes-agent. Also seen: built for hermes-agent.

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /home/bb/hermes-agent/ui-tui.

Good fit Use it to investigate failing tests, broken terminal interfaces, child-process problems, CPU usage, or memory usage in running Node.js programs.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,962 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 98% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00019 $0.02962
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01481
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00592
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00296

Measured 3d ago against content hash f2f72c0c9e67, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

node-inspect-debugger scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s http://127.0.0.1:9229/json/list | jq -r '.[0].webSocketDebuggerUrl'
Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to node-inspect-debugger — 6 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

hermes-agent/skills/software-development/node-inspect-debugger/SKILL.md · 320 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 320 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Node.js Inspect Debugger

Overview

When console.log isn't enough, drive Node's built-in V8 inspector programmatically from the terminal. You get real breakpoints, step in/over/out, call-stack walking, local/closure scope dumps, and arbitrary expression evaluation in the paused frame.

Two tools, pick one:

  • node inspect — built-in, zero install, CLI REPL. Best for quick poking.
  • ndb / CDP via chrome-remote-interface — scriptable from Node/Python; best when you want to automate many breakpoints, collect state across runs, or debug non-interactively from an agent loop.

Prefer node inspect first. It's always available and the REPL is fast.

When to Use

  • A Node test fails and you need to see intermediate state
  • ui-tui crashes or behaves wrong and you want to inspect React/Ink state pre-render
  • tui_gateway child processes (_SlashWorker, PTY bridge workers) misbehave
  • You need to inspect a value in a closure that console.log can't reach without patching
  • Perf: attach to a running process to capture a CPU profile or heap snapshot

Don't use for: things console.log solves in under a minute. Breakpoint-driven debugging is heavier; use it when the payoff is real.

Quick Reference: node inspect REPL

Launch paused on first line:

node inspect path/to/script.js
# or with tsx
node --inspect-brk $(which tsx) path/to/script.ts

The debug> prompt accepts:

Command Action
c or cont continue
n or next step over
s or step step into
o or out step out
pause pause running code
sb('file.js', 42) set breakpoint at file.js line 42
sb(42) set breakpoint at line 42 of current file
sb('functionName') break when function is called
cb('file.js', 42) clear breakpoint
breakpoints list all breakpoints
bt backtrace (call stack)
list(5) show 5 lines of source around current position
watch('expr') evaluate expr on every pause
watchers show watched expressions
repl drop into REPL in current scope (Ctrl+C to exit REPL)
exec expr evaluate expression once
restart restart script
kill kill the script
.exit quit debugger

Read the full file on GitHub · 320 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. 3d ago First seen · 320 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A f2f72c0c9e67

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node-inspect-debugger is a skill published in the GitHub repository GGbond-bo/MemOmics-Agent (19 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 2,962 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 98% identical to node-inspect-debugger, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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