debugging-strategies

debugging-strategies is a skill for Claude Code from sangrokjung/claude-forge. It costs 43 tokens per session (3,022 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of debugging-strategies, MIT.

A guide to systematic debugging, the process of finding the underlying cause of incorrect or unexpected software behavior. It covers reproducing issues, forming hypotheses, profiling performance, and analyzing traces or crash data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate failures, performance issues, crashes, memory leaks, and unfamiliar codebases, including by reproducing and narrowing down the problem.
Why use it?
It replaces trial-and-error fixes with a repeatable way to isolate problems. This is useful for bugs, slow applications, memory leaks, production incidents, and distributed systems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the claude-forge plugin — 33 skills, 39 commands, 17 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate failures, performance issues, crashes, memory leaks, and unfamiliar codebases, including by reproducing and narrowing down the problem.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sangrokjung/claude-forge/debugging-strategies
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 sangrokjung/claude-forge --skill debugging-strategies
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sangrokjung/claude-forge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-forge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 39 commands, 17 agents.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,022 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 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00043 $0.03022
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01511
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00604
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00302

Measured 5d ago against content hash 895534dc870b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debugging-strategies 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 5d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to debugging-strategies — 9 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/debugging-strategies/SKILL.md · 537 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 537 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Debugging Strategies

Transform debugging from frustrating guesswork into systematic problem-solving with proven strategies, powerful tools, and methodical approaches.

When to Use This Skill

  • Tracking down elusive bugs
  • Investigating performance issues
  • Understanding unfamiliar codebases
  • Debugging production issues
  • Analyzing crash dumps and stack traces
  • Profiling application performance
  • Investigating memory leaks
  • Debugging distributed systems

Core Principles

1. The Scientific Method

1. Observe: What's the actual behavior? 2. Hypothesize: What could be causing it? 3. Experiment: Test your hypothesis 4. Analyze: Did it prove/disprove your theory? 5. Repeat: Until you find the root cause

2. Debugging Mindset

Don't Assume:

  • "It can't be X" - Yes it can
  • "I didn't change Y" - Check anyway
  • "It works on my machine" - Find out why

Do:

  • Reproduce consistently
  • Isolate the problem
  • Keep detailed notes
  • Question everything
  • Take breaks when stuck

3. Rubber Duck Debugging

Explain your code and problem out loud (to a rubber duck, colleague, or yourself). Often reveals the issue.

Systematic Debugging Process

Phase 1: Reproduce

## Reproduction Checklist

1. **Can you reproduce it?**
   - Always? Sometimes? Randomly?
   - Specific conditions needed?
   - Can others reproduce it?

2. **Create minimal reproduction**
   - Simplify to smallest example
   - Remove unrelated code
   - Isolate the problem

3. **Document steps**
   - Write down exact steps
   - Note environment details
   - Capture error messages

Phase 2: Gather Information

## Information Collection

1. **Error Messages**
   - Full stack trace
   - Error codes
   - Console/log output

2. **Environment**
   - OS version
   - Language/runtime version
   - Dependencies versions
   - Environment variables

3. **Recent Changes**
   - Git history
   - Deployment timeline
   - Configuration changes

4. **Scope**
   - Affects all users or specific ones?
   - All browsers or specific ones?
   - Production only or also dev?

Read the full file on GitHub · 537 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. 5d ago First seen · 537 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 895534dc870b

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debugging-strategies is a skill published in the GitHub repository sangrokjung/claude-forge (825 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 3,022 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to debugging-strategies, differing in 9 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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