traces

A debugging command for viewing recent trace spans, which are records of individual operations and their timing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect recent operations, filter them by operation or status, and limit the number of results.
Why use it?
It helps you see which memory operations ran, whether they succeeded, how long they took, and what context they used.

Command

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 commands/zircote/git-notes-memory/traces
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zircote/git-notes-memory
Per session 6 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 986 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 $0.00006 $0.00986
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00493
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00099

Measured yesterday against content hash 563e4952fbf3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

traces 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.

commands/traces.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

<help_check>

Help Check

If $ARGUMENTS contains --help or -h:

Output this help and HALT (do not proceed further):

<help_output>

TRACES(1)                                            User Commands                                            TRACES(1)

NAME
    traces - Display recent trace spans for debugging

SYNOPSIS
    /memory:traces [--operation=<name>] [--status=ok|error] [--limit=<n>]

DESCRIPTION
    Display completed trace spans from memory operations. Useful for debugging
    performance issues and understanding operation flow. Shows timing, status,
    and context for each traced operation.

OPTIONS
    --help, -h            Show this help message
    --operation=NAME      Filter by operation name (e.g., "capture", "recall")
    --status=STATUS       Filter by status: ok, error
    --limit=N             Maximum traces to show (default: 10)

EXAMPLES
    /memory:traces
    /memory:traces --limit=20
    /memory:traces --operation=capture
    /memory:traces --status=error
    /memory:traces --operation=recall --limit=5
    /memory:traces --help

SEE ALSO
    /memory:metrics for collected metrics
    /memory:health for health status with timing

                                                                      TRACES(1)

</help_output>

After outputting help, HALT immediately. Do not proceed with command execution. </help_check>


/memory:traces - Recent Trace Spans

Display recent trace spans for debugging memory operations.

Your Task

You will display completed traces from the observability system.

Arguments format: $ARGUMENTS

Parse the following options:

  • --operation=<name> - Filter by operation name
  • --status=ok|error - Filter by status
  • --limit=<n> - Maximum traces to show (default: 10)

Execute the traces collection:

PLUGIN_ROOT="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$(ls -d ~/.claude/plugins/cache/git-notes-memory/memory-capture/*/ 2>/dev/null | head -1)}"
uv run --directory "$PLUGIN_ROOT" python3 "$PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/traces.py" $ARGUMENTS

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 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 · 147 lines · 6 tokens per session scan A 563e4952fbf3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

traces is a command published in the GitHub repository zircote/git-notes-memory (4 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 6 tokens to every session and 986 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.