diagnosing-bugs

diagnosing-bugs is a skill for Codex from wangmiaozero/pi-harness. It costs 40 tokens per session (2,034 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A structured process for finding the cause of difficult bugs and performance regressions. A performance regression is when software becomes slower or uses more resources after a change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when software is broken, throws errors, fails tests, behaves incorrectly, or has become slow.
Why use it?
It replaces random trial and error with a repeatable diagnosis loop for failures and slowdowns.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it when software is broken, throws errors, fails tests, behaves incorrectly, or has become slow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wangmiaozero/pi-harness/diagnosing-bugs
About the project

Pi-Harness is a desktop workspace for the Pi Coding Agent, a software agent that helps with coding tasks, adding management of sessions, projects, files, Git, models, and skills. It provides tools for observing and controlling runs, recovering work, evaluating results, and coordinating multiple agents across macOS, Windows, and Linux. The catalogue entries are skills and instructions for its agent workflow.

wangmiaozero/pi-harness · 179 stars · on GitHub · wangmiaozero.github.io

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 wangmiaozero/pi-harness --skill diagnosing-bugs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wangmiaozero/pi-harness

Made for: 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 diagnosing-bugs

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wangmiaozero/pi-harness/diagnosing-bugs/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/wangmiaozero/pi-harness/diagnosing-bugs)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for diagnosing-bugs

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/wangmiaozero/pi-harness/diagnosing-bugs"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wangmiaozero/pi-harness/diagnosing-bugs.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,034 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00040 $0.02034
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00814
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00407
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00203

Measured 6d ago against content hash 849198df88cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

diagnosing-bugs scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 6d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

Phase 1 is done when the loop is **tight** and **red-capable**: you can name **one command** (a script path, a test invocation, a curl) that you have **already run at least once** (show the invocation and its output, red
resources/builtin-skills/mattpocock/skills/engineering/diagnosing-bugs/SKILL.md · 139 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 6d ago Changed 849198df88cd
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 139 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 77f3cf31bc99

Subscribe to this mod's changes

diagnosing-bugs is a skill published in the GitHub repository wangmiaozero/pi-harness (179 stars, last pushed today), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,034 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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