Debug App — Monitor & Fix Agent Skill

Use when the user has finished building a mobile app, started it with `npm run dev`, and wants the running app monitored for runtime…

Context cost
22.5k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
1 file · 90.1 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
MITthe author’s own terms
Last change
—no release on file
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Use when the user has finished building a mobile app, started Metro with `npm run dev`, and wants the running app monitored for runtime errors AND silent failures (empty lists, blank screens, swallowed network errors) and fixed autonomously. Accepts a free-text symptom (e.g., `/debug-app "todos not appearing on home screen"`) to drive persisted-log diagnostics — injects temporary console.log statements at data-path boundaries, reads the sanitized `.powernative/metro-logs/` log, and cleans up logs after the root cause is fixed.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

mobile

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md90.1 kB · preview
--- name: debug-app user-invocable: true allowed-tools: Read, Edit, Write, Grep, Glob, Bash, AskUserQuestion, WebFetch, mcp__plugin_mobile-app_microsoft-learn__microsoft_docs_search model: sonnet ---
9> **Plugin check**: Run node "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/check-version.js" - if it outputs a message, show it to the user before proceeding.
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11**📋 Shared instructions: [shared-instructions.md](${PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/shared-instructions.md)** — read first.
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13# Debug App — Monitor & Fix
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15Monitor the running app through the project-local .powernative/metro-logs/ files written by metro.config.js, detect runtime and bundle errors, and fix them autonomously by editing the affected files (or routing to the right skill when the fix belongs in a domain like Dataverse schema or auth registration). For silent failures, inject temporary console.log statements at data-path boundaries, read only newly appended log bytes, then clean the traces after the root cause is fixed. Modeled on the upstream app-debugger.agent.md pattern — foreground loop, bounded polling, configurable clean-check/timeout exits, and optional watch-only operation.
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17> **Dev-client limitation:** the standalone dev client sends app/runtime logs, React errors, host diagnostics, and Metro bundler output through Metro. The template's metro.config.js writes Metro terminal output and HTTP bundle failures into .powernative/metro-logs/; there is no separate device log source. Host diagnostics include strings such as [AuthProvider] MSAL init failed:, [bridge] fetch THREW for, [bridge] HTTP <status> for, [addAadAppToConnectionAcl] failed HTTP <status> for connection, [useConnectionRefs] could not verify connection ACLs; treating existing connections as setup-required, and [PAHost][ErrorBoundary] Unhandled JS error:.
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19## Subcommands (parsed from $ARGUMENTS)
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21| Form | Behavior |
22|---|---|
23| /debug-app (no args) | **Default — project-log-driven mode.** Run Phase 0, discover valid project-local Metro sessions, select automatically when one is live or ask when several are live, then monitor the selected log. No host terminal ID is required. |
24| /debug-app "<symptom text>" | **Symptom-driven mode** (recommended when there's a user-visible problem). Free-text symptom such as "todos not appearing on home screen", "login button does nothing", "list empty after refresh". Run Phase 0 → Phase 0.5 (parse symptom → ask the user to reproduce/navigate → walk the likely data path from terminal traces) → enter monitor loop. Catches silent failures (empty lists, blank screens, swallowed errors) that pure log polling misses. |
25| /debug-app status | Discover all project-local Metro logs and print each valid session's project, platform, PID, port, start time, and log path. Mark the session referenced by the saved cursor when present, then print fixes and unresolved errors. Do NOT ask for a selection or enter the loop. |
26| /debug-app stop | Stop only the foreground debug loop and preserve .powernative/debug-app/ state. It does not stop Metro; the user owns the npm run dev process. |
27| /debug-app version | Print the installed mobile-app plugin name and version from ${PLUGIN_ROOT}/.plugin/plugin.json, then exit. |
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md12,811 words
Files1
LicenceMIT
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈280
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
22,245
on trigger
The instruction body, read only when the skill fires.
11.3%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would not fit in the window together.
050k100k150k200k context window

22.5k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

It does ask the agent to write files and to fetch pages, using the file and network access your client already has.

What it asks for
Writes filesyes
Network accessyes

Read from the allowed-tools line of this skill’s own SKILL.md. It also asks for Bash, which could do either, so what is not named there is not ruled out. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

1 file, 90.1 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md90.1 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 1 file you can review in full before installing. The MIT licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Debug App — Monitor & Fix · 22.5k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/debug-app-monitor-fix/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/debug-app-monitor-fix" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/debug-app-monitor-fix ] || { mv .claude/skills/debug-app-monitor-fix "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/debug-app-monitor-fix" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/debug-app-monitor-fix"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add microsoft/debug-app-monitor-fix

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/debug-app-monitor-fix/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/debug-app-monitor-fix/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/debug-app-monitor-fix" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/debug-app-monitor-fix ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/debug-app-monitor-fix "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/debug-app-monitor-fix" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/debug-app-monitor-fix" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/debug-app-monitor-fix/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where. It appears as debug-app in Gemini CLI, Codex, Copilot and Grok (its own name); Claude Code lists it by the folder name, debug-app-monitor-fix.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Versionnot versioned
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencemicrosoft/debug-app-monitor-fix

Versions

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