flow-tracing

flow-tracing is a skill for Claude Code from ANcpLua/ancplua-claude-plugins. It costs 157 tokens per session (1,483 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tracing helper for following a change through the .NET Virtual Monolithic Repository, or VMR, and its build pipeline. It checks whether commits reached another repository or SDK build and can identify the component commit inside an SDK version.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check whether a pull request or commit reached another repository, find the runtime commit in an SDK build, and verify whether a fix is included in a specific SDK version.
Why use it?
It answers dependency-flow questions that are difficult to resolve by looking at one repository alone. It distinguishes merged changes from changes that have not entered the pipeline.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the dotnet-dnceng plugin — 10 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to check whether a pull request or commit reached another repository, find the runtime commit in an SDK build, and verify whether a fix is included in a specific SDK version.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ancplua/ancplua-claude-plugins/flow-tracing
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ANcpLua/ancplua-claude-plugins --skill flow-tracing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ANcpLua/ancplua-claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dotnet-dnceng, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 157 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,483 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 $0.00157 $0.01483
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.00741
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00297
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00148

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1a7b71f676e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

flow-tracing 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/Get-SdkVersionTrace.ps1), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/dotnet-dnceng/skills/flow-tracing/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Flow Tracing

Trace dependency flow across .NET repositories through the VMR pipeline. Two workflows:

  1. Cross-repo flow trace: Has a change from repo A reached repo B? → Use Steps 1-4 below (reads GitHub files + maestro MCP directly)
  2. SDK version trace: What component SHA is in a specific SDK version? → Run Get-SdkVersionTrace.ps1 (handles version decoding, build lookup, and servicing topology automatically)

Cross-Repo Flow Trace

Question: "Has change X from repo A reached repo B?"

Step 1: Resolve the Source Change

Identify the merge commit SHA in repo A from the PR number, issue number, commit SHA, or description the user provides. If the PR isn't merged yet, stop — the change hasn't entered the pipeline.

Step 2: Check VMR Intake (source-manifest.json)

⚠️ Internal branches (internal/release/*) exist only on AzDO, not GitHub. Use the AzDO REST API to read files. See references/internal-vmr.md.

Read src/source-manifest.json from dotnet/dotnet on the target VMR branch (usually main or release/*). This file is the authoritative record of what the VMR has actually consumed — subscription status reflects Maestro's bookkeeping, but the manifest reflects reality. Find the entry for repo A — the commitSha field shows the latest commit the VMR has consumed.

Determine if the change is included (try in order):

  1. Date comparison (fastest): If the VMR commit date is months after the PR merge date, it's included.
  2. Compare API: Use GitHub compare endpoint if dates are close.
  3. Commit history walk: List recent commits if compare is unavailable.

If repo A's SHA in source-manifest is not past the merge commit → the change hasn't reached the VMR yet. Check for an open forward flow PR from repo A into dotnet/dotnet.

⚠️ 2xx/3xx bands: Only the 1xx branch source-builds all components. If tracing to a 2xx/3xx branch, runtime/aspnetcore won't appear in source-manifest — they're consumed as prebuilts from 1xx. See references/servicing-topology.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 94 lines · 157 tokens per session scan A 1a7b71f676e9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

flow-tracing is a skill published in the GitHub repository ANcpLua/ancplua-claude-plugins (6 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 157 tokens to every session and 1,483 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.

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