diagnose

diagnose is a skill for Codex from LegendApp/legend-skills. It costs 118 tokens per session (1,299 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An opt-in, evidence-first method for finding the confirmed cause of software bugs, failures, flaky behavior, or performance slowdowns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate browser, app, device, runtime, or performance problems and report the cause without automatically changing the product.
Why use it?
It avoids guessing by tracing a reported symptom through the relevant code, logs, tests, or other evidence until the cause is proven.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to investigate browser, app, device, runtime, or performance problems and report the cause without automatically changing the product.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/legendapp/legend-skills/diagnose
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 LegendApp/legend-skills --skill diagnose
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LegendApp/legend-skills

Made for: Codex.

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.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/legendapp/legend-skills/diagnose/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/legendapp/legend-skills/diagnose)
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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 118 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,299 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 17 Jul 2026
  • Snyk pass 17 Jul 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00118 $0.01299
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.00649
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00260
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00130

Measured 10d ago against content hash d588f9cdae8f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

diagnose 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/hitl-loop.template.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

diagnose/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Diagnose

Use this workflow only after the explicit opt-in described in the frontmatter. A normal bug report or debugging request does not opt in to this skill.

Find and explain the cause of a symptom with 100% operational confidence.

Start from the user's concrete anchor: file, route, error, log, screen, branch, artifact, or reproduction step. Consult relevant architecture notes, ADRs, glossaries, and test docs. Inspect code, run safe tools or tests, and analyze existing artifacts.

Explicit invocation of Diagnose constitutes approval for behavior-neutral temporary instrumentation within the requested scope. Ask separately only for risky actions, inaccessible-state reproduction, or mutations that affect product behavior or external systems.

References

Load only what applies:

Evidence Loop

  1. Locate likely causes. Inspect the code path and existing evidence around the user's anchor. Form the smallest useful set of likely areas and falsifiable candidate causes, including independent or contributing causes when applicable. Give each cause a distinguishing prediction and identify where those predictions diverge.

  2. Instrument before reproducing. Load instrumentation.md and add structured logging across the relevant boundaries, extensive enough to reconstruct the causal sequence rather than only record the visible symptom. Instrument competing causes in the same pass when practical so one reproduction can distinguish them.

    Before reproducing, define the probe contract:

    • the exact trigger and visible symptom
    • the questions this run will answer
    • each candidate cause's distinguishing prediction
    • the events, fields, and correlation IDs that test those predictions
    • how the evidence will be tied to the exact visible failure
    • the intended process, build, window, document, and runtime identity when applicable

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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. 10d ago First seen · 80 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A d588f9cdae8f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

diagnose is a skill published in the GitHub repository LegendApp/legend-skills (39 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 1,299 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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