debug-help

debug-help is a skill for Claude Code from sunnypatneedi/claude-starter-kit. It costs 8 tokens per session (270 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A step-by-step approach to finding the cause of a software problem and fixing it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Investigating bugs, analyzing error reports, narrowing down failing code, and verifying fixes.
Why use it?
It helps replace guesswork with a repeatable investigation. This makes it easier to isolate failures and check whether a fix really works.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the claude-starter-kit plugin — 42 skills 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/sunnypatneedi/claude-starter-kit/debug-help
Any agent
npx skills add sunnypatneedi/claude-starter-kit --skill debug-help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sunnypatneedi/claude-starter-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-starter-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 42 skills.

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 debug-help

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sunnypatneedi/claude-starter-kit/debug-help.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/sunnypatneedi/claude-starter-kit/debug-help)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sunnypatneedi/claude-starter-kit/debug-help"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sunnypatneedi/claude-starter-kit/debug-help.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 8 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 270 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00008 $0.00270
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00135
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00027

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0396acb8d3cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debug-help 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 6d 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.

skills/engineering/debug-help/SKILL.md · 64 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 6d ago First seen · 64 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 0396acb8d3cc

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debug-help is a skill published in the GitHub repository sunnypatneedi/claude-starter-kit (11 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 270 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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