debugging-and-error-recovery

debugging-and-error-recovery is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LLl0k0laD/agent-skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,986 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A step-by-step method for investigating broken tests, builds, runtime behavior, or production problems. It starts by reproducing the issue and preserving evidence before changing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to triage test failures, build errors, unexpected application behavior, log or console errors, regressions, and incidents, then verify the fix and guard against recurrence.
Why use it?
It keeps debugging focused on the root cause and prevents new work from building on an unresolved failure.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to triage test failures, build errors, unexpected application behavior, log or console errors, regressions, and incidents, then verify the fix and guard against recurrence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lll0k0lad/agent-skills/debugging-and-error-recovery
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add LLl0k0laD/agent-skills --skill debugging-and-error-recovery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LLl0k0laD/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,986 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 $0.00045 $0.01986
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00993
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00397
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00199

Measured 12d ago against content hash 97588b56aada, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debugging-and-error-recovery 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 12d 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.

skills/debugging-and-error-recovery/SKILL.md · 269 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 269 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Debugging and Error Recovery

Overview

Systematic debugging with structured triage. When something breaks, stop adding features, preserve evidence, and follow a structured process to find and fix the root cause. Guessing wastes time. The triage checklist works for test failures, build errors, runtime bugs, and production incidents.

When to Use

  • Tests fail after a code change
  • The build breaks
  • Runtime behavior doesn't match expectations
  • A bug report arrives
  • An error appears in logs or console
  • Something worked before and stopped working

The Stop-the-Line Rule

When anything unexpected happens:

1. STOP adding features or making changes
2. PRESERVE evidence (error output, logs, repro steps)
3. DIAGNOSE using the triage checklist
4. FIX the root cause
5. GUARD against recurrence
6. RESUME only after verification passes

Never push past a failing test or broken build to work on the next feature. Errors compound. A bug in Step 3 that goes unfixed makes Steps 4-10 wrong.

The Triage Checklist

Work through these steps in order. Do not skip steps.

Step 1: Reproduce

Make the failure happen reliably. If you can't reproduce it, you can't fix it with confidence.

Can you reproduce the failure?
├── YES → Proceed to Step 2
└── NO
    ├── Gather more context (logs, environment details)
    ├── Try reproducing in a minimal environment
    └── If truly non-reproducible, document conditions and monitor

For test failures:

# Run the specific failing test
npm test -- --grep "test name"

# Run with verbose output
npm test -- --verbose

# Run in isolation (rules out test pollution)
npm test -- --testPathPattern="specific-file" --runInBand

Step 2: Localize

Narrow down WHERE the failure happens:

Which layer is failing?
├── UI/Frontend     → Check console, DOM, network tab
├── API/Backend     → Check server logs, request/response
├── Database        → Check queries, schema, data integrity
├── Build tooling   → Check config, dependencies, environment
├── External service → Check connectivity, API changes, rate limits
└── Test itself     → Check if the test is correct (false negative)

Read the full file on GitHub · 269 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. 12d ago First seen · 269 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 97588b56aada

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debugging-and-error-recovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository LLl0k0laD/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,986 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.

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