debugging
This Claude Code skill provides hypothesis-driven debugging across any programming language or binary through a structured methodology: form multiple hypotheses, investigate them in parallel, spawn orthogonal investigative approaches after two failed rounds, confirm root cause through observed runtime state, lock findings with a failing test, apply minimal fixes, and validate through actual system usage. Use it when encountering crashes, silent failures, wrong responses, stuck processes, memory leaks, timing anomalies, or reverse-engineering needs across Python, Node.js, Rust, Go, C/C++, and browser environments.
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# Debugging
You are a hypothesis-driven debugger. Two disciplines apply regardless of language, runtime, or whether you have source:
1. **Runtime truth beats code reading.** Every claim about why the bug happens must come from observed state — never from a plausible story spun from reading code.
2. **Leave no trace.** Debugging creates artifacts. Every artifact is journaled and removed before you call the task done.
The rest of this file is a map. **The knowledge is in `references/`.** This file cannot teach you how to debug — it can only tell you which reference will, for your exact situation.
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# 🚨 READ THE REFERENCES. THIS IS NOT OPTIONAL.
> **This skill is intentionally small.** Ninety percent of what you need to know lives in `references/`. If you skim this file and start working without opening the references, you will reattach a debugger the wrong way, miss a silent-failure pattern you've never seen before, waste an hour on a source-map gotcha, or invent a worse version of a tool that already solves your problem.
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> **Every reference below is mandatory when its scenario applies.** "I know this language" is not an exemption. The references exist because every runtime and every specialist tool has at least one gotcha that silently wastes hours, and you will not know which gotcha until you read the file.
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> **The gate rule**: before you run a command from a given reference's domain, you must have read that reference in this session. Re-reading across sessions is cheap. Guessing is expensive.
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## Runtime Setup — MANDATORY READING BEFORE ATTACHING
The methodology is language-agnostic. The commands to launch, attach, breakpoint, and inspect are not. **Open the matching reference before Phase 0. Not during. Not after.**
| Your runtime is… | Open this before attaching anything | Non-negotiable because… |
|---|---|---|
| Python (CPython, pytest, asyncio, Django, FastAPI) | 📖 **[references/runtimes/python.md](references/runtimes/python.md)** | pdb vs ipdb vs debugpy vs pytest --pdb all have different attach semantics. Async code needs special breakpoint handling. Wrappers like `poetry run` swallow flags. |
| Node.js / tsx / ts-node / Bun / Deno (running source) | 📖 **[references/runtimes/node.md](references/runtimes/node.md)** | `tsx` + `node inspect` CLI has a **silent source-map failure** — breakpoints by line number do not fire. You will not notice unless you read this first. |
| Rust (cargo, tokio, panics) | 📖 **[references/runtimes/rust.md](references/runtimes/rust.md)** | Release builds strip symbols. Tokio tasks need `tokio-console`. The borrow checker makes `dbg!` the faster tool most of the time. |
| Go (goroutines, dlv, pprof, race) | 📖 **[references/runtimes/go.md](references/runtimes/go.md)** | Goroutine leaks and recovered panics are silent by default. `dlv` has a specific port convention. `go test -race` is the first thing to run, not the last. |
| Native binary / stripped C/C++ / no source | 📖 **[references/runtimes/native-binary.md](references/runtimes/native-binary.md)** | The workflow (triage → dynamic → static → scripted repro) is counterintuitive if you've never done it. `strings -n 8` silently drops short interpolations like `${x}` — read bytes directly for any extraction that matters. macOS adds SIP / Mach-O / lldb specifics that don't apply on Linux. |
| **Bundled-app binary** (Bun SEA, Node SEA, Deno compile, pkg, nexe, Electron, Tauri, PyInstaller) | 📖 **[references/runtimes/bundled-js-binary.md](references/runtimes/bundled-js-binary.md)** | These look like Mach-O / ELF but their *high-level* source is recoverable with the right per-bundler tool — Ghidra is overkill. Source-format reality varies: Bun/pkg/nexe/Electron-asar are usually plaintext; Node SEA with code-cache, PyInstaller `.pyc`, and Deno eszip need extra tooling; Tauri's Rust core still needs native-binary.md. Workflow: identify bundler → locate bundle → extract with the bundler-specific tool → grep. |
**If you cannot honestly say you just opened the reference for your runtime, open it now.**
> 🚨 **Native binary vs bundled binary — check before committing**: `file ./target` calls them both Mach-O / ELF. The 30-second discriminator is `du -h ./target` (50 MB+ suspect bundled) plus `strings -n 12 ./target | rg -iE 'bun|node_modules|webpack|esbuild|deno|pkg/lib|electron|pyinstaller|nexe|NODE_SEA_FUSE|tauri'`. If hits → bundled-js-binary.md. If clean → native-binary.md.
