sova: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/sova-debug/SKILL.md

sova-debug is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from xsovad06/sova. It costs 22 tokens per session (505 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A step-by-step workflow for finding and fixing software bugs. It reproduces the problem, traces it to its cause, applies a small fix, checks the result, and adds prevention where appropriate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate errors involving application behavior, logs, recent code changes, configuration, permissions, databases, or timing issues.
Why use it?
A visible error is often only a symptom, so changing the wrong code can leave the real problem in place. This encourages evidence-based diagnosis and verification.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

This is xsovad06/sova's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on sova itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything sova configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to xsovad06/sova. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xsovad06/sova/main/.agents/skills/sova-debug/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xsovad06/sova

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 505 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 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 $0.00022 $0.00505
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00202
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00051

Measured 16d ago against content hash 188434c4fa5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sova-debug 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 16d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

- Try to reproduce the issue (via test, curl, or browser)
.agents/skills/sova-debug/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Systematic Debugging

Debug an issue in the project.

Problem description: the arguments provided when this skill is invoked

Workflow

1. Reproduce

  • Understand the problem from the description
  • Check application logs for errors
  • Try to reproduce the issue (via test, curl, or browser)
  • If the issue is unclear, ask the user for more details

2. Locate

  • Identify the relevant code path (URL -> view/controller -> service -> model)
  • Read the relevant source files to understand the flow
  • Check recent changes with git log --oneline -10 and git diff: was something recently changed?
  • Search for related error messages in the codebase

3. Diagnose

  • Trace the execution flow from entry point to the error
  • Identify the root cause, not just the symptom
  • Check common issues:
    • Missing migrations or schema changes
    • Import errors / circular imports
    • Configuration mismatches between environments
    • Authentication/permission issues
    • Database constraint violations
    • Race conditions or state management bugs

4. Fix

  • Apply the minimal fix that addresses the root cause
  • Do not introduce workarounds: fix the actual problem
  • If the fix touches multiple files, explain the connection
  • Scout rule: while in each file, fix any pre-existing issues you notice (lint warnings, dead imports, obvious bugs adjacent to your fix). Keep scout fixes small and low-risk.

5. Verify

  • Write a test that reproduces the original issue (should fail before fix, pass after)
  • Run the project's test suite (see CLAUDE.md for commands)
  • Check that no regressions were introduced
  • Verify application logs are clean

6. Prevent

  • If this bug class could recur, suggest a test that would catch it
  • If it was caused by a missing convention, suggest updating AGENTS.md or project guidelines

Cross-References

  • Need to run tests? Run the sova-test skill to iterate on failures
  • Want a review of the fix? Run the sova-review skill before pushing

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 lines

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. 16d ago Changed · +1 tokens per session 188434c4fa5b
  2. 22d ago First seen · 62 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 93ac1cafce4c

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sova-debug is a skill published in the GitHub repository xsovad06/sova (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 505 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-10-08.

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