A local MCP server named trace, configured to run the trace-mcp Python package with supporting libraries. MCP is a standard way for an AI coding tool to connect to an external tool or service.

Use it when a project is configured to connect to the trace-mcp server. It requires the TRACE_PROJECT environment variable and runs through uvx.

The input only describes how the server is launched and the project variable it needs, so its specific user-facing capabilities cannot be stated reliably.

trace — MCP server by Thru-Echoes

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 mcp/thru-echoes/trace/trace

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Thru-Echoes/TRACE

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

trace 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 2d 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.

.mcp.json · 21 lines

What it actually says

{
  "trace": {
    "command": "uvx",
    "args": [
      "--from",
      ".",
      "--with",
      "openai",
      "--with",
      "numpy",
      "--with",
      "model2vec",
      "--refresh-package",
      "trace-mcp",
      "trace-mcp"
    ],
    "env": {
      "TRACE_PROJECT": "trace-mcp"
    }
  }
}

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.

2d ago First seen · 21 lines scan A adf43307a458

Subscribe to this mod's changes

trace is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository Thru-Echoes/TRACE (22 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. Its token cost is not measured: an MCP server costs its tool schemas, not its config file. 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 2026-08-30.

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trace

Getting it into your agent

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

What it actually says

What this file has done since we first saw it

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