root-cause-debugging

root-cause-debugging is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yuchi-chang/no-cape. It costs 30 tokens per session (403 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A debugging guide for investigating bugs, failed tests, regressions, flaky tests, and other unexpected behavior before changing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate what went wrong, trace the underlying cause, and decide what to check before applying a fix.
Why use it?
It helps prevent guesses and fixes that hide the real cause or create new problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the no-cape plugin — 14 skills, 1 command, 3 hooks shipped together

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/yuchi-chang/no-cape/root-cause-debugging
Any agent
npx skills add yuchi-chang/no-cape --skill root-cause-debugging
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yuchi-chang/no-cape

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install no-cape, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 1 command, 3 hooks.

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 root-cause-debugging

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yuchi-chang/no-cape/root-cause-debugging.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/yuchi-chang/no-cape/root-cause-debugging)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yuchi-chang/no-cape/root-cause-debugging"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yuchi-chang/no-cape/root-cause-debugging.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 403 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00030 $0.00403
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00201
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00040

Measured 4d ago against content hash f70d41dd35e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

root-cause-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 4d 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/root-cause-debugging/SKILL.md · 35 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 4d ago First seen · 35 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A f70d41dd35e5

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root-cause-debugging is a skill published in the GitHub repository yuchi-chang/no-cape (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 403 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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