rudder-destination-debugging

rudder-destination-debugging is a skill for Claude Code from rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (2,700 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A troubleshooting guide for event delivery from RudderStack, an event-collection and routing system, to an external destination.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for investigating missing events, high error rates, authorization failures, throttling, transformation filters, and warehouse synchronization failures. It requires a connected RudderStack integration.
Why use it?
It helps locate whether events are being filtered, rejected by authentication, rate-limited, lost during transformation, or stuck in retries.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the rudder-core plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for investigating missing events, high error rates, authorization failures, throttling, transformation filters, and warehouse synchronization failures. It requires a connected RudderStack integration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills/rudder-destination-debugging
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 rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills --skill rudder-destination-debugging
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rudder-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,700 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

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 →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 264
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
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 $0.00048 $0.02700
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01350
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00540
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00270

Measured 11d ago against content hash c5b1f9159da6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rudder-destination-debugging 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 11d 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.

plugins/rudder-core/skills/rudder-destination-debugging/SKILL.md · 279 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 279 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Destination Debugging

This skill teaches how to diagnose and fix event delivery failures between RudderStack and a destination — covering dropped events, auth errors, rate limiting, transformation filters, and warehouse sync failures.

Requires RudderStack MCP connected. See rudder-mcp-setup if not yet configured.

Event Delivery Pipeline

Events travel through four stages before reaching a destination. Each stage can fail independently:

SOURCE SDK
    │  events sent
    ▼
PROCESSOR TRANSFORM
    │  maps event to destination format
    │  applies user transformations
    │  tracking-plan governance (block/log/forward)
    ▼
ROUTER / BATCH
    │  groups events for efficient delivery
    │  respects destination rate limits
    ▼
DATA DELIVERY
    │  sends HTTP request to destination API
    │  parses response code
    ├── 2xx ──► delivered ✓
    ├── 298 ──► filtered (transformation dropped it)
    ├── 299 ──► suppressed (tracking-plan governance)
    ├── 429 ──► throttled → retry with backoff
    ├── 4xx ──► aborted (permanent failure, no retry)
    └── 5xx ──► retryable → auto-retry

Debugging Workflow

                    ┌─────────────────────┐
                    │ Events not at dest? │
                    └──────────┬──────────┘
                               │
              ┌────────────────┼──────────────────┐
              ▼                ▼                  ▼
    Source sending?    Metrics show        Errors present?
    (check source      failures?
     event metrics)    (check dest
                        event metrics)
              │                │                  │
              ▼                ▼                  ▼
    No events at    Events sent but      Get error messages
    source → SDK    not delivered →      → see error
    or connection   check error log      classification
    issue                                below

Step 1 — Confirm events leave the source

Ask Claude:

"Show me event metrics for source <source-name> over the last hour"

Read the full file on GitHub · 279 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 279 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A c5b1f9159da6

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rudder-destination-debugging is a skill published in the GitHub repository rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills (18 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 2,700 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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