core-dumps

core-dumps is a skill for Codex from OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,696 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only guide for investigating program crashes from core files, which are saved snapshots of a crashed program's memory. It covers GDB and LLDB, tools for inspecting compiled programs, plus symbols and backtraces that show where a crash occurred.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to enable core dumps, load them, find the crashing code, inspect faulting memory access, and identify missing symbols.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose production crashes without running the program again and points out when required files or debugging information are missing.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to enable core dumps, load them, find the crashing code, inspect faulting memory access, and identify missing symbols.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/core-dumps
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 OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development --skill core-dumps
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,696 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 44
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00047 $0.01696
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00848
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00339
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00170

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5d622c3de3f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

core-dumps scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo sysctl -w kernel.core_pattern=/tmp/core-%e-%p-%t
.devin/skills/core-dumps/SKILL.md · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Core dumps

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger A program crashed and left a core file, cores need enabling on Linux or macOS, symbols are missing for a production binary, or a backtrace is needed without re-running the program.
Authority Read-only. Emits analysis and commands for the operator to run on the target; no file writes, no rollback needed. No remote mutation.
Side effect Diagnostic commands and a crash verdict in chat. Nothing is written.
Done The crashing frame, signal, and faulting access are named, or the missing prerequisite (symbols, core file, build ID) is stated.

Inputs

  1. Core file or crash record (required): a core file, a coredumpctl entry, or a /cores/core.<PID> file on macOS.
  2. Binary (required): the exact executable that crashed, ideally the unstripped build.
  3. Build ID or debug package access (optional): needed when the binary is stripped.

Procedure

  1. Enable cores on Linux.

    ulimit -c unlimited                 # this shell only
    ulimit -c                           # confirm
    cat /proc/self/limits               # per-process view
    

    Persist for all users in /etc/security/limits.conf:

    *   soft   core   unlimited
    *   hard   core   unlimited
    

    Control where cores land:

    cat /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
    sudo sysctl -w kernel.core_pattern=/tmp/core-%e-%p-%t
    

    %e is the executable name, %p the PID, %t the timestamp. If the pattern starts with |, a pipe handler such as systemd-coredump or apport owns core collection; use step 2 instead of looking for files. Done when: ulimit -c reports unlimited and the pattern names a writable path or a known pipe handler.

  2. Use coredumpctl when systemd collects cores.

    coredumpctl list                    # recorded crashes
    coredumpctl list myapp              # crashes of one executable
    coredumpctl info                    # details of the latest
    coredumpctl gdb                     # open the latest in GDB
    coredumpctl gdb 12345               # open a specific PID
    coredumpctl dump 12345 -o myapp.core   # export the core file
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 3d ago First seen · 158 lines · 47 tokens per session scan B 5d622c3de3f1

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core-dumps is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development (52 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,696 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-06.