diagnosing-bugs

diagnosing-bugs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sgaabdu4/hard-eng. It costs 0 tokens per session (76 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured workflow for diagnosing and fixing software bugs in a local coding environment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when investigating bugs, recording failures and rejected remedies, researching external or platform assumptions, and confirming that a fix works before finishing.
Why use it?
It requires a repeatable failure, a recorded diagnosis, and a passing fix check, helping avoid edits based only on guesses or incomplete reproductions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when investigating bugs, recording failures and rejected remedies, researching external or platform assumptions, and confirming that a fix works before finishing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sgaabdu4/hard-eng/diagnosing-bugs
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 sgaabdu4/hard-eng --skill diagnosing-bugs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sgaabdu4/hard-eng

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for diagnosing-bugs

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 76 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 $0.00000 $0.00076
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00038
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00015
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00008

Measured 10d ago against content hash d1481a2ea907, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

diagnosing-bugs 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.

scripts/test_fixtures/operating-contracts/valid/skills/diagnosing-bugs/SKILL.md · 7 lines

What it actually says

  • Bug-fix implementation admission = preserved red-capable reproduction.
  • Problem admission = observable violation still reproduces.
  • Solution admission = fix.md ladder PASS before edit.
  • dependency/native packaging requires unique needed behavior.
  • External/runtime/platform assumption → research.
  • Reporter failures + constraints + examples + rejected remedies = immutable diagnosis ledger.
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. 10d ago First seen · 7 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d1481a2ea907

Subscribe to this mod's changes

diagnosing-bugs is a skill published in the GitHub repository sgaabdu4/hard-eng (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 76 tokens. 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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