mps-bugfix

A step-by-step workflow for investigating and fixing a JetBrains MPS bug tracked in YouTrack, a project issue-management system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preflight checks, parallel investigation, solution design, branch creation, implementation approval, code review, testing, and YouTrack updates.
Why use it?
It ensures the issue is checked, analyzed, reviewed, and validated in order before code is changed.

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/jetbrains/mps/mps-bugfix
Any agent
npx skills add JetBrains/MPS --skill mps-bugfix
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JetBrains/MPS

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,497 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 $0.00087 $0.01497
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00749
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00150

Measured 3d ago against content hash 00e8baddab9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mps-bugfix 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.

.agents/skills/mps-bugfix/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MPS Bugfix Workflow

You are guiding a structured bugfix process for the JetBrains MPS project. Follow each phase in order. Never skip phases or start implementation before the user gives an explicit command to do so.

The issue to fix: $ARGUMENTS

Critical Directives

  • Never start implementing code before the user gives explicit approval. Wait for "implement", "go ahead", "start coding", "do it", etc.
  • Never skip Phase 0 preflight. Missing YouTrack MCP, IDEA MCP, or the platform project changes how you should proceed; surface the gap before touching code.
  • Prefer fixing the true source of truth (MPS model/generator) over patching generated code.
  • Use IDEA MCP for Java/Kotlin navigation and inspection; use MPS MCP for MPS model edits.
  • Validate after each logical changemcp_idea_get_file_problems on modified files, build affected module, run smallest relevant test suite.

Phase 0 — Pre-flight Checks

Verify all required tools and inputs before doing any work.

0.1 — Issue ID

If $ARGUMENTS is empty, stop immediately and ask:

Which YouTrack issue should I work on? Please provide the issue ID (e.g. MPS-12345).

Do not continue until a valid-looking issue ID is supplied.

0.2 — YouTrack MCP

Check that the YouTrack MCP server tools are available in this session (by attempting to call get_issue).

If they are not available:

YouTrack MCP is not connected. Please start the YouTrack MCP server and retry.

Stop until the tools are available.

0.3 — Fetch the issue

Call get_issue with the provided issue ID. If the issue does not exist, report the error and stop. If it exists, extract and display the fields listed in references/issue-fields.md. Keep the raw issue data available for later phases.

0.4 — IDEA MCP (MPS project)

Check that the mcp_idea_* tools are available.

If not available:

IDEA MCP is not connected. Please open the MPS project in IntelliJ IDEA with the MCP plugin running and retry.

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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 · 135 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 00e8baddab9f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mps-bugfix is a skill published in the GitHub repository JetBrains/MPS (1,657 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 1,497 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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