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.
npx agentmods add skills/archive228/loopkit/read-the-tracenpx skills add Archive228/loopkit --skill read-the-tracegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Archive228/loopkitWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00029 | $0.00197 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00098 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00039 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00020 |
Grade A, and why
read-the-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.
What it actually says
Read the Trace
LLMs love to see "TypeError" and generate a generic fix without reading the trace. Don't.
- Find the deepest frame in YOUR code — not the library frame at the top. That's where the bad value entered.
- Read the actual values: what was null/undefined/wrong-type, and where it came from.
- Trace it one level up: why was that value bad? The root is usually 1-2 frames above the throw.
- Reproduce with that exact input before fixing. A TypeError can mean a hundred things. The trace tells you which one — read all of it, including the "caused by".
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 · 13 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A a8cd91eb9486
read-the-trace is a skill published in the GitHub repository Archive228/loopkit (753 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 197 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.
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