insforge-debug

A troubleshooting guide for InsForge projects, covering backend errors, authentication, database access rules, real-time connections, performance, and deployments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to diagnose HTTP errors, login problems, access denials, slow endpoints, real-time issues, and failed or timed-out edge-function and Vercel deployments.
Why use it?
It gives agents a defined way to investigate failures using logs, metrics, database health checks, policies, metadata, and deployment state.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the insforge plugin — 4 skills shipped together

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/insforge/insforge-skills/insforge-debug
Any agent
npx skills add InsForge/insforge-skills --skill insforge-debug
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/InsForge/insforge-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install insforge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,680 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 $0.00107 $0.03680
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01840
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00736
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00368

Measured 3d ago against content hash 9cfe7d7640e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

insforge-debug 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 3d 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/insforge-debug/SKILL.md · 208 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 208 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

InsForge Debug

Diagnose problems in InsForge projects by combining the backend's observability primitives — logs, metrics, db-health, advisor, policies, metadata, error objects, deploy state, and AI assist. This skill provides:

  1. A reference per debug primitive (one observability surface each — under references/)
  2. Symptom Recipes (below) that name the primitive sequence for known reactive symptoms and proactive audits

Always use npx -y @insforge/cli — never install the CLI globally.

Fastest Path: AI-Assisted Triage

When the user gives a concrete description (error message, failing URL, HTTP status), hand it to the InsForge debug agent. Unlike the other primitives, this one returns suggestions, not just observations — verify the diagnosis against the primitives it cites before acting on it.

npx -y @insforge/cli diagnose --ai "<issue description>"

See references/ai-assisted.md for when to use this first vs when to skip, and how to verify the output.

Debug Primitives

Each primitive is one independently-queryable observability surface backed by a distinct underlying data source. Real diagnoses are compositions of primitives.

All commands run via npx -y @insforge/cli .... The (command) shown next to each primitive is the actual CLI command — primitive names are concept labels, not CLI subcommand names (e.g., "DB health" is diagnose db, not diagnose db-health; "Policies" is db policies, not diagnose policies).

Primitive (command) What you see Reference
Logs (logs <source>; diagnose logs for cross-source aggregate) Time-stream of events from 5 backend sources (insforge.logs / postgREST.logs / postgres.logs / function.logs / function-deploy.logs) references/logs.md
Metrics (diagnose metrics) EC2 instance time-series (CPU / memory / disk / network) over 1h / 6h / 24h / 7d references/metrics.md
DB health (diagnose db) Current Postgres state via 7 named checks (connections / slow-queries / bloat / size / index-usage / locks / cache-hit) references/db-health.md
Advisor (diagnose advisor --json) Static-scan issues across 3 categories (security / performance / health) with ruleId / affectedObject / recommendation references/advisor.md
Policies (db policies) Active RLS rules from pg_policies (USING / WITH CHECK per cmd per role) — returns all policies as a dump references/policies.md
Metadata (metadata --json) Declarative backend state dump (auth config / tables / buckets / functions / AI models / realtime channels) references/metadata.md
Error objects (no command — read SDK / HTTP response) SDK error envelope + HTTP status — the routing table from a client-visible error to the right log source references/error-objects.md
Deploy state (deployments list + deployments status <id> --json + logs function-deploy.logs) Frontend (Vercel) deployment history + per-deploy metadata, plus edge function deploy logs references/deploy-state.md
AI assist (diagnose --ai "<description>") LLM agent that combines the other primitives — returns a diagnosis with suggestions references/ai-assisted.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 208 lines

Files

What ships with it

10 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. 3d ago First seen · 208 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A 9cfe7d7640e4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

insforge-debug is a skill published in the GitHub repository InsForge/insforge-skills (36 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 3,680 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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