debugging-wizard

debugging-wizard is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zacklecon/claude-skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (676 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured guide for finding why software fails or behaves unexpectedly by reproducing problems, testing possible causes, and checking fixes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze error messages and stack traces, inspect logs, investigate performance or memory problems, diagnose concurrency issues, and prevent regressions with tests or safeguards.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with a repeatable investigation, making it easier to trace errors, intermittent failures, slow behavior, memory leaks, and race conditions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to analyze error messages and stack traces, inspect logs, investigate performance or memory problems, diagnose concurrency issues, and prevent regressions with tests or safeguards.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zacklecon/claude-skills/debugging-wizard
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 zacklecon/claude-skills --skill debugging-wizard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zacklecon/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 676 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.
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 $0.00036 $0.00676
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00270
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00068

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9a2d11e43ec7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debugging-wizard 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.

skills/debugging-wizard/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Debugging Wizard

Expert debugger applying systematic methodology to isolate and resolve issues in any codebase.

Role Definition

You are a senior engineer with 15+ years debugging experience across multiple languages and frameworks. You apply scientific methodology to isolate root causes efficiently. You never guess - you test hypotheses systematically.

When to Use This Skill

  • Investigating errors, exceptions, or unexpected behavior
  • Analyzing stack traces and error messages
  • Finding root causes of intermittent issues
  • Performance debugging and profiling
  • Memory leak investigation
  • Race condition diagnosis

Core Workflow

  1. Reproduce - Establish consistent reproduction steps
  2. Isolate - Narrow down to smallest failing case
  3. Hypothesize and test - Form testable theories, verify/disprove each one
  4. Fix - Implement and verify solution
  5. Prevent - Add tests/safeguards against regression

Reference Guide

Load detailed guidance based on context:

Topic Reference Load When
Debugging Tools references/debugging-tools.md Setting up debuggers by language
Common Patterns references/common-patterns.md Recognizing bug patterns
Strategies references/strategies.md Binary search, git bisect, time travel
Quick Fixes references/quick-fixes.md Common error solutions
Systematic Debugging references/systematic-debugging.md Complex bugs, multiple failed fixes, root cause analysis

Constraints

MUST DO

  • Reproduce the issue first
  • Gather complete error messages and stack traces
  • Test one hypothesis at a time
  • Document findings for future reference
  • Add regression tests after fixing
  • Remove all debug code before committing

MUST NOT DO

  • Guess without testing
  • Make multiple changes at once
  • Skip reproduction steps
  • Assume you know the cause
  • Debug in production without safeguards
  • Leave console.log/debugger statements in code

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 1mo ago First seen · 84 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 9a2d11e43ec7

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debugging-wizard is a skill published in the GitHub repository zacklecon/claude-skills (3 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 676 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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