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Best debugging skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Investigates a session where Superpowers went wrong, reads the transcripts on disk and produces an evidence-cited report, optionally prepared as a bug report for the maintainers. | obra/ | 296k | 3 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 2 | Reach into past AI conversation history through the trellis mem CLI. | mindfold-ai/ | 15k | 4 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | 8 days ago |
| 3 | Bumps the pinned v8 and rusty_v8 versions in Codex, validates the release-candidate path with the v8-canary check, and traces failures to upstream build changes. | openinterpreter/ | 69k | 2 repos | ~845 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 4 | General Supabase skill for database, auth, Edge Functions, Realtime and storage work, plus client libraries, migrations, security audits, debugging and reading logs. | supabase/ | 2.7k | 3 repos | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 days ago |
| 5 | Investigates failing Pester tests in PowerShell CI jobs by following a six-step workflow from pull request status to documented fix recommendations. | PowerShell/ | 56k | — | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 6 | Checks whether Android hidden-API implementations and system callbacks survive R8 minification, and diagnoses Release-only failures such as AbstractMethodError. | gkd-kit/ | 43k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | today |
| 7 | A skill your agent uses when implementing or debugging ANY network request, API call, or data fetching. | CherryHQ/ | 4k | 6 repos | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 8 | Debug AOTInductor (AOTI) errors and crashes. An agent skill from pytorch/pytorch. | pytorch/ | 104k | 1 repo | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 9 | Runs a read-only health check for cmux and explains what it finds, covering the CLI and socket, settings, agent hooks, session restore and notifications. | manaflow-ai/ | 28k | 1 repo | ~819 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 10 | Runs a disposable, uniquely named Herdr session inside an existing one so runtime, pane, terminal or API bugs can be reproduced without touching the main session. | herdrdev/ | 43k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 11 | A skill your agent uses when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes | ultralisp/ | 258 | 51 repos | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 24 days ago |
| 12 | Runs an autonomous modify, verify, keep-or-discard loop against any metric, with subcommands for planning, debugging, fixing, security audits, shipping and more. | uditgoenka/ | 6.5k | 1 repo | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 13 | Decides whether an OpenLogi device problem on macOS is a privacy-permission (TCC) problem, using agent log lines, and says which identity needs which grant. | AprilNEA/ | 23k | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 3 days ago |
| 14 | Investigates suspected bugs in the daisyUI monorepo through read-only analysis, then writes a decision-ready fix plan in tmp/bugs without changing any product code. | saadeghi/ | 43k | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 7 days ago |
| 15 | Execute read-only Ruby/Rails commands against Gumroad's production database for debugging and investigation. | antiwork/ | 9.8k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 16 | Investigates bugs, errors and stack traces in phases and requires a root-cause hypothesis to be confirmed before any fix is written. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 17 | Guides building, debugging and testing LangBot plugins: components, SDK calls, README and locale rules, SDK pitfalls and WebSocket-based testing. | langbot-app/ | 18k | — | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 18 | Gives a systematic process for debugging the forge CLI: build in debug mode, check the latest help output, test with the non-interactive -p flag, and clone conversations before reproducing bugs. | tailcallhq/ | 7.6k | 1 repo | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 19 | Drives a running OpenWork desktop window over CDP from the shell to evaluate JS, take screenshots, start sessions and send prompts for hand checks. | different-ai/ | 24k | — | ~465 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 20 | Resolves .NET runtime frames in Apple .ips crash logs to function names, source files and line numbers using dSYM symbols, atos and the Microsoft symbol server. | dotnet/ | 5.6k | 1 repo | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 21 | Debugs LangChain and LangGraph agents by pulling recent execution traces with the langsmith-fetch CLI and reporting errors, tool calls, timings and token use. | ComposioHQ/ | 77k | 9 repos | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 19 days ago |
| 22 | Covers debug logging, the Debug menu, profiling rules and runtime pitfalls for working on the cmux macOS terminal app. | manaflow-ai/ | 28k | 1 repo | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 23 | Takes a GitHub or YouTrack issue for the Exposed project through reproduction, a failing test, a fix, validation and a pull request. | JetBrains/ | 9.3k | — | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 24 | A skill your agent uses when the user is debugging a bug, tracing an error, or asking why something fails. | aws-samples/ | 106 | 11 repos | ~780 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT-0 | yesterday |
| 25 | Debug hanging issues in SGLang distributed inference (TP/PP/DP/EP). | sgl-project/ | 37k | 2 repos | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 26 | Launches, restarts and troubleshoots the real AO Electron desktop app from a checkout, with isolated or real local data and checks for stale processes. | OrchestratorInc/ | 13k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 27 | Analyzes V8, Chrome and Electron .heapsnapshot files with Node scripts to find memory leaks, detached DOM nodes and the retainer paths that keep objects alive. | keybase/ | 9.3k | — | ~875 | Automated safety check: Pass | BSD-3-Clause | today |
