What problem does it solve?
This Skill empowers developers to deeply understand and interact with running Elixir/Phoenix applications by leveraging the unique introspection capabilities of the BEAM virtual machine, eliminating the need for traditional debugging and manual code inspection.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Live Code Evaluation: Execute Elixir code directly within the running application's context.
- Runtime Introspection: Inspect modules, functions, processes, and supervision trees directly from the BEAM.
- Database & Log Access: Query databases via Ecto and filter server logs with precision.
- Source Code Location: Pinpoint the exact file and line number of any function in the running code.
- Use Case: When encountering a bug in a live Elixir application, use
elixir_eval to inspect the state of a specific process or elixir_source to find the exact location of the problematic function without relying on grep or recompilation.
Quick Start
Use the elixir-dev skill to evaluate the expression runtime_info() in the running Elixir application.