debug-mantra

debug-mantra is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HiQS-Labs/XYZ-forge. It costs 216 tokens per session (2,226 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A four-step method for debugging software: reproduce the problem, trace its failure path, challenge the suspected cause, and compare all available clues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during an explicit /debug-mantra request or when investigating a software failure.
Why use it?
It provides a fixed investigation process before proposing a code change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it during an explicit /debug-mantra request or when investigating a software failure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hiqs-labs/xyz-forge/debug-mantra
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 HiQS-Labs/XYZ-forge --skill debug-mantra
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HiQS-Labs/XYZ-forge

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.

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README.md
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 216 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,226 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 unknown 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 $0.00216 $0.02226
Opus 5 $0.00108 $0.01113
Sonnet 5 $0.00043 $0.00445
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00223

Measured 5d ago against content hash 53a12206157f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debug-mantra 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 5d 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.

- **Reliable repro** → capture the exact steps, inputs, and environment as a runnable artifact: failing test, curl script, CLI invocation, replay harness.
skills/debug-mantra/SKILL.md · 95 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 5d ago Changed · +15 lines · +216 tokens per session 53a12206157f
  2. 9d ago First seen · 80 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 64729c28dccd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

debug-mantra is a skill published in the GitHub repository HiQS-Labs/XYZ-forge (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 216 tokens to every session and 2,226 once invoked, about $0.0011 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 2026-08-31.

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