debug

debug is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MCB-SMART-BOY/nixos-config. It costs 42 tokens per session (746 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for diagnosing Nix configuration, build, evaluation, runtime, greetd, and systemd failures. Nix is a system for reproducible software builds and machine configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate undefined variables, missing attributes, undeclared options, type errors, infinite recursion, failed builds, and greetd or systemd problems.
Why use it?
It organizes common error messages into likely causes and gives commands for inspecting checks, traces, logs, and services.

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/mcb-smart-boy/nixos-config/debug
Any agent
npx skills add MCB-SMART-BOY/nixos-config --skill debug
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MCB-SMART-BOY/nixos-config

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 746 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 $0.00042 $0.00746
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00373
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00075

Measured 4d ago against content hash d5a15f680636, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debug 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.

.claude/skills/debug/SKILL.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

Debug

错误分类

特征 类型 查什么
error: undefined variable 未定义变量 拼写、with 污染
error: attribute 'xxx' missing 属性缺失 nixpkgs API 变更、包名错误
error: The option 'xxx' is used but not defined 选项未声明 modules/options.nix 声明
error: infinite recursion 无限递归 自引用配置
error: value is X while a Y was expected 类型不匹配 选项类型声明
error: A definition for option 'xxx' is not of type '...' 选项类型错误 检查赋值类型

诊断流程

nix flake check 2>&1                              # eval 阶段
nixos-rebuild build --flake /etc/nixos#<machine> 2>&1 | tee build.log  # 构建阶段
nix log /nix/store/<hash>-<name>.drv               # 构建日志
nix flake check --show-trace 2>&1 | head -100       # 完整 trace

常见陷阱

症状 根因 修复
No such file or directory (新 .nix 文件) git add git add <文件>
mcb.xxx is used but not defined 在功能模块中声明选项 移到 modules/options.nix
undefined variable with lib; 污染 显式 lib.xxx
列表被覆盖 直接赋值 = [pkg] lib.mkAfter

greetd 问题

journalctl -u greetd -b --no-pager | tail -80    # 查看 greetd 日志
日志特征 原因 修复
greeter 不断重启 greeter 崩溃 → greetd restart loop 检查 greeter 命令是否正确;agreety 是最可靠的选项
unrecognized option '-s' / '-d' / '-m' cage >=0.2 废弃旧参数 清空 cageArgs,移除 greetd command 中的对应参数
Failed to initialize GTK / 白屏 Mesa 回归(regreet 等图形 greeter) 切换到 agreety(无 GTK/Mesa 依赖),或加 GSK_RENDERER=ngl
cage 找不到 GPU/DRM 内核模块未加载 lsmod | grep i915;检查 hardware-gpu.nix

运行时

systemctl --failed                # 失败服务
journalctl -u <service> -b        # 服务日志
loginctl list-sessions            # 桌面会话
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 · 57 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A d5a15f680636

Subscribe to this mod's changes

debug is a skill published in the GitHub repository MCB-SMART-BOY/nixos-config (10 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 746 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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