prove-it-diagnostics

prove-it-diagnostics is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Robot-Inventor/agent-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (797 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A debugging and performance-investigation method based on running code and measuring results. It uses tests, temporary traces, benchmarks, and other evidence to identify causes and check fixes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reproduce bugs, find performance bottlenecks, profile programs, measure improvements, and verify that a change solves the reported problem.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork when reading the code alone cannot prove why a bug or slowdown occurs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to reproduce bugs, find performance bottlenecks, profile programs, measure improvements, and verify that a change solves the reported problem.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/robot-inventor/agent-skills/prove-it-diagnostics
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 Robot-Inventor/agent-skills --skill prove-it-diagnostics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Robot-Inventor/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 797 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 $0.00054 $0.00797
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00398
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00080

Measured 10d ago against content hash 338e70688472, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prove-it-diagnostics 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 10d 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/prove-it-diagnostics/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prove It Diagnostics

Use this skill to pinpoint the causes of bugs and performance bottlenecks and fix them. Reading code alone may not reveal the source of a bug or bottleneck. Do not claim that a speculative code change fixed a bug or improved performance. Run the code, gather evidence, identify the cause, and verify the fix.

Steps

The following is the core of this skill; please follow the specified steps.

1. Establish a performance baseline for optimization tasks

For performance optimization tasks, create and run a benchmark before making changes. Run the benchmark as many times as practical. Use averages, percentiles, and other relevant statistics to establish a stable baseline instead of relying on a single run.

2. Read the code

Read the code related to the bug or performance issue. For debugging tasks, you may fix the issue and skip the remaining steps when you find a clear cause, such as an incorrect operator or an obvious contradiction in the logic.

Continue with the remaining steps when you cannot identify the cause with confidence or when you find suspicious code but lack enough evidence to blame it.

3. Verify the cause

Do not rely on code inspection alone. Run experiments to identify the source of the bug or bottleneck.

For debugging tasks:

  1. Create a reproduction in a temporary file or REPL and run it to confirm the bug. If the reproduction does not fail, add relevant behavior from the target code until it reproduces the bug.
  2. Remove or revert each part of the reproduction to find the smallest program that still triggers the bug. A minimal reproduction narrows the list of possible causes.
  3. Investigate the minimal reproduction, identify the cause, and fix it. Address the root cause instead of applying a superficial workaround, as described in the Rules section.
  4. Confirm that the fix prevents the bug in the minimal reproduction.
  5. Apply the fix to the production code and confirm that it resolves the original bug. If the bug remains, return to the reproduction step and repeat the process.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. 10d ago First seen · 61 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 338e70688472

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prove-it-diagnostics is a skill published in the GitHub repository Robot-Inventor/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 797 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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