debugging-mutations

A set of tools for checking what changed in a ServiceNow instance after an action and investigating its logs and execution history.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for inspecting record changes, platform logs, user context, scripts, flows, and inbound or outbound HTTP activity.
Why use it?
It helps explain whether a change happened, why it happened, or why an operation failed.

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/serac-labs/serac/debugging-mutations
Any agent
npx skills add serac-labs/serac --skill debugging-mutations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/serac-labs/serac

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,333 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 $0.00041 $0.01333
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00666
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00267
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00133

Measured 3d ago against content hash 005323c6265c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debugging-mutations 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 3d 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.

packages/skills/debugging-mutations/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Debugging & Mutation Inspection

When you've executed a tool against a ServiceNow instance and need to verify what actually happened — or diagnose why something didn't — these tools answer "what really changed and why". Use them after the fact, never as a substitute for picking the right tool in the first place.

Available debugging tools

Tool Purpose
snow_inspect_mutations Inspect record changes (INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE) since a timestamp via sys_audit
snow_get_logs Query platform logs with a time filter. Pass log_table to switch source: syslog (default), syslog_app_scope (scoped-app log), syslog_transaction (HTTP transactions), sys_script_execution_history (background-script traces)
snow_session_context Dump the authenticated user, roles, current update set, domain. Use before ACL-sensitive debugging — "is this failing because I lack a role?"
snow_get_script_output Output of previously executed scripts
snow_trace_execution Server-side script execution tracing
snow_get_flow_execution_logs Flow Designer execution history
snow_get_inbound_http_logs Inbound REST API call logs
snow_get_outbound_http_logs Outbound REST API call logs
snow_audit_trail_analysis Audit trail analysis with anomaly detection
snow_manage_flow (with verify=true) Verify a Flow Designer mutation immediately after running it

Self-debugging workflows

Table API / REST changes (captured by sys_audit)

  1. Note the current timestamp before the action — or use a relative window like "30s"
  2. Execute the tool you want to verify
  3. Call snow_inspect_mutations with since=<timestamp> or since="30s"
  4. Review which records were INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE, which fields changed, old → new values
  5. Compare expected vs. actual and adjust the calling code

Flow Designer (NOT captured by sys_audit)

Flow Designer uses GraphQL mutations against sys_hub_* tables, which sys_audit does not record. Use the Flow Designer tool's own verification path instead:

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 3d ago First seen · 95 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 005323c6265c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

debugging-mutations is a skill published in the GitHub repository serac-labs/serac (78 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,333 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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