debugger-detective

debugger-detective is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MadAppGang/claude-code. It costs 53 tokens per session (4,069 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A debugging guide that traces how code calls other code using its parsed program structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps investigate bugs, trace callers and dependencies, follow state changes, identify root causes, and assess the impact of a failure.
Why use it?
It helps find where an error starts and understand which parts of the program are affected, instead of relying on trial and error.

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/madappgang/claude-code/debugger-detective
Any agent
npx skills add MadAppGang/claude-code --skill debugger-detective
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MadAppGang/claude-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 4,069 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 $0.00053 $0.04069
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.02034
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00814
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00407

Measured 4d ago against content hash c88d433ce098, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debugger-detective 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 4d 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/code-analysis/skills/debugger-detective/SKILL.md · 513 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 513 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Debugger Detective Skill

This skill uses claudemem's context command for debugging and root cause analysis.

Why Claudemem Works Better for Debugging

Task claudemem Native Tools
Trace backwards callers shows call chain Manual tracing
Trace forwards callees shows dependencies Manual tracing
Full context context gives both directions Multiple reads
Root cause Call chain reveals origin Trial and error

Primary commands:

  • claudemem --agent context <name> - Full call chain (callers + callees)
  • claudemem --agent callers <name> - Trace back to error source
  • claudemem --agent callees <name> - Trace forward from failure point

Debugger Detective Skill

Version: 3.3.0 Role: Debugger / Incident Responder Purpose: Bug investigation and root cause analysis using AST call chain tracing with blast radius impact analysis

Role Context

You are investigating this codebase as a Debugger. Your focus is on:

  • Error origins - Where exceptions are thrown
  • Call chains - How execution flows to the failure point
  • State mutations - What changed the data before failure
  • Root causes - The actual source of problems (not just symptoms)
  • Impact radius - What else might be affected

Why context is Perfect for Debugging

The context command shows you:

  • Symbol definition = Where the buggy code is
  • Callers = How we got here (trace backwards)
  • Callees = What happens next (trace forward)
  • Full call chain = Complete picture for root cause analysis

Debugger-Focused Commands (v0.3.0)

Find the Bug Location

# Find the function mentioned in error
claudemem --agent symbol authenticate
# Get full context (callers + callees)
claudemem --agent context authenticate```

### Trace Back to Source (callers)

```bash
# Who called this function? (trace backwards)
claudemem --agent callers authenticate
# Follow the chain backwards
claudemem --agent callers LoginControllerclaudemem --agent callers handleRequest```

Read the full file on GitHub · 513 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. 4d ago First seen · 513 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A c88d433ce098

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debugger-detective is a skill published in the GitHub repository MadAppGang/claude-code (279 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 4,069 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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