debugging-instruments

debugging-instruments is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from TalissonVitorino/kmp-ios-skills. It costs 221 tokens per session (4,641 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to finding bugs and performance problems in iOS and macOS apps using Xcode’s debugging and profiling tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to pause and inspect running code with LLDB, find memory leaks and retain cycles, measure CPU and memory use, investigate hangs and animation problems, add signposts to trace code, and triage build failures.
Why use it?
It helps you see why an app crashes, slows down, uses too much memory, leaks resources, freezes, or drains energy.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to pause and inspect running code with LLDB, find memory leaks and retain cycles, measure CPU and memory use, investigate hangs and animation problems, add signposts to trace code, and triage build failures.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/talissonvitorino/kmp-ios-skills/debugging-instruments
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 TalissonVitorino/kmp-ios-skills --skill debugging-instruments
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TalissonVitorino/kmp-ios-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 221 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,641 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 $0.00221 $0.04641
Opus 5 $0.00111 $0.02320
Sonnet 5 $0.00044 $0.00928
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00464

Measured 8d ago against content hash 38a22e300a52, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debugging-instruments 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 8d 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.

ios/debugging-instruments/SKILL.md · 257 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 257 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Debugging & Instruments (iOS / macOS)

Interactive debugging and performance profiling for a fintech iOS app: pause and inspect with LLDB, find leaks and retain cycles with the Memory Graph Debugger, and measure CPU / memory / hangs / hitches / energy / network with Instruments. Grounded in the LLDB, Xcode, Instruments, and os (unified logging) tooling. Target: iOS 26 era, Xcode 26.

  • Production counterpart: metrickit — the field version of these signals (hangs, disk-writes, launch time, crashes) sampled from real users. Debug locally here; regress in CI/production there.
  • SwiftUI update traces: swiftui-expert-skill owns deep .trace analysis of the SwiftUI instrument (View Body / Properties / Core Animation commits).
  • Simulator control: ios-simulator (simctl) to install/launch/deep-link/screenshot the target you profile.
  • Android/KMP counterpart: perfetto-trace-analysis (+ perfetto-sql) for the shared/Android side.

Contents

Pick the right tool

Symptom Tool
Wrong value / crash at a line LLDB breakpoints + po/p/v
Object never deallocates, retain cycle Memory Graph Debugger (+ MallocStackLogging)
Growing memory, no cycle Instruments → Allocations (mark generations)
CPU-bound, slow method Time Profiler / CPU Profiler
Main-thread stall > 250 ms Hangs instrument (or Time Profiler)
Scroll/animation stutter Animation Hitches
Battery drain Energy Log
Slow/redundant requests Network
SwiftUI re-render storms SwiftUI instrument → swiftui-expert-skill
Measure a specific code region os_signpost / Points of Interest
Repeatable profiling in CI xctrace CLI

Read the full file on GitHub · 257 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 8d ago First seen · 257 lines · 221 tokens per session scan A 38a22e300a52

Subscribe to this mod's changes

debugging-instruments is a skill published in the GitHub repository TalissonVitorino/kmp-ios-skills (12 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 221 tokens to every session and 4,641 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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