debugging-difficult-bugs

debugging-difficult-bugs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mastra-ai/mastra. It costs 97 tokens per session (1,594 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A debugging method for medium or difficult software bugs, including failures involving runtime state, timing, saved data, streaming, concurrency, interfaces, or outside services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before extended test-driven development, or TDD, which means writing tests in small cycles while building code, when a bug depends on real runtime conditions.
Why use it?
A passing test may not reveal what actually fails while the program is running or during a manual reproduction.

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/mastra-ai/mastra/debugging-difficult-bugs
Any agent
npx skills add mastra-ai/mastra --skill debugging-difficult-bugs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,594 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00097 $0.01594
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00797
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00319
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00159

Measured 6d ago against content hash 72355b16a452, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debugging-difficult-bugs 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.

.claude/skills/debugging-difficult-bugs/SKILL.md · 180 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 180 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 72355b16a452

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debugging-difficult-bugs is a skill published in the GitHub repository mastra-ai/mastra (27,707 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 1,594 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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