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Canopy debug

Skill kostiantyn-matsebora/canopy/skills/canopy-debug

Trace any Canopy skill with live phase banners and per-node tree tracing. Respects the current mode — in plan mode no changes are applied; in edit mode the skill executes normally.From its SKILL.md

Install
npx -y skills add kostiantyn-matsebora/canopy --skill canopy-debug

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SKILL.md

3.1 KB, 608 tokens by cl100k_base, as published. Nobody here has run it

Runtime required. This skill uses Canopy tree notation; canopy-runtime must be active.

Detect canopy-runtime — present if either:

  • canopy-runtime/SKILL.md exists under .claude/skills/, .github/skills/, or .agents/skills/, OR
  • a canopy-runtime marker block exists in CLAUDE.md or .github/copilot-instructions.md.

If neither is present — install canopy-runtime first (see the compatibility field for the source and install options), then re-invoke this skill.

Do not interpret the ## Tree without canopy-runtime active.

Preamble: parse $ARGUMENTS — first token is target_skill, remainder is skill_args.

Tree

  • canopy-debug
    • IF << $ARGUMENTS is empty or skill name is missing
      • END Usage: /canopy-debug <skill-name> [skill-arguments]
    • bind target_skill = first token of $ARGUMENTS
    • bind skill_args = remainder of $ARGUMENTS (may be empty)
    • detect platform: .claude/skills/ present → claude; .github/skills/ present → copilot
    • IF << platform == "claude"
      • Read ../canopy-runtime/SKILL.md for the canopy execution engine overview
      • Read ../canopy-runtime/references/runtime-claude.md for Claude Code runtime rules
      • Read ../canopy-runtime/references/ops.md for the primitive-slice index (load specific slices on demand)
      • Read ../canopy-runtime/references/skill-resources.md for category semantics, op lookup chain, tree format, manifest
    • ELSE
      • Read ../canopy-runtime/SKILL.md for the canopy execution engine overview
      • Read ../canopy-runtime/references/runtime-copilot.md for Copilot runtime rules
      • Read ../canopy-runtime/references/ops.md for the primitive-slice index (load specific slices on demand)
      • Read ../canopy-runtime/references/skill-resources.md for category semantics, op lookup chain, tree format, manifest
    • Read assets/policies/debug-output.md for debug rendering and animation protocol
    • EMIT_PHASE_BANNER << phase=Initialize | skill=target_skill | args=skill_args
    • EXECUTE_WITH_TRACE << target_skill | skill_args

Rules

  • Load assets/policies/debug-output.md before any output — never emit debug output without it
  • Respect the current Claude Code mode — plan mode means simulate mutations; edit mode means execute normally
  • Emit banners and tree-state blocks to the stream as Claude narrates; never buffer and emit at end

Response: target_skill | phases_executed | nodes_executed | final_status

What ships with it: 2 files

13.9 KB alongside SKILL.md

assets/

references/

Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most debug triage skills give in 608 tokens

Counted across 1,020 of the 1,639 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-09-06

  • Find root cause before attempting any fixin 134 of 1020, across 118 files
  • Create a failing test case before implementing a fixin 109 of 1020, across 95 files
  • Read error messages and stack traces completelyin 102 of 1020, across 88 files
  • Reproduce the issue consistently before investigatingin 90 of 1020, across 77 files
  • Make the smallest possible change to test a hypothesisin 90 of 1020, across 76 files
  • Trace data flow backward to find the sourcein 84 of 1020, across 70 files
  • Form a single hypothesis before testingin 78 of 1020, across 64 files
  • Implement only one fix at a timein 76 of 1020, across 63 files
  • Question the architecture if three fixes failin 73 of 1020, across 59 files
  • Add diagnostic instrumentation at component boundariesin 68 of 1020, across 56 files
  • Compare broken code against working examplesin 68 of 1020, across 57 files
  • Write a regression test before applying the fixin 62 of 1020, across 55 files

Said here and by no other author read

  • Install canopy-runtime if not present
  • Read canopy execution engine overview
  • Read runtime rules for current platform
  • Read primitive-slice index
  • Read category semantics and tree format
  • Load debug output policy before outputting

Grouped from the skills themselves: near-identical wordings counted once, and counted by distinct author, so one author publishing three of these counts once. Length counted with cl100k_base; the agent that loads this file may tokenize it differently.

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