bug-reproduction

bug-reproduction is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from petrkindlmann/qa-skills. It costs 252 tokens per session (5,741 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for turning an unclear bug report into a small, repeatable example and a test that fails because of the bug. A regression test is a check that prevents the same problem from returning later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify steps, reduce a complicated reproduction, make inconsistent failures repeatable, compare changes with git bisect, and record evidence in the ticket.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork when a bug is hard to reproduce or the report lacks important details. It can also help identify which code change introduced the problem and verify that a fix really works.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to clarify steps, reduce a complicated reproduction, make inconsistent failures repeatable, compare changes with git bisect, and record evidence in the ticket.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/petrkindlmann/qa-skills/bug-reproduction
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 petrkindlmann/qa-skills --skill bug-reproduction
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/petrkindlmann/qa-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 252 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,741 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 13 Jun 2026
  • Snyk pass 13 Jun 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00252 $0.05741
Opus 5 $0.00126 $0.02870
Sonnet 5 $0.00050 $0.01148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00025 $0.00574

Measured 13d ago against content hash 617d59812df6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bug-reproduction 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 13d 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/bug-reproduction/SKILL.md · 411 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 411 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Quick Route

You have… Go to
A thin report and no idea how to trigger it Step 1: Extract the implicit repro
A messy 14-step repro to clean up Step 2: The reproduce-minimize-isolate-capture loop
"Worked last month, broken now" Step 3: Bisect to the introducing commit
A repro that passes/fails inconsistently Step 4: Make the repro deterministic
A clean repro, no fix yet Step 5: Write the failing regression test (red) first
"The dev says it's fixed, test is green" Step 6: Verify the fix actually fixes it
"It won't reproduce for me but does for the user" Step 7: Flaky vs environment vs not-reproducible
Repro + test done Step 8: Write the evidence back into the ticket

Discovery Questions

First, check .agents/qa-project-context.md in the project root — it carries the tech stack, test runner, known-flaky areas, and environment matrix. Pass over any question it already answers. If it is missing, suggest creating one with the qa-project-context skill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 411 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 13d ago First seen · 411 lines · 252 tokens per session scan A 617d59812df6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bug-reproduction is a skill published in the GitHub repository petrkindlmann/qa-skills (120 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 252 tokens to every session and 5,741 once invoked, about $0.0013 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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