reproduce-bug

reproduce-bug is a skill for Claude Code from marcusrbrown/systematic. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,809 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for reproducing and investigating a bug reported in a GitHub issue, a page where projects track problems and planned changes. It works across programming languages and frameworks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when given a GitHub issue number or link and asked to reproduce or investigate the bug. It fetches the report and examines the codebase using testable explanations.
Why use it?
It turns an issue report into specific symptoms, expected behavior, reproduction steps, and environment details before code is changed. This reduces guesswork when finding the cause.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex; mentions OpenCode.

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/marcusrbrown/systematic/reproduce-bug
Any agent
npx skills add marcusrbrown/systematic --skill reproduce-bug
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marcusrbrown/systematic

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

agentmods badge for reproduce-bug

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/marcusrbrown/systematic/reproduce-bug.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/marcusrbrown/systematic/reproduce-bug)
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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,809 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 5.1 $0.00039 $0.01809
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00905
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00362
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00181

Measured 6d ago against content hash 8dd8887071ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reproduce-bug 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 6d 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/reproduce-bug/SKILL.md · 196 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 196 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reproduce Bug

A framework-agnostic, hypothesis-driven workflow for reproducing and investigating bugs from issue reports. Works across any language, framework, or project type.

Phase 1: Understand the Issue

Fetch and analyze the bug report to extract structured information before touching the codebase.

Fetch the issue

If no issue number or URL was provided as an argument, ask the user for one before proceeding (using the platform's question tool -- e.g., question in OpenCode, request_user_input in Codex, ask_user in Gemini; in Pi, use the blocking-question extension if available, otherwise present numbered options in chat and wait -- or present a prompt and wait for a reply).

gh issue view $ARGUMENTS --json title,body,comments,labels,assignees

If the argument is a URL rather than a number, extract the issue number or pass the URL directly to gh.

Extract key details

Read the issue and comments, then identify:

  • Reported symptoms -- what the user observed (error message, wrong output, visual glitch, crash)
  • Expected behavior -- what should have happened instead
  • Reproduction steps -- any steps the reporter provided
  • Environment clues -- browser, OS, version, user role, data conditions
  • Frequency -- always reproducible, intermittent, or one-time

If the issue lacks reproduction steps or is ambiguous, note what is missing -- this shapes the investigation strategy.

Phase 2: Hypothesize

Before running anything, form theories about the root cause. This focuses the investigation and prevents aimless exploration.

Search for relevant code

Use the native content-search tool (e.g., Grep in OpenCode) to find code paths related to the reported symptoms. Search for:

  • Error messages or strings mentioned in the issue
  • Feature names, route paths, or UI labels described in the report
  • Related model/service/controller names

Form hypotheses

Based on the issue details and code search results, write down 2-3 plausible hypotheses. Each should identify:

Read the full file on GitHub · 196 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. 6d ago First seen · 196 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 8dd8887071ee

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reproduce-bug is a skill published in the GitHub repository marcusrbrown/systematic (24 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,809 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 2026-08-30.