temporal-debug

temporal-debug is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MeherBhaskar/temporal-debug-skill. It costs 77 tokens per session (2,071 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A debugging guide for problems linked to a past time, software version, deployment, or error log. It helps the agent inspect the code as it existed when the problem happened.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps investigate crashes, errors, failed deployments, and regressions tied to a commit, release tag, version, date, or timestamp.
Why use it?
Current code may include unrelated changes that hide the original cause. Looking at the earlier code reduces confusion when the bug no longer appears in the latest version.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps investigate crashes, errors, failed deployments, and regressions tied to a commit, release tag, version, date, or timestamp.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/meherbhaskar/temporal-debug-skill/temporal-debug
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.

Any agent
npx skills add MeherBhaskar/temporal-debug-skill --skill temporal-debug
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MeherBhaskar/temporal-debug-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,071 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 $0.00077 $0.02071
Opus 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00828
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00414
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00207

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ad2ac70e22c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

temporal-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 1mo 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/temporal-debug/SKILL.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Temporal Debug Skill

Goal

Help the user debug a bug by reconstructing the code state at the time the bug occurred, rather than analyzing the current HEAD. This eliminates confusion from recent unrelated changes.

When to Use

  • User mentions a bug with a time reference: "3 hours ago", "last night", "yesterday's deploy", "this morning"
  • User references a specific version: "v2.4.1", "release-2024-01", tag name
  • User shares an error log with a timestamp
  • User suspects a recent change introduced a bug but current code looks fine
  • Deployment errors - user says "deploy failed" or "production is down" with a version/timestamp reference

When NOT to Use

  • New feature development
  • Refactoring without bug context
  • Bug clearly in current code (user says "just broke after my last commit")

Workflow

1. Resolve the Target Commit

Extract temporal clues from the user's message and resolve to a commit hash:

Clue Type Git Command
Explicit commit hash Use directly
Git tag / version (e.g., v2.4.1) git rev-list -1 v2.4.1
Relative time (e.g., "3 hours ago") git log --before="3 hours ago" -1 --format="%H"
ISO date (e.g., "2024-01-15") git log --before="2024-01-15" -1 --format="%H"
"last night" / "yesterday" git log --before="yesterday 23:59" -1 --format="%H"

For deployment errors:

  • If user mentions a release version (e.g., "deploy of v2.4.1 failed"), use the tag
  • If user mentions a branch (e.g., "release/v2.4 branch"), use the branch tip
  • If user says "current production deploy", check if there's a production or main branch deployed

If multiple conflicting clues, ask the user which to use. If user gives explicit commit hash, use it directly — no resolution needed.

Store the resolved hash as TARGET_COMMIT.

2. Create Isolated Historical Workspace

Create a git worktree at the target commit. This is read-only, isolated, and doesn't touch the user's working directory.

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 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. 1mo ago First seen · 199 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A ad2ac70e22c5

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temporal-debug is a skill published in the GitHub repository MeherBhaskar/temporal-debug-skill (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 2,071 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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