reproduce-bug

reproduce-bug is a skill for Claude Code from Jerrylalala/compound-engineering. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,774 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of reproduce-bug, MIT.

A structured workflow for investigating a bug reported in a GitHub issue. GitHub Issues are project records used to describe problems, expected behavior, and relevant environment details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reproduce and investigate bugs across different programming languages and frameworks.
Why use it?
It turns an issue report into testable reproduction steps and documented evidence before you change code.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the compound-engineering plugin — 78 skills, 4 commands, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to reproduce and investigate bugs across different programming languages and frameworks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jerrylalala/compound-engineering/reproduce-bug
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 Jerrylalala/compound-engineering --skill reproduce-bug
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jerrylalala/compound-engineering

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install compound-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 78 skills, 4 commands, 2 hooks.

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 reproduce-bug

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for reproduce-bug

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,774 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00039 $0.01774
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00887
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00355
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00177

Measured 7d ago against content hash c61767cfa1c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reproduce-bug 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 7d 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

This is a copy

100% identical to reproduce-bug — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/compound-engineering/skills/reproduce-bug/SKILL.md · 195 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 195 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reproduce Bug

A framework-agnostic, hypothesis-driven workflow for reproducing and investigating bugs from issue reports. Works across any language, framework, or project type.

Phase 1: Understand the Issue

Fetch and analyze the bug report to extract structured information before touching the codebase.

Fetch the issue

If no issue number or URL was provided as an argument, ask the user for one before proceeding (using the platform's question tool -- e.g., AskUserQuestion in Claude Code, request_user_input in Codex, ask_user in Gemini -- or present a prompt and wait for a reply).

gh issue view $ARGUMENTS --json title,body,comments,labels,assignees

If the argument is a URL rather than a number, extract the issue number or pass the URL directly to gh.

Extract key details

Read the issue and comments, then identify:

  • Reported symptoms -- what the user observed (error message, wrong output, visual glitch, crash)
  • Expected behavior -- what should have happened instead
  • Reproduction steps -- any steps the reporter provided
  • Environment clues -- browser, OS, version, user role, data conditions
  • Frequency -- always reproducible, intermittent, or one-time

If the issue lacks reproduction steps or is ambiguous, note what is missing -- this shapes the investigation strategy.

Phase 2: Hypothesize

Before running anything, form theories about the root cause. This focuses the investigation and prevents aimless exploration.

Search for relevant code

Use the native content-search tool (e.g., Grep in Claude Code) to find code paths related to the reported symptoms. Search for:

  • Error messages or strings mentioned in the issue
  • Feature names, route paths, or UI labels described in the report
  • Related model/service/controller names

Form hypotheses

Based on the issue details and code search results, write down 2-3 plausible hypotheses. Each should identify:

  • What might be wrong (e.g., "race condition in session refresh", "nil check missing on optional field")
  • Where in the codebase (specific files and line ranges)
  • Why it would produce the reported symptoms

Read the full file on GitHub · 195 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. 7d ago First seen · 195 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A c61767cfa1c6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reproduce-bug is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jerrylalala/compound-engineering (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,774 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to reproduce-bug, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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