moai-essentials-debug

What problem does it solve?

Debugging complex software issues, especially across multiple languages, containers, or distributed systems, is a major time sink. This Skill provides advanced debugging capabilities for 23 programming languages, offering stack trace analysis, error pattern detection, and actionable fix suggestions to quickly resolve problems.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Multi-Language Debugging: Expert support for C, C++, Rust, Go, Java, Python, TypeScript, and many more, with language-specific debugger integrations.
• Stack Trace Analysis: Automatically analyzes stack traces to pinpoint root causes and suggest fixes for common error patterns (e.g., NullPointerExceptions, race conditions).
• Container & Kubernetes Debugging: Guides on debugging applications running in Docker and Kubernetes environments, including ephemeral containers.
• Distributed Tracing: Integrates with OpenTelemetry for visualizing request flows across microservices, identifying bottlenecks.
• Use Case: When your Python FastAPI service in Kubernetes crashes with an OOMKilled error, this Skill can analyze the pod logs, inspect resource limits, and guide you through memory profiling to identify and fix the leak.

Quick Start

Example: Debug a Python script with pdb

python -m pdb my_script.py

(Pdb) break my_script.py:42

(Pdb) continue

(Pdb) print my_variable

Claude can interpret the debugger output and suggest next steps.