Etherscan launches Transaction Debugger skill for AI agents

Etherscan has released a Transaction Debugger skill that turns complicated Ethereum transactions into reports, either simple or detailed, using its own data. The block explorer designed the tool for agent tools such as Claude Code and Codex, giving them a structured way to analyze EVM transactions with live information from Etherscan, rather than relying on whatever the model thinks it remembers about a contract. What the Transaction Debugger actually does The debugger decodes the calls inside a transaction and lays out the path execution actually took. It also reconciles changes to assets and permissions, tracking who ended up with what, and which contracts gained the right to spend which tokens. When a transaction fails, the skill offers failure analysis. According to Etherscan’s materials, the output includes a summary of the transaction, the execution flow, and security observations. Report modes span from Simple to Security. Each report includes direct Etherscan links, and Etherscan positions every output as a read-only reconstruction drawn from its API that users should verify through the explorer. The skill can examine a single transaction or compare two side by side. It wor...