stack-trace-decoder

stack-trace-decoder is a skill for Claude Code from latestaiagents/agent-skills. It costs 53 tokens per session (2,309 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for reading stack traces, which are error reports showing where a program failed and which functions led to that failure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to interpret JavaScript, Node.js, and Python traces, inspect file and line locations, compare failures, and explain crashes to teammates.
Why use it?
It helps turn a long or unfamiliar error trace into the likely failure point and the steps that caused 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 interpret JavaScript, Node.js, and Python traces, inspect file and line locations, compare failures, and explain crashes to teammates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/latestaiagents/agent-skills/stack-trace-decoder
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 stack-trace-decoder
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 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,309 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 $0.00053 $0.02309
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00924
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00462
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00231

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 25f313404510, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stack-trace-decoder 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 1mo 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/debug/stack-trace-decoder/SKILL.md · 344 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 344 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Stack Trace Decoder

Parse, understand, and extract actionable insights from stack traces.

When to Use

  • Understanding where an error originated
  • Decoding minified/obfuscated traces
  • Identifying the call chain leading to failure
  • Comparing stack traces across incidents
  • Explaining traces to team members

Stack Trace Anatomy

JavaScript/Node.js

Error: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'map')
    at processItems (/app/src/services/processor.js:45:12)
    at async handleRequest (/app/src/handlers/api.js:23:5)
    at async Router.handle (/app/node_modules/express/router.js:156:3)
    at async Layer.handle_request (/app/node_modules/express/layer.js:95:5)

Components:

Error: [Error Type]: [Error Message]
    at [Function Name] ([File Path]:[Line]:[Column])
    │        │                 │        │      │
    │        │                 │        │      └─ Column number
    │        │                 │        └─ Line number
    │        │                 └─ File path
    │        └─ Function where error occurred
    └─ "at" indicates stack frame

Python

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/app/main.py", line 45, in process_data
    result = transform(data['items'])
  File "/app/utils.py", line 23, in transform
    return [item.upper() for item in items]
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable

Note: Python traces read bottom-to-top (error at bottom).

Java

java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke method on null object
    at com.example.service.UserService.getProfile(UserService.java:89)
    at com.example.controller.UserController.showProfile(UserController.java:45)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.service(FrameworkServlet.java:897)
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Connection refused
    at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:2181)
    ... 15 more

Note: Java traces can have "Caused by" chains showing root cause.

Read the full file on GitHub · 344 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. 1mo ago First seen · 344 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 25f313404510

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stack-trace-decoder is a skill published in the GitHub repository latestaiagents/agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,309 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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