troubleshoot

troubleshoot is a skill for Claude Code from SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework. It costs 30 tokens per session (328 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for investigating software errors, bugs, and unexpected behavior by tracing the underlying cause.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine error messages, expected behavior, possible causes, logs, and stack traces before applying and checking a fix.
Why use it?
It prevents blind retries and helps separate the real cause of a problem from its visible symptoms.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the superclaude plugin — 5 skills, 30 commands, 20 agents, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to examine error messages, expected behavior, possible causes, logs, and stack traces before applying and checking a fix.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/superclaude-org/superclaude_framework/troubleshoot
About the project

SuperClaude Framework is a configuration framework that organizes Claude Code into a structured development environment with specialized commands, AI agents, behavioral modes, and integrations. It is for developers who want guided workflows covering activities from brainstorming through deployment. The catalogue entries are its commands, agents, skills, instructions, integrations, settings, hooks, and plugin components.

SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework · 23,905 stars · on GitHub · superclaude.netlify.app

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 SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework --skill troubleshoot
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superclaude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 30 commands, 20 agents, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers.

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README.md
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 328 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 $0.00030 $0.00328
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00131
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00033

Measured 1mo ago against content hash de3c7eaf6b8b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

troubleshoot 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 1mo 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.

plugins/superclaude/skills/troubleshoot/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Troubleshooting Protocol

Follow this systematic root cause analysis process. NEVER retry the same approach without understanding WHY it failed.

Protocol

  1. STOP: Do not re-execute the same command
  2. Observe: What exactly happened? What was expected?
  3. Hypothesize: What could cause this? (list 2-3 possibilities)
  4. Investigate: Check official docs, logs, stack traces, config
  5. Root Cause: Identify the fundamental cause (not symptoms)
  6. Fix: Implement a solution that addresses the root cause
  7. Verify: Confirm the fix works
  8. Learn: Document the solution for future reference

Anti-Patterns (strictly prohibited)

  • "Got an error. Let's just try again"
  • "Retry: attempt 1... attempt 2... attempt 3..."
  • "It timed out, so let's increase the wait time" (ignoring root cause)
  • "There are warnings but it works, so it's fine" (future technical debt)

Required Format

## Root Cause Analysis

**Error**: [Exact error message]
**Expected**: [What should have happened]
**Cause**: [Root cause with evidence]
**Fix**: [Solution addressing root cause]
**Prevention**: [How to prevent recurrence]

Apply this to: $ARGUMENTS

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. 1mo ago First seen · 41 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A de3c7eaf6b8b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

troubleshoot is a skill published in the GitHub repository SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework (23,905 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 328 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 2026-09-03.

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