what-broke

what-broke is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ohad6k/VibeRaven. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,016 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A troubleshooting skill for finding the software version that introduced a breakage by comparing Git history, releases, and related provider configuration. Git is a system for tracking code versions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an application used to work and you need to identify what changed before editing a fix.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with evidence about the change that caused the problem and the external systems involved.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the viberaven plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when an application used to work and you need to identify what changed before editing a fix.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ohad6k/viberaven/what-broke
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 ohad6k/VibeRaven --skill what-broke
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ohad6k/VibeRaven

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install viberaven, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 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 what-broke

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 what-broke

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,016 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 $0.00056 $0.01016
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00508
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00203
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00102

Measured 12d ago against content hash ba77610a1779, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

what-broke 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 12d 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.

agent-skills/what-broke/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

What Broke

Use this skill when the app worked before and the agent is about to patch blind. Find the version that changed behavior, recover the version/release context, explain what broke, and connect the code diff to provider reality: database, storage, deployment, and external runtime behavior.

First Pass

  1. Inspect dirty work first: git status --short. Do not reset, checkout, or overwrite user changes.
  2. Identify the comparison range:
    • Prefer explicit known-good and known-bad versions from the user.
    • Otherwise infer from git tag --sort=-creatordate, git log --oneline --decorate -n 40, package versions, release branches, and CHANGELOG entries.
  3. Map version names to concrete git refs: tags, branch names, release commits, package versions, or changelog headings.
  4. Build a narrow diff before editing: git diff <good>..<bad> --stat, then git diff <good>..<bad> --name-only, then focused git diff <good>..<bad> -- <path>.
  5. Read provider-adjacent files touched in the range: migrations, schema files, storage policies, deployment config, provider SDK setup, seed data, and runtime boundary files. Add identity, billing, or event-delivery files only when the diff or user pain points there.

Evidence Packet

Before proposing code changes, produce a short packet:

  • Range: good ref, bad/current ref, confidence, and why that range was chosen.
  • Version name: semantic version, release name, tag, changelog heading, or "unknown".
  • Changed surface: the files or modules that changed, grouped by app code, database, storage, deployment, provider SDK/setup, and external runtime behavior.
  • Provider context: what provider-dependent behavior may have changed. Say when dashboard or runtime state is not verifiable from the repo.
  • What broke path: the smallest chain from version change to observed breakage.
  • Missing evidence: anything needed from logs, provider dashboards, release notes, or the user.

Smart Diff Workflow

Use the cheapest command that answers the next question:

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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. 12d ago First seen · 84 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A ba77610a1779

Subscribe to this mod's changes

what-broke is a skill published in the GitHub repository ohad6k/VibeRaven (38 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,016 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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