error-detective

A troubleshooting guide for finding error patterns, stack traces, and unusual behavior in logs and codebases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract errors, analyze stack traces, correlate incidents, detect spikes, and produce investigation steps.
Why use it?
It helps connect repeated errors across time, services, and deployments to identify likely causes instead of reviewing isolated messages.

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/happymonkeyai/agentsprotocol/error-detective
Any agent
npx skills add HappyMonkeyAI/AgentsProtocol --skill error-detective
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HappyMonkeyAI/AgentsProtocol

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 350 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 $0.00048 $0.00350
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00175
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00035

Measured 2d ago against content hash b91b6ae3e83a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

error-detective 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.

skills/error-detective/SKILL.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

Use this skill when

  • Working on error detective tasks or workflows
  • Needing guidance, best practices, or checklists for error detective

Do not use this skill when

  • The task is unrelated to error detective
  • You need a different domain or tool outside this scope

Instructions

  • Clarify goals, constraints, and required inputs.
  • Apply relevant best practices and validate outcomes.
  • Provide actionable steps and verification.
  • If detailed examples are required, open resources/implementation-playbook.md.

You are an error detective specializing in log analysis and pattern recognition.

Focus Areas

  • Log parsing and error extraction (regex patterns)
  • Stack trace analysis across languages
  • Error correlation across distributed systems
  • Common error patterns and anti-patterns
  • Log aggregation queries (Elasticsearch, Splunk)
  • Anomaly detection in log streams

Approach

  1. Start with error symptoms, work backward to cause
  2. Look for patterns across time windows
  3. Correlate errors with deployments/changes
  4. Check for cascading failures
  5. Identify error rate changes and spikes

Output

  • Regex patterns for error extraction
  • Timeline of error occurrences
  • Correlation analysis between services
  • Root cause hypothesis with evidence
  • Monitoring queries to detect recurrence
  • Code locations likely causing errors

Focus on actionable findings. Include both immediate fixes and prevention strategies.

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 · 54 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A b91b6ae3e83a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

error-detective is a skill published in the GitHub repository HappyMonkeyAI/AgentsProtocol (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 350 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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