Athar — Development skill for Claude Code
Trace a bug to its root cause, repro first.
How to install Athar
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/mkabumattar-black-iris-athar/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/mkabumattar-black-iris-athar && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MKAbuMattar/black-iris/HEAD/commands/athar.md -o ~/.claude/skills/mkabumattar-black-iris-athar/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Athar does
description: Trace a bug to its root cause, repro first argument-hint: disable-model-invocation: true allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Grep, Glob
Run the black-iris Athar mode on this input: $ARGUMENTS
- Read
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/black-iris/references/athar.mdand follow it. - Apply the Cut list and the Pre-send check from
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/black-iris/SKILL.mdto everything you write. - With no fail
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- Cloud Run Debug — Diagnose a failing Cloud Run service — Antigravity (agy/Gemini) digests the error logs cheaply, Claude infers 284 ★
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