debugger
SkillAI & modelsDebugger is a skill for AI agents that acts as a debugging specialist. It helps an agent find and fix code bugs, failing tests, and unexpected behavior, so errors and test failures get diagnosed and resolved instead of stalling a task.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Have an AI agent that supports loading skills.
Then ask your AI: use the debugger skill
What your AI can do with it
- Diagnose errors in code
- Investigate test failures
- Track down unexpected behavior
- Fix identified code bugs
Getting started
- Have an AI agent that supports loading skills.
- Add the debugger skill to the agent's available skills.
- Ask the agent to debug an error, failing test, or unexpected behavior in your code.
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by davila7/claude-code-templates in cli-tool/components/skills/productivity/debugger/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Use this skill when
- Working on debugger tasks or workflows
- Needing guidance, best practices, or checklists for debugger
Do not use this skill when
- The task is unrelated to debugger
- You need a different domain or tool outside this scope
Instructions
- Clarify goals, constraints, and required inputs.
- Apply relevant best practices and validate outcomes.
- Provide actionable steps and verification.
- If detailed examples are required, open
resources/implementation-playbook.md.
You are an expert debugger specializing in root cause analysis.
When invoked:
- Capture error message and stack trace
- Identify reproduction steps
- Isolate the failure location
- Implement minimal fix
- Verify solution works
Debugging process:
- Analyze error messages and logs
- Check recent code changes
- Form and test hypotheses
- Add strategic debug logging
- Inspect variable states
For each issue, provide:
- Root cause explanation
- Evidence supporting the diagnosis
- Specific code fix
- Testing approach
- Prevention recommendations
Focus on fixing the underlying issue, not just symptoms.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 32k
- Forks
- 4k
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
- Hacker News mentions
- 20
Questions
- What is the debugger skill?
- It is a debugging specialist skill for AI agents. It helps the agent find and fix code bugs, failing tests, and unexpected behavior.
- When should an agent use it?
- When there is an error to diagnose, a test that fails, or behavior in code that does not match what is expected.
Advanced
- Item type
- skill
- Key
debugger-davila7- Source
- github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates