bug-context

The starting step for working on a PHP bug from a GitHub issue. It fetches the issue and linked changes, summarizes the context, and creates a SPEC.md work record with later bug-fix phases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when beginning work on a PHP GitHub issue to gather its details, record the current source revision and branch, and prepare the bug-fix workflow.
Why use it?
It turns an issue report into a structured task tied to a specific PHP source checkout and code version. This gives reproduction, analysis, implementation, and verification a shared starting point.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pronskiy/php-src-developer/bug-context
Any agent
npx skills add pronskiy/php-src-developer --skill bug-context
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pronskiy/php-src-developer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 153 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,417 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00153 $0.02417
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.01208
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00483
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00242

Measured yesterday against content hash 93ca4548720c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bug-context 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/php-core-developer/skills/bug-context/SKILL.md · 197 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

bug-context

Entry point of the php-src bug-fix flow. Pulls the GitHub issue, synthesises it, and writes the Context phase of SPEC.md.

Inputs

  1. Issue identifier (required) — a GitHub issue number (12345), GH-12345, or full URL (https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/12345).
  2. PHP_SRC_DIR (required) — resolved per _shared/php-src-detection.md (auto-detect cwd inside checkout, or honour the env var override). Refuse if neither path resolves.
  3. gh CLI (required) — must be authenticated (gh auth status). If unauthenticated, stop and tell the user.

What it produces

SPEC.md in the task directory (resolved per _shared/task-dir.md; default $PHP_SRC_DIR/.claude/php-core-dev/gh-<N>/SPEC.md) with:

  • Frontmatter: type: bug, linked: set to the GH issue URL, php_src_ref: set to the current git rev-parse HEAD of $PHP_SRC_DIR, target_branch: resolved per _shared/branch-detection.md (see step 6 below), created: today's date, status: in-progress.
  • ## Context section with a synthesised problem statement.
  • Phase skeletons (Reproduction, Analysis & Plan, Implementation, Verification) — all status: todo, with their guardrails pre-declared.
  • Empty ## Open Questions.
  • A first Progress Log entry.

Workflow

1. Resolve PHP_SRC_DIR and validate environment

Resolve PHP_SRC_DIR using the algorithm in _shared/php-src-detection.md (env-var override or walk-up from $PWD). If neither path resolves, refuse with the detection doc's error message — do not guess.

gh auth status >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "gh CLI not authenticated. Run: gh auth login"; exit 1; }

2. Resolve issue identifier

Accept any of:

  • 12345
  • GH-12345
  • https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/12345
  • https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>/issues/12345 (rare — non-php/php-src forks)

Default repo is php/php-src when only a number is given.

3. Fetch issue data

gh issue view <N> --repo php/php-src --json number,title,body,labels,state,url,comments,createdAt,author

Read the full file on GitHub · 197 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. yesterday First seen · 197 lines · 153 tokens per session scan A 93ca4548720c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bug-context is a skill published in the GitHub repository pronskiy/php-src-developer (8 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 153 tokens to every session and 2,417 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-31.

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