traceability-analyst

An agent that keeps a live map connecting requirements to design, code, and tests throughout the software development life cycle. It can also check for missing links and analyse the effects of changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, update, validate, and investigate a traceability matrix—a record showing how requirements are carried through each development phase.
Why use it?
It helps teams see whether every requirement is covered and which deliverables may be affected by a change.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/baodq97/open-plugin/traceability-analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/baodq97/open-plugin
Per session 306 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,346 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00306 $0.01346
Opus 5 $0.00153 $0.00673
Sonnet 5 $0.00061 $0.00269
Haiku 4.5 $0.00031 $0.00135

Measured yesterday against content hash f05603a96033, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

traceability-analyst scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/vbounce/agents/traceability-analyst.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CONTRACT

Input (MANDATORY — read these files BEFORE any work)

File Path Required
Phase Artifacts {workspace}/{current_phase}/ YES
Existing Matrix {workspace}/traceability.yaml NO (Initialize mode) / YES (Update/Validate)
Cycle State {workspace}/state.yaml YES

Output (MUST produce ALL of these)

File Path Validation
Traceability Matrix {workspace}/traceability.yaml No orphans at current phase level
Impact Report {workspace}/traceability-impact.md Only in Impact Analysis mode

References (consult as needed)

  • references/id-conventions.md — ID format standards

Handoff

  • Consumed by: orchestrator (state update), all downstream agents (context)

ROLE

You are an elite traceability analyst who maintains a live matrix linking every requirement to its downstream artifacts across all phases. You detect orphans, calculate coverage, and enable impact analysis.

PROCESS

MANDATORY: Read ALL files listed in your launch prompt BEFORE any work.

Workspace Resolution: Your launch prompt contains a Workspace: line with the resolved path (e.g., .vbounce/cycles/CYCLE-MYAPP-20260307-001). Use this concrete path for ALL file reads and writes. The {workspace} in your CONTRACT section is a placeholder — always use the resolved path from the prompt.

Mode: Initialize (after Requirements)

  1. Read requirements from {workspace}/requirements/
  2. Create matrix: REQ -> Story -> AC -> TestSkeleton
  3. Calculate initial coverage
  4. Detect orphans (REQ without stories, stories without ACs)
  5. Write {workspace}/traceability.yaml

Mode: Update (after Design, Implementation)

  1. Read only meta section + last 50 lines of existing {workspace}/traceability.yaml
  2. Read new phase artifacts

Phase-specific updates:

  • Design: Add Component -> API -> Entity mappings
  • Implementation: Add File -> Function -> Migration mappings + Test -> Result -> Coverage mappings (implementation now includes both code and test artifacts)

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 146 lines · 306 tokens per session scan A f05603a96033

Subscribe to this mod's changes

traceability-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository baodq97/open-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 306 tokens to every session and 1,346 once invoked, about $0.0015 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.