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.
npx skills add HezaoHezao/poirot --skill python-debugpygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HezaoHezao/poirotWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/hezaohezao/poirot/python-debugpy)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hezaohezao/poirot/python-debugpy"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hezaohezao/poirot/python-debugpy/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hezaohezao/poirot/python-debugpy"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hezaohezao/poirot/python-debugpy.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00017 | $0.01206 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00482 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00241 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00121 |
Grade A, and why
python-debugpy 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Python Debugger (pdb + debugpy)
Overview
Three tools, picked by situation:
| Tool | When |
|---|---|
breakpoint() + pdb |
Local, interactive, simplest. Add breakpoint() in source, run, get REPL. |
python -m pdb |
Launch script under pdb with no source edits. |
debugpy |
Remote / headless / attach to running process. DAP, scriptable. |
Start with breakpoint(). It's the cheapest thing that works.
When to Use
- A test fails and the traceback doesn't reveal why a value is wrong
- You need to step through a function and watch a collection mutate
- A long-running process misbehaves and you can't restart it
- Post-mortem: an exception fired and you want to inspect locals at crash site
- A subprocess is the actual bug site
Don't use for: things print() / logging.debug solve in under a minute,
or things pytest -vv --tb=long --showlocals already reveals.
pdb Quick Reference
Inside any pdb prompt ((Pdb)):
| Command | Action |
|---|---|
h / h cmd |
help |
n |
next line (step over) |
s |
step into |
r |
return from current function |
c |
continue |
unt N |
continue until line N |
j N |
jump to line N (same function only) |
b N |
set breakpoint at line N |
b file:N |
set breakpoint in another file |
b func |
set breakpoint at function |
cl N |
clear breakpoint N |
l |
list 11 lines around current |
ll |
list whole function |
w / where |
show call stack |
u / d |
move up/down stack frame |
p expr |
print expression |
pp expr |
pretty-print expression |
a |
print args of current function |
args |
same as a |
display expr |
watch expression (re-eval each step) |
interact |
drop into interactive Python REPL |
Using breakpoint()
def process(data):
result = transform(data)
breakpoint() # Execution pauses here, pdb REPL opens
return result
Run normally:
python script.py
# Pauses at breakpoint(), (Pdb) prompt appears
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 175 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 562f895cf95d
python-debugpy is a skill published in the GitHub repository HezaoHezao/poirot (251 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 1,206 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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