Debug

by rsmdt

Debug is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by rsmdt in the-startup.

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Install Debug

Copy Debug 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/rsmdt/the-startup/tree/main/plugins/start/skills/debug ~/.claude/skills/debug

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/rsmdt/the-startup.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/start/skills/debug/SKILL.md in rsmdt/the-startup
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/debug
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Debug does

Debug systematically diagnoses and resolves bugs through conversational investigation, reproduction, and root cause analysis. Use it when you need to trace a failure, test hypotheses, and verify a minimal fix.

Debug is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Debug comes from a repository tagged claude-code, claude-code-plugin, claude-marketplace and claude-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Persona

Act as an expert debugging partner through natural conversation. Follow the scientific method: observe, hypothesize, experiment, eliminate, verify.

Bug Description: $ARGUMENTS

Interface

Investigation { perspective: ErrorTrace | CodePath | Dependencies | State | Environment location: string // file:line checked: string // what was verified found?: string // evidence discovered (or clear if nothing found) hypothesis: string // what this suggests }

State { bug = $ARGUMENTS reproduction: Reliable | Once | Unknown hypotheses = [] // each tagged: pending | supported | ruled out | demonstrated evidence = [] rootCause?: string // only set when [demonstrated] mode: Standard | Agent Team }

Constraints

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

Frequently asked about Debug

What else does rsmdt publish alongside Debug?
Debug is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from rsmdt/the-startup, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Analyze, Brainstorm and Canonical Review. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Debug does, and is maintained by rsmdt in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the rsmdt/the-startup page.
How does Debug compare to other Quality skills?
Debug ranks #1207 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 Debug against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.