windbg-user-ttd-reverse-debugging-triage

windbg-user-ttd-reverse-debugging-triage is a skill for Claude Code from microsoft/win-dev-skills. It costs 53 tokens per session (959 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A WinDbg workflow for investigating user-mode programs from a Time Travel Debugging recording. Such a recording lets you replay a program's earlier actions, unlike a normal crash dump, which is only a snapshot.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to open and inspect a .run recording for an application, service, or user-mode driver host, then test and report likely causes using replay evidence.
Why use it?
It helps find earlier calls, memory writes, or object lifetimes that led to a failure. It also makes clear when the recording, symbols, or captured processes are insufficient for a conclusion.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the windbg plugin — 11 skills, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to open and inspect a .run recording for an application, service, or user-mode driver host, then test and report likely causes using replay evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/win-dev-skills/windbg-user-ttd-reverse-debugging-triage
About the project

microsoft/win-dev-skills is a collection of AI-agent instructions and tools for creating native Windows applications with WinUI 3 and the Windows App SDK. Windows developers use it to guide agents through app development tasks from scaffolding and design to testing, packaging, and release. The catalogue entries are its agents, skills, and plugin components.

microsoft/win-dev-skills · 472 stars · on GitHub

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 microsoft/win-dev-skills --skill windbg-user-ttd-reverse-debugging-triage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/win-dev-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install windbg, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 2 agents.

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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 959 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 $0.00053 $0.00959
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00384
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00192
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00096

Measured 8d ago against content hash 8211992ec082, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

windbg-user-ttd-reverse-debugging-triage 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 8d 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/windbg/skills/windbg-user-ttd-reverse-debugging-triage/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TTD Reverse Debugging Triage

Load windbg-diagnostic-method first if it is not already loaded in this conversation, and apply it throughout for evidence ranking, hypothesis testing, confidence calibration, independent review, and report validation. This skill adds the bug-family-specific commands and evidence requirements.

Requirements and scope

Time Travel Debugging records a user-mode process for replay, including an authorized application, service, or user-mode driver host process. A dump alone contains no execution timeline. Confirm a valid recording and matching module symbols before attempting timeline queries. It does not record kernel execution or automatically include another process's server-side activity.

Recording can change timing, require substantial storage, and capture sensitive memory. Obtain authorization before capture. Check the installed recorder's help for supported target, architecture, and options. WinDbg's Launch executable (advanced) / Record with Time Travel Debugging flow can record a named test application without guessing a recorder command.

Workflow

1. Open and index the recording

Open the recorded .run file in WinDbg and load public Windows symbols and matching PDBs for your own binaries.

!tt.index
dx @$cursession.TTD

Confirm the timeline range. Indexing and data-model availability depend on WinDbg/TTD versions; consult the installed help if the command is unavailable.

2. Ask a bounded history question

dx @$cursession.TTD.Calls("MyModule!MyFunction")
dx @$cursession.TTD.Memory(<start-address>, <end-address>, "w")

Query the known function or exact memory range, then inspect relevant results and their timeline positions. An empty result can mean unmatched symbols, uninstrumented execution, or an out-of-range query, not proof of absence.

Use the call query to find allocation/free or module lifetime transitions and the memory query to locate candidate writes. Account for allocator reuse: the same virtual address may represent different objects over the recording.

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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. 8d ago First seen · 106 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 8211992ec082

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windbg-user-ttd-reverse-debugging-triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/win-dev-skills (472 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 959 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-10-08.

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