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Bug Localization

by ArabelaTso

Bug Localization is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by ArabelaTso in Skills-4-SE.

247 stars23 forkson ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SEAdded 2026/09/02+4% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/21
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Install Bug Localization
Copy Bug Localization 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/ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE/tree/main/skills/bug-localization ~/.claude/skills/bug-localization

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/ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE.git

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

In this catalog

Source file
skills/bug-localization/SKILL.md in ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/bug-localization
Collection
One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
Quality — 1418 skills

What Bug Localization does

Bug Localization identifies the most likely source of a bug from stack traces, failing tests, logs, and code patterns. Use it when debugging crashes, test failures, or runtime issues and you need ranked suspect locations with evidence.

Bug Localization is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Bug Localization comes from a repository tagged claude, claude-code, claude-skills, metaprogramming and software-development.

Documentation

README

Bug Localization

Precisely identify the location of bugs in source code by analyzing error messages, stack traces, failing tests, and code patterns. Provides ranked suspect locations with confidence scores and evidence.

Core Capabilities

1. Error Analysis

Extract information from error sources:

  • Stack traces - Parse and analyze call stacks
  • Error messages - Interpret exception details
  • Failing tests - Analyze test failures and assertions
  • Crash reports - Process crash dumps and core files
  • Log messages - Trace execution through logs
  • Debugger output - Interpret breakpoint and watch data

2. Code Analysis

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

Frequently asked about Bug Localization

  • What else does ArabelaTso publish alongside Bug Localization?

    Bug Localization is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include ACSL Annotation Assistant, API Design Assistant and API Documentation Generator. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Bug Localization does, and is maintained by ArabelaTso in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE page.

  • How does Bug Localization compare to other Quality skills?

    Bug Localization ranks #1310 by stars among the 1418 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 Localization against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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