| 28 | React DevTools CLI for AI agents. An agent skill from sanity-io/sanity. | sanity-io/ | 6.4k | 3 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 29 | 29.Debug Skill Instructions for navigating and debugging BlockNote in a browser. | TypeCellOS/ | 10k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 30 | Step-by-step procedure for debugging browser automation failures on complex sites such as LinkedIn, Twitter/X, single-page apps and Shadow DOM pages. | aden-hive/ | 11k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 23 days ago |
| 31 | Repairs a broken OpenCLI site adapter after a command fails: collects a trace, patches only the adapter, retries, and files an upstream GitHub issue once fixed. | jackwener/ | 30k | 1 repo | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 13 days ago |
| 32 | Traces a bug through a code knowledge graph, following callers, callees and execution flow before opening source files, within a small token budget. | tirth8205/ | 32k | 1 repo | ~287 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 33 | Answers questions about a past agent run from its recording, using causal graphs and replay, instead of reconstructing events from memory. | iflytek/ | 5.2k | 4 repos | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 6 days ago |
| 34 | Guide for creating and maintaining outbox-based eventually consistent operations in Sentry. | getsentry/ | 45k | — | ~4.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 35 | 35.MQTTX CLI Operates the `mqttx` command line client to connect, publish, subscribe, benchmark and simulate data against an MQTT broker, with TLS and MQTT 5 support. | emqx/ | 5.1k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 6 days ago |
| 36 | Answers TqSdk Python questions on market data, accounts, orders, margin trials, simulation and backtesting, using the library's own docs and examples. | shinnytech/ | 5.1k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 37 | Investigates TiDB plan or test-result diffs that the change does not explain, ruling out failpoint setup and merge effects before expected outputs are updated. | pingcap/ | 41k | — | ~498 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 38 | 38.Issue Fix Fix bugs in SkiaSharp C bindings. An agent skill from mono/SkiaSharp. | mono/ | 5.6k | — | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 39 | Pushes an agent to exhaust every option, investigate before asking and take initiative beyond the literal request, instead of giving up or waiting passively. | tanweai/ | 20k | 2 repos | ~6.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 28 days ago |
| 40 | Explains why editing CUTLASS fused-MHA headers in ONNX Runtime can leave stale CUDA kernels after an incremental build, and how to force and verify a real rebuild. | microsoft/ | 22k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 41 | Use Trellis channel for live multi-agent collaboration, spawned workers, cross-agent review, progress inspection, forum channels, and channel log debugging. | mindfold-ai/ | 15k | 4 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | 8 days ago |
| 42 | Diagnoses surprising LoopX behavior, such as stale recommendations or tiny progress, assigns it to the responsible layer and repairs it at the lowest durable level. | loopx-project/ | 6.2k | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 43 | Guides CPU profiling of PlotJuggler 4 on Linux with perf: count first, record cheaply with LBR, then read per-thread, flat, flamegraph or time-window views. | PlotJuggler/ | 6.2k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | MPL-2.0 | 6 days ago |
| 44 | WooYun business logic vulnerability methodology — 22,132 real cases across 6 domains (authentication bypass, authorization bypass, payment tampering, information disclosure, logic flaws… | tanweai/ | 1.8k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 mo ago |
| 45 | Analyzes Chrome or Electron DevTools Performance trace exports with Python scripts to find where render time actually goes, without opening DevTools. | keybase/ | 9.3k | — | ~809 | Automated safety check: Pass | BSD-3-Clause | today |
| 46 | Resolves native crash frames from .NET Android tombstones to function names, source files and line numbers using BuildIds, Microsoft's symbol server and llvm-symbolizer. | dotnet/ | 5.6k | 1 repo | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 47 | Fixes a React Router bug reported in a GitHub issue end to end: fetching the issue, validating the reproduction, writing a failing test and implementing the fix on a new branch. | remix-run/ | 57k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 48 | Applies a four-phase debugging routine that finds the root cause of a bug or failing test before any fix is written. | ChrisWiles/ | 6.1k | 3 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 9 mo ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best debugging skill?
Diagnosing Superpowers Sessions from obra/superpowers ranks first of the 1,154 debugging skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 296k GitHub stars, 3 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 1.7k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Trellis Session Insight and Update V8 Version.
Which debugging skills are official?
81 of the 1,154 debugging skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Supabase Development and Debugging, Apple Crash Log .NET Symbolication, Exposed Bug Fix Workflow, Gitnexus Debugging, React Devtools and 76 more.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.
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