bug-detective

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Check before installing. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar (GitHub) · coding · 6,038 stars · scanned at commit d394fb5

This skill should be used when the user asks to "debug this", "fix this error", "investigate this bug", "troubleshoot this issue", "find the problem", "something is broken", "this isn't working", "why is this failing", or reports errors/exceptions/bugs. Provides systematic debugging workflow and common error patterns.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. It runs automatically when the plugin is installed. Expected for a coding skill.

Found in 28 places.

skills/bug-detective/SKILL.md, line 126name = "John" # Error: tries to run 'name' command
skills/bug-detective/SKILL.md, line 142echo 'The value is $var' # Output: The value is $var
skills/bug-detective/SKILL.md, line 158rm -rf $dir/* # If dir is empty, deletes all files in current directory

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skills/bug-detective/SKILL.md, line 171cat file.txt | while read line; do
skills/bug-detective/SKILL.md, line 187arr=(1 2 3)
skills/bug-detective/SKILL.md, line 200if [ "$name" = "John" ]; then
skills/bug-detective/SKILL.md, line 215cd /nonexistent
skills/bug-detective/SKILL.md, line 231python -m pdb script.py
skills/bug-detective/SKILL.md, line 237node --inspect-brk app.js
skills/bug-detective/SKILL.md, line 243git bisect start
skills/bug-detective/SKILL.md, line 252bash -x script.sh # Print each command
scripts/lib/utils.js, line 11const { execSync, spawnSync } = require('child_process');
scripts/lib/utils.js, line 52const result = spawnSync('where', [cmd], { stdio: 'pipe' });
scripts/lib/utils.js, line 56const result = spawnSync('which', [cmd], { stdio: 'pipe' });
scripts/lib/utils.js, line 72const result = execSync(cmd, {
hooks/hook-common.js, line 10const { execSync } = require('child_process');
hooks/hook-common.js, line 20execSync('git rev-parse --git-dir', {
hooks/hook-common.js, line 28branch = execSync('git branch --show-current', {
hooks/hook-common.js, line 40changes = execSync('git status --porcelain', {
hooks/hook-common.js, line 128return execSync('git rev-parse --show-toplevel', {

and 8 more places

Connects to the internet

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.

Found in 2 places.

skills/bug-detective/references/common-patterns.md, line 228const response = await fetch(url);
skills/bug-detective/references/common-patterns.md, line 235const response = await fetch(url);

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

Found in 3 places.

skills/bug-detective/references/shell-errors.md, line 231brew install shellcheck # macOS
skills/bug-detective/references/shell-errors.md, line 232apt install shellcheck # Ubuntu
scripts/lib/package-manager.js, line 27execCmd: 'pnpm dlx',

Reads your saved credentials, such as SSH keys or .env files

The author does not mention this. It runs automatically when the plugin is installed.

Found in 1 place.

hooks/security-guard.js, line 164const sensitivePathPatterns = ['.aws/credentials', '.npmrc'];

Safer alternatives

Low-risk skills in the same category (coding) that look related. Check that one does what you need.

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'bug-detective' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'bug-detective' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named bug-detective already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'd394fb599ed9e6ea2212a9e6daa864345fe97a26' -- 'skills/bug-detective' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/bug-detective' ~/.agents/skills/'bug-detective' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'bug-detective' ~/.claude/skills/'bug-detective' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-12	`d394fb5`	59