diagnose

diagnose is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vscarpenter/gsd-task-manager. It costs 66 tokens per session (1,643 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of diagnosing-bugs, MIT.

A structured method for investigating difficult bugs and slowdowns by reproducing the problem, narrowing its cause, testing explanations, and adding a regression test.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to debug failures and performance problems with tests, command-line or HTTP checks, browser scripts, captured traces, instrumentation, and verified fixes.
Why use it?
It creates a repeatable feedback loop instead of relying on guesswork when a bug or performance regression is hard to locate.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/vscarpenter/gsd-task-manager/diagnose
Any agent
npx skills add vscarpenter/gsd-task-manager --skill diagnose
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vscarpenter/gsd-task-manager

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 diagnose

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vscarpenter/gsd-task-manager/diagnose.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/vscarpenter/gsd-task-manager/diagnose)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vscarpenter/gsd-task-manager/diagnose"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vscarpenter/gsd-task-manager/diagnose.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,643 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 81% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00066 $0.01643
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00822
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00329
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00164

Measured 5d ago against content hash 28886402bbfa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

diagnose 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/hitl-loop.template.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

81% identical to diagnosing-bugs — 79 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/diagnose/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Diagnose

A discipline for hard bugs. Skip phases only when explicitly justified.

When exploring the codebase, use the project's domain glossary to get a clear mental model of the relevant modules, and check ADRs in the area you're touching.

Phase 1 — Build a feedback loop

This is the skill. Everything else is mechanical. If you have a fast, deterministic, agent-runnable pass/fail signal for the bug, you will find the cause — bisection, hypothesis-testing, and instrumentation all just consume that signal. If you don't have one, no amount of staring at code will save you.

Spend disproportionate effort here. Be aggressive. Be creative. Refuse to give up.

Ways to construct one — try them in roughly this order

  1. Failing test at whatever seam reaches the bug — unit, integration, e2e.
  2. Curl / HTTP script against a running dev server.
  3. CLI invocation with a fixture input, diffing stdout against a known-good snapshot.
  4. Headless browser script (Playwright / Puppeteer) — drives the UI, asserts on DOM/console/network.
  5. Replay a captured trace. Save a real network request / payload / event log to disk; replay it through the code path in isolation.
  6. Throwaway harness. Spin up a minimal subset of the system (one service, mocked deps) that exercises the bug code path with a single function call.
  7. Property / fuzz loop. If the bug is "sometimes wrong output", run 1000 random inputs and look for the failure mode.
  8. Bisection harness. If the bug appeared between two known states (commit, dataset, version), automate "boot at state X, check, repeat" so you can git bisect run it.
  9. Differential loop. Run the same input through old-version vs new-version (or two configs) and diff outputs.
  10. HITL bash script. Last resort. If a human must click, drive them with scripts/hitl-loop.template.sh so the loop is still structured. Captured output feeds back to you.

Build the right feedback loop, and the bug is 90% fixed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 5d ago First seen · 118 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 28886402bbfa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

diagnose is a skill published in the GitHub repository vscarpenter/gsd-task-manager (25 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,643 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 81% identical to diagnosing-bugs, differing in 79 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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