parallel-debug

parallel-debug is a skill for Claude Code from ThierryN/fire-flow. It costs 15 tokens per session (512 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A debugging workflow that investigates a difficult bug through three separate explanations, each examining a different part of the system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for complex bugs, unclear root causes, production incidents, or issues involving multiple components.
Why use it?
It helps avoid settling too quickly on the first plausible cause when a problem spans several files or layers.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the dominion-flow plugin — 5 skills, 51 commands, 13 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for complex bugs, unclear root causes, production incidents, or issues…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thierryn/fire-flow/parallel-debug
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 ThierryN/fire-flow --skill parallel-debug
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ThierryN/fire-flow

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dominion-flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 51 commands, 13 agents.

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 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 512 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.
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 $0.00015 $0.00512
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00256
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00051

Measured 3d ago against content hash bedb3b573dbc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

parallel-debug 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 3d 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-library/parallel-debug/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Parallel Agent Investigation Pattern (Competing Hypotheses)

Validated by Anthropic's official Agent Teams docs as the "Competing Hypotheses" pattern.

When to Use

  • Complex bug affecting multiple components
  • Root cause unclear after initial analysis
  • Time-sensitive production issue
  • Issue spans multiple files/layers

The 3-Agent Pattern

Launch all 3 in a SINGLE message (parallel execution):

// Agent 1: Where symptoms appear (child component / output layer)
Task({ subagent_type: "fire-debugger", prompt: "Investigate [symptom location]..." });

// Agent 2: What triggers it (parent/caller / data layer)
Task({ subagent_type: "fire-debugger", prompt: "Investigate [trigger source]..." });

// Agent 3: Working reference (proven patterns in codebase)
Task({ subagent_type: "Explore", prompt: "Find working examples of [similar pattern]..." });

Process

  1. Each agent investigates one aspect independently
  2. All create research documents in .planning/research/
  3. Agents should actively try to disprove each other's theories (fights anchoring bias)
  4. Combined insights reveal root cause
  5. Implement fix with confidence
  6. Document in Skills Library (/warrior-add-newskill)

Expected Result

Solved in ~1 hour vs 3+ hours sequential debugging.

Example Success: Video Player Bug (Feb 2, 2026)

YouTube/Vimeo videos stopping after 2-3 seconds in MERN LMS:

  • Agent 1: Analyzed VideoPlayer.jsx (player lifecycle issues)
  • Agent 2: Analyzed CourseContent.jsx (callback patterns causing re-renders)
  • Agent 3: Found ZoomLessonPlayer (working callback refs pattern)
  • Solution: Callback refs pattern identified and deployed same day

Skills Library Reference: ~/.claude/plugins/warrior-workflow/skills-library/video-media/REACT_VIDEO_PLAYER_REINITIALIZATION_FIX.md

Key Insight from Anthropic

"When the root cause is unclear, a single agent tends to find one plausible explanation and stop looking. The debate structure fights anchoring bias. The theory that survives is much more likely to be the actual root cause."

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. 3d ago First seen · 61 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A bedb3b573dbc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

parallel-debug is a skill published in the GitHub repository ThierryN/fire-flow (77 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 512 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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