analyze-dump

analyze-dump is a skill for Claude Code from svnscha/mcp-windbg. It costs 47 tokens per session (535 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for investigating Windows crash-dump files, which record what a program was doing when it stopped. It identifies the exception, the code location that failed, and what to inspect next.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine .dmp files, find the failing process and code frame, understand the exception, and decide on the next debugging checks.
Why use it?
It turns debugger output into a focused explanation of what actually crashed, instead of leaving you to interpret a large technical report alone.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the mcp-windbg plugin — 4 skills, 1 agent, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to examine .dmp files, find the failing process and code frame, understand the exception, and decide on the next debugging checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/svnscha/mcp-windbg/analyze-dump
About the project

mcp-windbg is a Model Context Protocol server that lets AI models control WinDbg, the Windows debugger used to inspect crash dumps and debug user-mode or kernel software. Developers and investigators use it to run debugger commands, examine failures, and manage multiple live debugging sessions through natural-language requests. The catalogue add-ons connect coding agents to this debugging workflow.

svnscha/mcp-windbg · 1,562 stars · on GitHub · svnscha.de

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 svnscha/mcp-windbg --skill analyze-dump
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/svnscha/mcp-windbg

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mcp-windbg, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 1 agent, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 535 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 $0.00047 $0.00535
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00267
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00053

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8d4d5814a3cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyze-dump 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 9d 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/mcp-windbg/skills/analyze-dump/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

Analyze a Windows crash dump

Work through a .dmp file with the mcp-windbg tools and report what actually crashed, not just what the debugger printed.

Getting a dump path

If the user gave a path, use it. If not, call list_dumps to show what is in the local crash dump directory and ask which one. Do not guess.

Triage

  1. open_cdb_dump with the path. Pass include_stack_trace: true; add include_modules or include_threads only if the question calls for them. Keep the returned session_id for every follow-up call.
  2. run_cdb_command with !analyze -v. This is the single most informative command and belongs in every triage.
  3. Follow the evidence with further run_cdb_command calls. Useful next steps:
    • k / kb for the call stack with arguments
    • lm to see whether the faulting module has symbols
    • .exr -1, .ecxr for the exception record and context
    • dt, dx, db/dd to inspect the data the crash implicates
  4. close_cdb_session when you are done.

Reporting

Lead with the answer: what failed, where, and why, in the first two sentences. Then support it - exception code and its meaning, the faulting frame, and the specific evidence that points there.

Two things worth being explicit about:

  • Say when symbols are missing. A stack full of module+0x1234 is a symbol problem, not an analysis result. Say so rather than reading meaning into offsets, and mention _NT_SYMBOL_PATH.
  • Separate fact from inference. "The access violation is at a null this pointer" is a fact from the register state. "This is probably a use-after-free" is a hypothesis - label it as one and say what would confirm it.

If the dump does not support a conclusion, say that. An honest "this dump only shows the crash point, not the cause, and here is what would" is more useful than a confident guess.

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. 9d ago First seen · 48 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 8d4d5814a3cd

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analyze-dump is a skill published in the GitHub repository svnscha/mcp-windbg (1,562 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 535 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.