debug-with-ai

debug-with-ai is a skill for Claude Code from latestaiagents/agent-skills. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,660 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured guide for using AI to investigate bugs, errors, unexpected behavior, performance problems, and memory leaks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare bug reports, analyze errors and stack traces, troubleshoot applications, and confirm fixes with tests.
Why use it?
It gives debugging a clear sequence: reproduce the problem, narrow down its location, understand the cause, apply a small fix, and verify it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the developer-toolkit plugin — 19 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare bug reports, analyze errors and stack traces, troubleshoot applications, and confirm fixes with tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/latestaiagents/agent-skills/debug-with-ai
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 latestaiagents/agent-skills --skill debug-with-ai
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/latestaiagents/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install developer-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,660 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 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 $0.00049 $0.01660
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00830
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00332
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00166

Measured 8d ago against content hash bc987260baea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debug-with-ai 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 8d 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.

plugins/developer-toolkit/skills/code-intelligence/debug-with-ai/SKILL.md · 336 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 336 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Debug with AI

Structured debugging workflows using AI as your debugging partner.

When to Use

  • Code throws an error you don't understand
  • Feature works sometimes but not always
  • Unexpected behavior that's hard to trace
  • Performance issues or memory leaks
  • Complex stack traces to decipher

The Debugging Framework

┌───────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ 1. REPRODUCE - Can you trigger it?        │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 2. ISOLATE - Where exactly is the issue?  │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 3. UNDERSTAND - Why does it happen?       │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 4. FIX - Make minimal change to resolve   │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 5. VERIFY - Confirm fix, add test         │
└───────────────────────────────────────────┘

Step 1: Reproduce

Before asking AI for help, gather information:

Collect This Information

## Bug Report

**What I expected:**
[Expected behavior]

**What actually happened:**
[Actual behavior]

**Error message (if any):**

[Full error message and stack trace]


**Steps to reproduce:**
1. [Step 1]
2. [Step 2]
3. [Step 3]

**Environment:**
- Node/Browser version:
- OS:
- Relevant packages:

**Code involved:**
```[paste relevant code]```

**What I've already tried:**
- [Attempt 1]
- [Attempt 2]

Step 2: Isolate

Binary Search for Bugs

If you don't know where the bug is:

  1. Comment out half the code
  2. Does bug still occur?
    • Yes → Bug is in remaining code
    • No → Bug is in commented code
  3. Repeat with that half

AI Prompt for Isolation

I have a bug somewhere in this code flow:

1. Function A calls Function B
2. Function B processes data and calls Function C
3. Function C returns result

The bug manifests as [description].

Here's the code:
```[paste relevant functions]```

Help me identify which function is most likely causing the issue
and what I should check first.

Read the full file on GitHub · 336 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. 8d ago First seen · 336 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A bc987260baea

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debug-with-ai is a skill published in the GitHub repository latestaiagents/agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,660 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.