diagnose

diagnose is a skill for Claude Code from musingfox/cc-plugins. It costs 51 tokens per session (212 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided debugging process for investigating something broken, failing, slow, or throwing an error. It can work in a separate Git worktree and hand back a branch containing a failing test rather than a fix.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a reported symptom, confirm its cause, and produce a failing test that guides the later fix.
Why use it?
It separates diagnosis from implementation, so the cause and expected failure are established before code is changed. You can also choose to inspect the problem without creating a branch.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the diagnose plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate a reported symptom, confirm its cause, and produce a failing test that guides the later fix.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add musingfox/cc-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install diagnose

Made for: Claude Code.

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

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for diagnose

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for diagnose

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 212 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 $0.00051 $0.00212
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00085
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00021

Measured 10d ago against content hash 14c2e5ad4ca0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

diagnose 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 10d 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.

diagnose/skills/diagnose/SKILL.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Diagnose

Offer the diagnosis loop, then wait. Use AskUserQuestion before any worktree exists.

If there is no observed symptom, ask for it first. Do not open a worktree against a guess.

AskUserQuestion — "Run the full diagnosis loop? It works in its own worktree and hands back a branch with a failing test; it does not apply the fix."

  • Diagnose — proceed. Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/docs/method.md and follow it. The HITL template path the method asks for is ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/hitl-loop.template.sh.
  • Just look — answer from reading only. No worktree, no branch. Say plainly that no branch was produced.
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. 10d ago Changed · +30 tokens per session 14c2e5ad4ca0
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 17 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A b87450047eb9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

diagnose is a skill published in the GitHub repository musingfox/cc-plugins (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 212 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 2026-09-11.

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