Bug Detective

by Galaxy-Dawn

Bug Detective is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by Galaxy-Dawn in claude-scholar.

5.1K stars415 forkson Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholarAdded 2026/08/16+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/07/17

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Install Bug Detective

Copy Bug Detective into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar/tree/main/skills/bug-detective ~/.claude/skills/bug-detective

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/bug-detective/SKILL.md in Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/bug-detective
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Bug Detective does

Bug Detective provides a systematic debugging workflow for investigating and resolving code errors, exceptions, and failures. Use it when debugging, fixing errors, or troubleshooting broken code.

Bug Detective is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Bug Detective comes from a repository tagged academic-research, ai-agents, claude, claude-code and codex-cli.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Bug Detective

A systematic debugging workflow for investigating and resolving code errors, exceptions, and failures. Provides structured debugging methods and common error pattern recognition.

Core Philosophy

Debugging is a scientific problem-solving process that requires:

Understand the problem - Clearly define symptoms and expected behavior
Gather evidence - Collect error messages, logs, stack traces
Form hypotheses - Infer possible causes based on evidence
Verify hypotheses - Confirm or eliminate causes through experiments
Resolve the issue - Apply fixes and verify

Debugging Workflow

Step 1: Understand the Problem

Before starting to debug, clarify the following information:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Bug Detective provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

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Frequently asked about Bug Detective

What else does Galaxy-Dawn publish alongside Bug Detective?
Bug Detective is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Identifier, Architecture Design and Citation Verification. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Bug Detective does, and is maintained by Galaxy-Dawn in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar page.
How does Bug Detective compare to other Quality skills?
Bug Detective ranks #291 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Bug Detective against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.