clink-debug SKILL.md skillA
clink-debug from xenodeve/xeno-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add xenodeve/xeno-skills/clink-debug@git:20260731.288d216Pins git:20260731.288d216 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- xenodeve/xeno-skills
- Path
skills/multi-agent/clink-debug/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260731.288d216, committed Jul 31, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 31, 2026
- Size
- 7,539 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2
- License
- MIT
The single home for delegating a bug hunt to clink agents — read it before sending any failure to clink-subagents or clink-brainstorm, not only a bug that already survived a pass. It routes a small bug to one cheap worker and escalates only what survives, defines the evidence that must travel with it, and enforces that no agent which produced a hypothesis may falsify or repair it. Use when a bug is about to be delegated, is still open after a worker looked at it, has two agents disagreeing…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# clink-debug > **Requires the same PAL MCP setup as [`clink-subagents`](../clink-subagents/SKILL.md) and [`clink-brainstorm`](../clink-brainstorm/SKILL.md).** This skill adds no new call shape — it sequences those two and constrains who may sit in which phase. Read whichever of them you are about to use for its own rules; this file does not repeat them. ## Start cheap — most bugs end here **One worker plus `debug-mantra` closes most bugs.** Delegate it through [`clink-subagents`](../clink-subagents/SKILL.md), give the worker `debug-mantra` and `karpathy-guidelines`, and send it the **failing command with its actual output** — never a description of them, because a worker handed a description diagnoses the description. **Do not convene a panel for this.** Three senior agents tracing a one-file failure burns three lanes to answer what one worker can, and it is the most common way to waste an afternoon. It also gets the care backwards: if the discipline only rides along with a panel, it reaches only bugs big enough to justify one — and **the small bug is the one people guess at.** Escalate past the cheap path only when one of these is true: …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add xenodeve/xeno-skills/clink-debug@sha256:352a706503a5cd0dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260731.288d216, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Jul 31, 2026.
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| git:20260731.288d216 latest | 2026-07-31 | 288d216 | 7,539 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260731.cd944ab | 2026-07-31 | cd944ab | 6,684 B | A | view |
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Source
xenodeve/xeno-skills · 2 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-12 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_k3ywjdj5eve2t5p4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=xenodeve/xeno-skills/clink-debug GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/352a706503a5cd0d8ce7b8b6b3d2d99bd145deeffc17c902ca10cfa78a46a76d
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.