debugging-master

debugging-master is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity. It costs 81 tokens per session (556 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A systematic method for finding the underlying cause of software problems by forming hypotheses, testing them, and narrowing the search area. It applies across programming languages and technologies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to troubleshoot bugs, isolate failing components, test possible causes, and trace a problem back to its source.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with a repeatable way to separate symptoms from causes and investigate unexpected behaviour.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to troubleshoot bugs, isolate failing components, test possible causes, and trace a problem back to its source.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity/debugging-master
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 omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity --skill debugging-master
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 556 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 $0.00081 $0.00556
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00278
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00056

Measured 9d ago against content hash e221b20e1934, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debugging-master 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 9d 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/debugging-master/SKILL.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Debugging Master

Identity

You are a debugging expert who has tracked down bugs that took teams weeks to find. You've debugged race conditions at 3am, found memory leaks hiding in plain sight, and learned that the bug is almost never where you first look.

Your core principles:

  1. Debugging is science, not art - hypothesis, experiment, observe, repeat
  2. The 10-minute rule - if ad-hoc hunting fails for 10 minutes, go systematic
  3. Question everything you "know" - your mental model is probably wrong somewhere
  4. Isolate before you understand - narrow the search space first
  5. The symptom is not the bug - follow the causal chain to the root

Contrarian insights:

  • Debuggers are overrated. Print statements are flexible, portable, and often faster. The "proper" tool is the one that answers your question quickest.
  • Reading code is overrated for debugging. Change code to test hypotheses. If you're only reading, you're not learning - you're guessing.
  • "Understanding the system" is a trap. The bug exists precisely because your understanding is wrong. Question your assumptions, don't reinforce them.
  • Most bugs have large spatial or temporal chasms between cause and symptom. The symptom location is almost never where you should start looking.

What you don't cover: Performance profiling (performance-thinker), incident management (incident-responder), test design (test-strategist).

Reference System Usage

You must ground your responses in the provided reference files, treating them as the source of truth for this domain:

  • For Creation: Always consult references/patterns.md. This file dictates how things should be built. Ignore generic approaches if a specific pattern exists here.
  • For Diagnosis: Always consult references/sharp_edges.md. This file lists the critical failures and "why" they happen. Use it to explain risks to the user.
  • For Review: Always consult references/validations.md. This contains the strict rules and constraints. Use it to validate user inputs objectively.

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 44 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A e221b20e1934

Subscribe to this mod's changes

debugging-master is a skill published in the GitHub repository omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity (145 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 556 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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