debugging

A troubleshooting guide for finding the causes of iOS crashes, SwiftUI display errors, concurrency violations, and other unexpected app behaviour. It explains how to use Apple's Xcode tools and, when available, LLDB, a debugger for inspecting a running program.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect crash logs, build and test an iOS project, investigate SwiftUI rendering problems, capture simulator information, and trace runtime issues.
Why use it?
It gives a structured way to investigate failures instead of guessing from symptoms. It also helps choose the available build, test, simulator, logging, and debugging tools for the problem.

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/moasq/ios-dev-agent/debugging
Any agent
npx skills add moasq/ios-dev-agent --skill debugging
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/moasq/ios-dev-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,243 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 $0.00049 $0.02243
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01122
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00449
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00224

Measured yesterday against content hash 1d8821d1db77, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debugging 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 yesterday.

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.

.agents/skills/debugging/SKILL.md · 188 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

iOS Debugging & Crash Investigation

Use this guide when diagnosing runtime crashes, render errors, or unexpected behavior.

MCP Tool Selection — Check What's Available

At the start of a debugging session, check which MCP servers are loaded. Use ToolSearch to probe:

ToolSearch("XcodeBuildMCP")   → if found: full LLDB + simulator + build
ToolSearch("mcp__xcode__")    → if found: build + preview + test (no LLDB)

Priority order:

  1. Apple Xcode MCP (mcp__xcode__*) — use for build, preview, test, issues, build log
  2. XcodeBuildMCP (mcp__XcodeBuildMCP__*) — use ONLY for what Apple Xcode MCP cannot do: LLDB debugging, simulator log capture, screenshots, UI snapshots, video recording

What Apple Xcode MCP handles (prefer these when available):

Capability Tool
Build mcp__xcode__BuildProject
Preview mcp__xcode__RenderPreview
Run tests mcp__xcode__RunSomeTests / RunAllTests
Navigator issues mcp__xcode__XcodeListNavigatorIssues
Build log mcp__xcode__GetBuildLog
Read files mcp__xcode__XcodeRead
Search code mcp__xcode__XcodeGrep
Find files mcp__xcode__XcodeGlob
Code diagnostics mcp__xcode__XcodeRefreshCodeIssuesInFile
Execute snippet mcp__xcode__ExecuteSnippet

What ONLY XcodeBuildMCP can do (fallback to these):

Capability Tool
LLDB attach mcp__XcodeBuildMCP__debugging__attach
Backtrace mcp__XcodeBuildMCP__debugging__stack
Frame variables mcp__XcodeBuildMCP__debugging__variables
Run LLDB command mcp__XcodeBuildMCP__debugging__lldb_command
Add breakpoint mcp__XcodeBuildMCP__debugging__add_breakpoint
Remove breakpoint mcp__XcodeBuildMCP__debugging__remove_breakpoint
Continue execution mcp__XcodeBuildMCP__debugging__continue
Detach debugger mcp__XcodeBuildMCP__debugging__detach
Simulator log capture mcp__XcodeBuildMCP__simulator__start_simulator_log_capture / stop_simulator_log_capture
Launch with logs mcp__XcodeBuildMCP__simulator__launch_app_with_logs
Screenshot mcp__XcodeBuildMCP__simulator__screenshot
UI hierarchy snapshot mcp__XcodeBuildMCP__simulator__snapshot_ui
Record video mcp__XcodeBuildMCP__simulator__record_video
Build & run (sim) mcp__XcodeBuildMCP__simulator__build_and_run

Read the full file on GitHub · 188 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. yesterday First seen · 188 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 1d8821d1db77

Subscribe to this mod's changes

debugging is a skill published in the GitHub repository moasq/ios-dev-agent (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 2,243 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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