reproduce-bug

reproduce-bug is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from googleapis/mcp-toolbox. It costs 130 tokens per session (2,711 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for investigating whether a reported bug in the Google MCP Toolbox is real and determining its cause. It requires evidence for factual claims and uses the cheapest valid checks first.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps reproduce or verify reports and classify them as confirmed, already fixed, misconfigured, client-side, intended behavior, unreproducible, or blocked.
Why use it?
Many reports may come from configuration, client software, or an old version rather than the server itself, so it avoids treating every report as a confirmed code defect.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Gemini CLI.

Good fit It helps reproduce or verify reports and classify them as confirmed, already fixed, misconfigured, client-side, intended behavior, unreproducible, or blocked.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/reproduce-bug
About the project

MCP Toolbox for Databases is an open-source Model Context Protocol server that connects AI agents, development environments, and applications to enterprise databases through ready-made or custom tools. It is for exploring schemas, querying data, generating code, and building specialized database tools for production agents. The catalogue includes its skills, instructions, and MCP server integration.

googleapis/mcp-toolbox · 16,363 stars · on GitHub · mcp-toolbox.dev

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 googleapis/mcp-toolbox --skill reproduce-bug
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for reproduce-bug

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/reproduce-bug/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/reproduce-bug)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for reproduce-bug

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/reproduce-bug"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/reproduce-bug.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 130 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,711 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 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 $0.00130 $0.02711
Opus 5 $0.00065 $0.01355
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00542
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00271

Measured today against content hash 639d3073abe0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reproduce-bug 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 today.

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.

- **Transport and client.** Direct `curl`, an SDK, Gemini CLI, an IDE? The bug
skills/maintainer/reproduce-bug/SKILL.md · 217 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 217 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reproduce a Bug Report (mcp-toolbox)

Scope: googleapis/mcp-toolbox

About half of reported bugs are not bugs in Toolbox server code: they are misconfiguration, a client-side problem, or something already fixed in a version the reporter has not upgraded to. So the job is not "make it fail", it is to reach a defensible verdict at the lowest cost. Work cheapest-first and stop the moment the evidence settles it. Building a full reproduction for something a one-line version check would have explained is the main way this goes wrong.

The Evidence Rule

Every factual claim MUST cite evidence: a file:line, a commit SHA, a version string, or the exact command and its output. Otherwise mark it [UNVERIFIED] and say what would confirm it.

Cite file:line in your findings, where the claim is about the tree as it is now. This skill's own pointers name files and symbols instead, since line numbers go stale between releases while symbols survive refactors. Resolve one with grep -rn '<symbol>' --include="*.go" and read it before citing a line.

Reproducing a bug proves it exists. Failing to reproduce proves much less, and only counts if the attempt was valid, so word the two differently.

Verdicts

Every run ends in exactly one:

Verdict Means
confirmed Reproduced on current main. Real, still open.
already-fixed Reproduces on their version, not on main. Needs a release note or a link to the fix.
misconfiguration Their config or environment.
client-side In an SDK, CLI, or LLM client, not the server. Often belongs in another repo.
works-as-intended Deliberate behaviour, frequently a breaking change they have not read.
not-reproducible The attempt was valid and it did not fail.
blocked Needs infrastructure or credentials you do not have. Say exactly what.

1. Pin the claim down

Read the issue and all comments before touching code.

gh issue view <n> --repo googleapis/mcp-toolbox --json number,title,body,author,labels,comments,createdAt

Read the full file on GitHub · 217 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. today First seen · 217 lines · 130 tokens per session scan A 639d3073abe0

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reproduce-bug is a skill published in the GitHub repository googleapis/mcp-toolbox (16,363 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 130 tokens to every session and 2,711 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-10.

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