debugging-code

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By onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library (GitHub) · coding · 17 stars · scanned at commit 2a76bf4

Interactively debug source code — set breakpoints, step through execution line by line, inspect live variable state, evaluate expressions against the running program, and navigate the call stack to trace root causes. Use when a program crashes, raises unexpected exceptions, produces wrong output, when you need to understand how execution reached a certain state, or when print-statement debugging isn't revealing enough.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Downloads and installs other software

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

Found in 9 places.

skills/debugging-code/SKILL.md, line 29brew install AlmogBaku/tap/dap
skills/debugging-code/SKILL.md, line 41go install github.com/AlmogBaku/debug-skill/cmd/dap@latest
skills/debugging-code/references/installing-debuggers.md, line 11**Install:** `pip install debugpy`

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skills/debugging-code/references/installing-debuggers.md, line 20- macOS: `brew install delve` (or `go install github.com/go-delve/delve/cmd/dlv@latest`)
skills/debugging-code/references/installing-debuggers.md, line 21- Linux: `go install github.com/go-delve/delve/cmd/dlv@latest`
skills/debugging-code/references/installing-debuggers.md, line 52- macOS: `brew install llvm` (v18+ required)
skills/debugging-code/references/installing-debuggers.md, line 53- Linux: `apt install lldb` (or equivalent for your distro)
skills/debugging-code/scripts/install-dap.sh, line 13echo "Falling back to go install..."
skills/debugging-code/scripts/install-dap.sh, line 14go install "github.com/$REPO/cmd/dap@latest"

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this. Expected for a coding skill.

Found in 8 places.

skills/debugging-code/SKILL.md, line 29brew install AlmogBaku/tap/dap
skills/debugging-code/SKILL.md, line 35bash scripts/install-dap.sh
skills/debugging-code/SKILL.md, line 41go install github.com/AlmogBaku/debug-skill/cmd/dap@latest

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skills/debugging-code/SKILL.md, line 154dap continue --break app.py:50 # add breakpoint deeper, then continue
skills/debugging-code/SKILL.md, line 169dap debug app.py --break "app.py:42:i == 100" # skip 99 iterations, stop on the one that matters
skills/debugging-code/SKILL.md, line 179dap debug app.py --break "bank.py:68:balance < 0" # catch the overdraft
skills/debugging-code/SKILL.md, line 190dap step # step over — trust this call, advance to next line
skills/debugging-code/SKILL.md, line 209dap eval "len(items)"

Sends data to these websites: api.github.com, github.com

The author does not mention this.

Found in 4 places.

skills/debugging-code/references/installing-debuggers.md, line 38DAP_VER=$(curl -fsSL https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/vscode-js-debug/releases/latest | grep -o '"tag_name":"[^"]*"' | cut -d'"' -f4) && \
skills/debugging-code/references/installing-debuggers.md, line 40curl -fsSL "https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-js-debug/releases/download/${DAP_VER}/js-debug-dap-${DAP_VER}.tar.gz" | tar -xz -C ~/.dap-cli/js-debug
skills/debugging-code/scripts/install-dap.sh, line 43LATEST=$(curl -fsSL "https://api.github.com/repos/$REPO/releases/latest" \

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skills/debugging-code/scripts/install-dap.sh, line 67if ! curl -fsSL "$DOWNLOAD_URL" -o "$INSTALL_PATH"; then

Changes files outside its own folder

The author does not mention this.

Found in 3 places.

skills/debugging-code/references/installing-debuggers.md, line 39mkdir -p ~/.dap-cli/js-debug && \
skills/debugging-code/scripts/install-dap.sh, line 55if mkdir -p "$HOME/.local/bin" 2>/dev/null && [ -w "$HOME/.local/bin" ]; then
skills/debugging-code/scripts/install-dap.sh, line 60echo "Error: no writable install directory found. Try running with sudo or ensure ~/.local/bin is accessible."

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Install

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if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'debugging-code' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'debugging-code' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named debugging-code already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '2a76bf42ce5c860adf8d0f3fcf3f6804109ac65b' -- 'skills/debugging-code' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/debugging-code' ~/.agents/skills/'debugging-code' && 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/'debugging-code' ~/.claude/skills/'debugging-code' (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
2026-11-08	`2a76bf4`	100