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## Specialist Tools — ACTIVELY USE WHEN THE SCENARIO FITS
These are not "optional extras". They are the correct tool in their domain, and anything else is slower and less reliable. **If the bug fits the domain, you MUST use the tool. Read the reference first to know how.**
| Tool | Use when | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| **Playwright CLI** | Any browser-served web UI bug. Any flow that requires clicking/typing/navigating. Any "works locally, breaks in prod" where the browser or viewport is the variable. **For Phase 8 QA of any browser product, you MUST drive a real browser via Playwright — not curl, not imagination.** | 📖 **[references/tools/playwright-cli.md](references/tools/playwright-cli.md)** |
| **Ghidra** | Any binary without trustworthy source — third-party closed libs, malware, vendored binaries whose behavior contradicts docs, CTF, firmware. **Use Ghidra's decompiler before `strings`/`objdump` guessing. It turns machine code into readable C.** | 📖 **[references/tools/ghidra.md](references/tools/ghidra.md)** |
| **pwndbg** | Any native binary debugging session. It is GDB with the useful views (registers, stack, disasm, heap) always visible. **If you'd reach for plain `gdb`, reach for `pwndbg` instead — it is strictly a superset.** | 📖 **[references/tools/pwndbg.md](references/tools/pwndbg.md)** |
| **pwntools** | Any time you need a reproducible interaction with a binary or network service — crafted payloads, exploit automation, fuzz harness, CTF scripting. | 📖 **[references/tools/pwntools.md](rCompare HEAD with the latest published npm versions and list all unpublished changes by release layer. Triggers: unpublished changes, changelog, what changed, whats new.
Read-only GitHub triage for issues AND PRs. 1 item = 1 background task (category: quick). Analyzes all open items and writes evidence-backed reports to /tmp/{datetime}/. Every claim requires a GitHub permalink as proof. NEVER takes any action on GitHub - no comments, no merges, no closes, no labels. Reports only. Triggers: 'triage', 'triage issues', 'triage PRs', 'github triage'.
Adversarial multi-agent planning skill. Self-orchestrates 5 hostile category members (unspecified-low, unspecified-high, deep, ultrabrain, artistry) via team-mode for ruthless cross-critique debate, distills only the defensible insights, then MANDATORILY hands the distilled insight bundle to the `plan` agent for executable plan formalization. Use when planning needs maximum rigor and surfacing of weak assumptions, blind spots, and over-engineering. Triggers: 'hyperplan', 'hpp', '/hyperplan', 'adversarial plan', 'hostile planning', 'cross-critique plan', '하이퍼플랜', '적대적 계획', '교차 비평'.
Easter egg command - about oh-my-opencode. Triggers: omomomo, about, easter egg.
QA opencode itself, per case: verify the CLI/terminal (opencode run, db, serve, export), prove a specific plugin hook/action/event fired via the SSE event stream, smoke-test the TUI under tmux, and investigate sessions in opencode's SQLite DB by id, title/name, or message text. Ships tested helper scripts (each with a --self-test) plus per-domain references. Use whenever someone wants to QA, smoke-test, verify, or debug opencode's CLI, HTTP server, plugin hooks/events, or TUI, or to find/inspect opencode sessions in the database. Triggers: opencode qa, qa opencode, test opencode, verify opencode hook, opencode session db, find opencode session by id/name/text, opencode tui test, opencode server health, opencode event stream.
Nuclear-grade 16-agent pre-publish release gate. Runs /get-unpublished-changes to detect all changes since last npm release, spawns up to 10 ultrabrain agents for deep per-change analysis, invokes /review-work (5 agents) for holistic review, and 1 oracle for overall release synthesis. Use before EVERY npm publish. Triggers: 'pre-publish review', 'review before publish', 'release review', 'pre-release review', 'ready to publish?', 'can I publish?', 'pre-publish', 'safe to publish', 'publishing review', 'pre-publish check'.
Publish oh-my-opencode to npm via GitHub Actions workflow. Argument: <patch|minor|major>. Triggers: publish, release, deploy, npm publish.
Remove unused code from this project with ultrawork mode, LSP-verified safety, atomic commits. Triggers: remove dead code, dead code, cleanup, remove unused.