parallel-debugging

parallel-debugging is a skill for Claude Code from wshobson/agents. It costs 44 tokens per session (918 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for investigating difficult bugs by testing several possible causes at the same time. It collects evidence and compares the explanations before choosing a root cause.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for complex bug investigations, root-cause analysis, and parallel debugging when ordinary troubleshooting has not identified the problem.
Why use it?
It helps avoid focusing too early on the first plausible explanation. This is useful when a problem crosses modules or could come from logic, data, state, or integrations.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the agent-teams plugin — 6 skills, 7 commands, 4 agents shipped together

not rated 41krepo +558 today A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 44 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it for complex bug investigations, root-cause analysis, and parallel debugging when ordinary troubleshooting has not identified the problem.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wshobson/agents/parallel-debugging
About the project

Agentic Plugin Marketplace is a collection of reusable plugins, agents, skills, commands, and rules for coding-agent tools including Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, and GitHub Copilot. It is for developers assembling agentic workflows across multiple harnesses from shared Markdown sources, and the catalogue entries are examples or subsets of those workflow components.

wshobson/agents · 40,863 stars · on GitHub · sethhobson.com

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 wshobson/agents --skill parallel-debugging
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wshobson/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-teams, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 7 commands, 4 agents.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 918 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
  • Socket pass 15 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 15 Sept 2026
  • 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 $0.00044 $0.00918
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00367
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00092

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 31b6e288504f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

parallel-debugging 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 1mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/agent-teams/skills/parallel-debugging/SKILL.md · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Parallel Debugging

Framework for debugging complex issues using the Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH) methodology with parallel agent investigation.

When to Use This Skill

  • Bug has multiple plausible root causes
  • Initial debugging attempts haven't identified the issue
  • Issue spans multiple modules or components
  • Need systematic root cause analysis with evidence
  • Want to avoid confirmation bias in debugging

Hypothesis Generation Framework

Generate hypotheses across 6 failure mode categories:

1. Logic Error

  • Incorrect conditional logic (wrong operator, missing case)
  • Off-by-one errors in loops or array access
  • Missing edge case handling
  • Incorrect algorithm implementation

2. Data Issue

  • Invalid or unexpected input data
  • Type mismatch or coercion error
  • Null/undefined/None where value expected
  • Encoding or serialization problem
  • Data truncation or overflow

3. State Problem

  • Race condition between concurrent operations
  • Stale cache returning outdated data
  • Incorrect initialization or default values
  • Unintended mutation of shared state
  • State machine transition error

4. Integration Failure

  • API contract violation (request/response mismatch)
  • Version incompatibility between components
  • Configuration mismatch between environments
  • Missing or incorrect environment variables
  • Network timeout or connection failure

5. Resource Issue

  • Memory leak causing gradual degradation
  • Connection pool exhaustion
  • File descriptor or handle leak
  • Disk space or quota exceeded
  • CPU saturation from inefficient processing

6. Environment

  • Missing runtime dependency
  • Wrong library or framework version
  • Platform-specific behavior difference
  • Permission or access control issue
  • Timezone or locale-related behavior

Evidence Collection Standards

What Constitutes Evidence

Evidence Type Strength Example
Direct Strong Code at file.ts:42 shows if (x > 0) should be if (x >= 0)
Correlational Medium Error rate increased after commit abc123
Testimonial Weak "It works on my machine"
Absence Variable No null check found in the code path

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 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. 1mo ago First seen · 134 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 31b6e288504f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

parallel-debugging is a skill published in the GitHub repository wshobson/agents (40,863 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 918 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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