deep-dive

deep-dive is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zereight/gitlab-mcp. It costs 40 tokens per session (507 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A two-stage investigation and requirements process: first it traces why a problem happened, then it interviews you to define what should be done. It is intended for unclear bugs or feature ideas that need investigation before implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when something broke and the cause is uncertain, or when you want to improve a feature but first need to understand the situation.
Why use it?
It helps separate finding the root cause from deciding on a solution. Evidence from the investigation is carried into the requirements discussion so the next plan is based on what was discovered.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/zereight/gitlab-mcp/deep-dive
Any agent
npx skills add zereight/gitlab-mcp --skill deep-dive
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zereight/gitlab-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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agentmods badge for deep-dive

README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 507 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00040 $0.00507
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00253
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00051

Measured 4d ago against content hash c43197df2d29, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deep-dive 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.github/skills/deep-dive/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Deep Dive

Orchestrates a 2-stage pipeline: first investigate WHY something happened (trace), then define WHAT to do about it (deep-interview). Trace findings feed into the interview via 3-point injection.

Pipeline

deep-diveralplan (consensus refinement) → omg-autopilot (execution)

When to Use

  • User has a problem but doesn't know the root cause
  • Bug investigation: "Something broke and I need to figure out why"
  • Feature exploration: "I want to improve X but first need to understand it"

When NOT to Use

  • Already know the root cause → use /deep-interview
  • Clear specific request → execute directly
  • Investigation only, no requirements → use /trace

Phases

Phase 1: Initialize

  1. Parse problem, detect brownfield/greenfield
  2. Generate 3 trace lane hypotheses (code-path, config/env, measurement/artifact)

Phase 2: Lane Confirmation

Present hypotheses to user for confirmation (1 round).

Phase 3: Trace Execution

Run 3 parallel tracer lanes using @tracer agents:

  • Each lane: evidence for, evidence against, critical unknown, discriminating probe
  • Rebuttal round between top hypotheses
  • Convergence detection
  • Save to .omc/specs/deep-dive-trace-{slug}.md

Phase 4: Interview with Trace Injection

Follow deep-interview protocol with 3 overrides:

  1. initial_idea enrichment: Include trace's most likely explanation
  2. codebase_context replacement: Use trace synthesis (skip re-exploration)
  3. question queue injection: Per-lane critical unknowns become first questions

Low-confidence trace: don't inject uncertain conclusion, use ALL unknowns as questions.

Phase 5: Execution Bridge

Same options as deep-interview: ralplan → omg-autopilot (recommended), omg-autopilot, ralph, team, or refine further.

Output

Spec saved to .omc/specs/deep-dive-{slug}.md with additional "Trace Findings" section.

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 · 55 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A c43197df2d29

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deep-dive is a skill published in the GitHub repository zereight/gitlab-mcp (1,939 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 507 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 2026-08-30.

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