recipe-diagnose

recipe-diagnose is a skill for Claude Code from shinpr/claude-code-workflows. It costs 15 tokens per session (2,267 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided investigation process for finding the cause of a software problem, checking the findings, and developing possible solutions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate bugs or other technical problems, have the findings independently checked, and derive solution options from the verified results.
Why use it?
It separates investigation from verification, helping reduce the risk of fixing the wrong cause or overlooking a failure point.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the dev-workflows-frontend plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate bugs or other technical problems, have the findings independently checked, and derive solution options from the verified results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shinpr/claude-code-workflows/recipe-diagnose
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 shinpr/claude-code-workflows --skill recipe-diagnose
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shinpr/claude-code-workflows

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-workflows-frontend, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,267 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00015 $0.02267
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00907
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00453
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00227

Measured yesterday against content hash 7dad2a92f8fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recipe-diagnose 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 yesterday.

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.

dev-workflows-frontend/skills/recipe-diagnose/SKILL.md · 225 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 225 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Explicit User Instruction: The user explicitly instructs and authorizes every subagent call named in this recipe. Execute each applicable call when its prerequisites are met.

Execute Skill: llm-friendly-context before writing Agent prompts, handoffs, or generated artifacts. Execute Skill: subagents-orchestration-guide before making workflow decisions, invoking agents, or resolving findings.

Context: Diagnosis flow to identify root cause and present solutions

Target problem: $ARGUMENTS

Orchestrator Definition

Core Identity: "I am an orchestrator."

Local authority gate: Make this recipe's workflow decisions and validate each returned result directly; delegate semantic deliverable production to the named specialist.

Execution Method:

  • Investigation → performed by investigator
  • Verification → performed by verifier
  • Solution derivation → performed by solver

Orchestrator invokes sub-agents and passes structured JSON between them.

At each Agent invocation below, build the prompt as a mechanical extraction: copy the named source values into the exact fields, apply only the declared serialization, then invoke immediately.

Execution Gate: Each step below establishes evidence required by the next decision. Complete Steps 0-7 in order, including every required investigation and verification retry. Advance only through the current step's stated quality or coverage condition; invoke solver only after coverage is closed.

Step 0: Diagnosis Scope Envelope (Before investigator invocation)

Define a semantic scope envelope from the reported problem and repository evidence by recording:

  • the user's symptom report and corrections verbatim, with linked evidence; distinguish these from investigation interpretations
  • observed and expected behavior, observed location, trigger, occurrence conditions, and onset when known; mark unresolved facts rather than selecting a location or condition by plausibility
  • symptom-reachable execution paths and adjacent cases that share the same path, contract, persisted state, or external boundary
  • applicable evidence axes: code, history, dependencies, configuration, governing documents, and external specifications
  • explicit exclusions from the user or governing artifacts
  • newly discovered areas are inside the envelope only when they have one of the relationships above and evidence shows they can change the supported cause set, coverage judgment, or counter-evidence

Read the full file on GitHub · 225 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. yesterday Changed 7dad2a92f8fb
  2. 3d ago Changed · +7 lines 737819233ed5
  3. 1mo ago Changed · -44 lines d5f1af29dc0f
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 262 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 0403595da2f9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

recipe-diagnose is a skill published in the GitHub repository shinpr/claude-code-workflows (703 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 2,267 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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