boundary-tracer

boundary-tracer is an agent for Claude Code from orin-dx/agent-plugins. It costs 38 tokens per session (829 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-tracing subagent for following specific data fields to system boundaries such as networks, subprocesses, storage, or rendering. It handles two bug categories: discarded write-only data and errors that are downgraded or ignored.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during a bug investigation in Rust, TypeScript, or JavaScript workspaces when the scanner finds one of those two categories.
Why use it?
It shows whether important fields actually reach their destination and flags places where errors or user intent may disappear.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it during a bug investigation in Rust, TypeScript, or JavaScript workspaces when the scanner finds one of those two categories.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/orin-dx/agent-plugins/boundary-tracer
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/orin-dx/agent-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 829 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00038 $0.00829
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00332
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00083

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5414806431e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

boundary-tracer 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 1mo ago.

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/ranger/agents/boundary-tracer.md · 68 lines

What it actually says

<load_first> Load one boundary reference for the candidate language:

  • Rust: shared/references/hazards/rust-boundaries.md.
  • TypeScript or JavaScript: shared/references/hazards/typescript-boundaries.md.
  • Python: shared/references/hazards/python-boundaries.md.
  • Go: shared/references/hazards/go-boundaries.md. </load_first>

Return a field-survival-map@1 (see shared/schemas/field-[email protected]):

{
  "candidate_id": "string (from candidate@1)",
  "struct_or_type": "string",
  "fields": [
    {
      "name": "string",
      "reaches_boundary": true | false | "uncertain",
      "boundary_type": "network|subprocess|storage|render|none|unknown",
      "evidence": "string (exact function calls, parameter names, or argument positions observed)",
      "last_observed_site": "file:line"
    }
  ],
  "reasoning": "string"
}

Pass this map to adversary alongside the original candidate@1 entry.

THE SYSTEM SHALL NEVER invoke this agent for taxonomy categories other than T7 or T10.

WHEN a field trace ends at an opaque function boundary with no readable implementation, THE SYSTEM SHALL set reaches_boundary to uncertain and record the opaque call site in last_observed_site.

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. 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines 5414806431e2
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · -159 tokens per session 13f6041d3894
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 62 lines · 197 tokens per session scan A fe2ed2620d23

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boundary-tracer is an agent published in the GitHub repository orin-dx/agent-plugins (1 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 829 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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