debug

debug is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,261 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

Troubleshooting guidance for failed Ansible automation. Ansible is a tool that configures computers remotely, often over SSH, using YAML instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Investigating unreachable hosts, denied access, missing sudo passwords, module failures, and variable or template errors in Ansible runs.
Why use it?
It helps identify whether a failure comes from a network connection, login, permissions, an Ansible module, or an undefined variable instead of guessing at fixes.

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/ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks/debug
Any agent
npx skills add ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks --skill debug
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks

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 debug

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks/debug.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks/debug)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks/debug"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks/debug.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,261 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 5.1 $0.00035 $0.01261
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00630
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00126

Measured 5d ago against content hash ac700a94d574, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

debug scanned grade B 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

description: Use when playbooks fail with UNREACHABLE, permission denied, MODULE FAILURE, or undefined variable errors. Use when SSH connections fail or sudo password is missing.
ibm-bob/skills/infrastructure-as-code-ansible/debug/SKILL.md · 185 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ansible Debugging

Ansible errors fall into four categories: connection, authentication, module, and syntax. Systematic diagnosis starts with identifying the category, then isolating the specific cause.

Start with -v and increase only if needed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 185 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. 5d ago First seen · 185 lines · 35 tokens per session scan B ac700a94d574

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debug is a skill published in the GitHub repository ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks (24 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,261 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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