Bugbash

by av

Bugbash is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by av in facts.

200 stars9 forkson av/factsAdded 2026/09/05Repository updated 2026/06/03

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Install Bugbash

Copy Bugbash 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/av/facts/tree/main/skills/bugbash ~/.claude/skills/bugbash

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/av/facts.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/bugbash/SKILL.md in av/facts
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/bugbash
Collection: One of 8 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1662 skills

What Bugbash does

Bugbash systematically explores software projects to find bugs, usability issues, and edge cases. It is used on CLIs, APIs, backends, and libraries to produce reproducible reports with commands, logs, and traces.

Bugbash is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Bugbash comes from a repository tagged agents, claude-code, codex, copilot and developer-tools.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Bugbash (General Software)

Systematically explore a software project, find issues, and produce a report with full reproduction evidence for every finding. This skill applies to CLIs, APIs, Backends, Libraries, and other non-web interfaces.

Setup

Identify the Target (e.g., a CLI binary, an API base URL, a Python package).

Parameter	Default	Example override
Target	(required)	`./my-cli`, `http://localhost:8080`, `import mylib`
Output directory	`/tmp/dogfood-output/`	`Output directory: ./qa-reports`
Scope	Full project	`Focus on the auth middleware`

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

Frequently asked about Bugbash

What else does av publish alongside Bugbash?
Bugbash is one of 8 skills that DirSkills catalogs from av/facts, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Integration Testing, Discipline and Facts. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Bugbash does, and is maintained by av in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the av/facts page.
How does Bugbash compare to other Quality skills?
Bugbash ranks #1536 by stars among the 1662 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 Bugbash against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.