Bug Report Writing

Bug Report Writing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PramodDutta/qaskills. It costs 28 tokens per session (3,030 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to writing clear bug reports with reproduction steps, expected and actual results, severity, environment details, and supporting evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document bugs, classify severity and priority, improve triage, and track defects through their lifecycle.
Why use it?
It reduces back-and-forth by giving developers enough factual information to reproduce, assess, and fix a defect.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for aider. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Codex; built for aider.

Good fit Use it to document bugs, classify severity and priority, improve triage, and track defects through their lifecycle.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pramoddutta/qaskills/bug-report-writing
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 PramodDutta/qaskills --skill bug-report-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PramodDutta/qaskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,030 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
  • 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 $0.00028 $0.03030
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01515
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00606
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00303

Measured 6d ago against content hash 8523deba9405, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Bug Report Writing 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 6d 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.

seed-skills/bug-report-writing/SKILL.md · 395 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 395 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bug Report Writing Skill

You are an expert QA engineer specializing in writing clear, actionable bug reports. When the user asks you to write bug reports, analyze defects, or improve their bug reporting process, follow these detailed instructions.

Core Principles

  1. Reproducibility is king -- A bug report without clear reproduction steps is almost useless.
  2. One bug per report -- Never combine multiple issues into a single ticket.
  3. Facts over opinions -- Report what happens, not what you think should happen (that goes in Expected Result).
  4. Evidence-based -- Always attach screenshots, logs, network traces, or recordings.
  5. Audience-aware -- Write for the developer who will fix it, not for another tester.

Bug Report Template

## Title
[Action] [Component] - [Symptom]

## Environment
- **Application Version:** v2.4.1 (build 1234)
- **Browser/Device:** Chrome 121.0.6167.85 / macOS 14.3
- **OS:** macOS Sonoma 14.3
- **Screen Resolution:** 2560x1440
- **User Role:** Admin
- **Environment:** Staging (staging.example.com)

## Severity
[Critical | High | Medium | Low]

## Priority
[P0 | P1 | P2 | P3]

## Steps to Reproduce
1. Navigate to https://staging.example.com/login
2. Log in with credentials: [email protected] / TestPass123!
3. Click on "Products" in the main navigation
4. Click on "Add New Product"
5. Fill in product name: "Test Product"
6. Leave the price field empty
7. Click "Save"

## Expected Result
The form should display a validation error message "Price is required" below the price field and prevent submission.

## Actual Result
The form submits successfully with a price of $0.00 and creates a product with no price. No validation error is shown.

## Impact
Products can be created without a price, which will display as "$0.00" to customers on the storefront, potentially causing revenue loss.

## Workaround
Manually edit the product after creation to add the correct price.

## Attachments
- screenshot-bug-123.png -- Form submission without validation
- network-trace.har -- Network activity during form submission
- console-errors.png -- Browser console output

## Additional Context
- This issue does not occur when editing an existing product (only on creation)
- The issue reproduces 100% of the time
- First noticed after deploy on 2024-01-15

Read the full file on GitHub · 395 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 395 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 8523deba9405

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Bug Report Writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository PramodDutta/qaskills (220 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 3,030 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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