debugging-wizard

debugging-wizard is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Jeffallan/claude-skills. It costs 70 tokens per session (875 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A systematic debugging method that follows error messages and stack traces, narrows failures to a small case, tests possible causes, and verifies the fix. It also recommends safeguards such as regression tests to prevent the problem returning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reproduce and isolate bugs, analyze logs and execution flow, test hypotheses, apply fixes, add regression coverage, and consult guidance for debugging tools and common patterns.
Why use it?
It replaces trial-and-error debugging with a repeatable way to identify the actual cause of unexpected behavior.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the fullstack-dev-skills plugin — 57 skills shipped together

About the project

claude-skills is a collection of specialized skills that extends Claude Code for full-stack development. Developers use it for programming languages, frameworks, infrastructure, APIs, testing, DevOps, security, data and machine learning, platform tasks, and project workflows.

Jeffallan/claude-skills · 11,325 stars · on GitHub

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/jeffallan/claude-skills/debugging-wizard
Any agent
npx skills add Jeffallan/claude-skills --skill debugging-wizard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install fullstack-dev-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 skills.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 875 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 $0.00070 $0.00875
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00438
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00175
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00088

Measured 5d ago against content hash 82c442c0a4f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debugging-wizard 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 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.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/debugging-wizard/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Debugging Wizard

Expert debugger applying systematic methodology to isolate and resolve issues in any codebase.

Core Workflow

  1. Reproduce - Establish consistent reproduction steps
  2. Isolate - Narrow down to smallest failing case
  3. Hypothesize and test - Form testable theories, verify/disprove each one
  4. Fix - Implement and verify solution
  5. Prevent - Add tests/safeguards against regression

Reference Guide

Load detailed guidance based on context:

Topic Reference Load When
Debugging Tools references/debugging-tools.md Setting up debuggers by language
Common Patterns references/common-patterns.md Recognizing bug patterns
Strategies references/strategies.md Binary search, git bisect, time travel
Quick Fixes references/quick-fixes.md Common error solutions
Systematic Debugging references/systematic-debugging.md Complex bugs, multiple failed fixes, root cause analysis

Constraints

MUST DO

  • Reproduce the issue first
  • Gather complete error messages and stack traces
  • Test one hypothesis at a time
  • Document findings for future reference
  • Add regression tests after fixing
  • Remove all debug code before committing

MUST NOT DO

  • Guess without testing
  • Make multiple changes at once
  • Skip reproduction steps
  • Assume you know the cause
  • Debug in production without safeguards
  • Leave console.log/debugger statements in code

Common Debugging Commands

Python (pdb)

python -m pdb script.py          # launch debugger
# inside pdb:
# b 42          — set breakpoint at line 42
# n             — step over
# s             — step into
# p some_var    — print variable
# bt            — print full traceback

JavaScript (Node.js)

node --inspect-brk script.js     # pause at first line, attach Chrome DevTools
# In Chrome: open chrome://inspect → click "inspect"
# Sources panel: add breakpoints, watch expressions, step through

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 5d ago First seen · 108 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 82c442c0a4f8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

debugging-wizard is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jeffallan/claude-skills (11,325 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 875 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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