git-bisect-debugging

git-bisect-debugging is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sjungling/sjungling-claude-plugins. It costs 94 tokens per session (1,656 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for using Git's bisect feature to find the commit that introduced a bug or regression. Git is a version-control system, and a commit is a saved change to the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when code or tests used to work and now fail, including many performance regressions and recently introduced test failures.
Why use it?
It narrows a long history of changes by repeatedly testing older and newer commits, avoiding a manual search through every change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the git-tools plugin — 1 skill shipped together

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/sjungling/sjungling-claude-plugins/git-bisect-debugging
Any agent
npx skills add sjungling/sjungling-claude-plugins --skill git-bisect-debugging
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sjungling/sjungling-claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install git-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,656 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 $0.00094 $0.01656
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.00828
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00331
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00166

Measured 5d ago against content hash 45b62f161dca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git-bisect-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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/bisect-test-template.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/git-tools/skills/git-bisect-debugging/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Git Bisect Debugging

Overview

Systematically identify which commit introduced a bug or regression using git bisect. Binary search through commit history to find the exact commit that introduced the issue. Main agent orchestrates, subagents execute verification at each step.

Announce at start: "I'm using git-bisect-debugging to find which commit introduced this issue."

Quick Reference

Phase Key Activities Output
1. Setup & Verification Identify good/bad commits, verify clean state Confirmed commit range
2. Strategy Selection Choose automated/manual/hybrid approach Test script or verification steps
3. Execution Run bisect with subagents First bad commit hash
4. Analysis & Handoff Show commit details, analyze root cause Root cause understanding

Limitations (By Design)

This skill focuses on straightforward scenarios. It does NOT handle:

  • Complex merge commit issues (would need --first-parent)
  • Flaky/intermittent test failures (would need statistical approaches)
  • Build system failures across many commits (would need advanced skip strategies)

For these scenarios, manual git bisect with user guidance is recommended.

Critical Rules

These are non-negotiable. No exceptions for time pressure, production incidents, or "simple" cases:

  1. ANNOUNCE skill usage at start
  2. CREATE TodoWrite checklist immediately (copy from "The Process" below)
  3. VERIFY safety checks in Phase 1 -- working directory must be clean, good commit must be verified good, bad commit must be verified bad. If any check fails, abort and fix before proceeding.
  4. USE AskUserQuestion for strategy selection in Phase 2 -- present all 3 approaches, do not default to automated without asking
  5. LAUNCH subagents for verification in Phase 3 -- never run verification in main context; each commit tested in isolated subagent via Task tool
  6. HANDOFF to systematic-debugging in Phase 4 -- after finding the bad commit, investigate root cause, not just what changed

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 5d ago First seen · 164 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 45b62f161dca

Subscribe to this mod's changes

git-bisect-debugging is a skill published in the GitHub repository sjungling/sjungling-claude-plugins (13 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 1,656 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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