Write test based on trace

Write test based on trace is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AshotN/OpenCode-Relay. It costs 24 tokens per session (1,036 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A debugging workflow that reads the latest action trace and creates a failing test reproducing the reported problem before any fix is made.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a plugin issue follows a sequence of user actions, especially when the relevant trace is stored in Java's temporary directory or an IDE sandbox log.
Why use it?
It turns a user's description and recorded IDE actions into a precise test case, helping confirm the bug and prevent an unverified fix.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/ashotn/opencode-relay/writing-test-with-trace
Any agent
npx skills add AshotN/OpenCode-Relay --skill writing-test-with-trace
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AshotN/OpenCode-Relay

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,036 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 $0.00024 $0.01036
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00518
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00207
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00104

Measured 4d ago against content hash 72d9600ccf90, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Write test based on 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 4d 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.

.opencode/skills/writing-test-with-trace/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Core

The user has experienced an issue. They followed a series of steps with the plugin and something went wrong. With their explanation in mind, read the latest trace log and create a test that captures the issue. The test must fail before any fix is applied.

Trace files

Use a explore sub-agent to find the most recent trace

Trace files are written under Java's temp directory, not necessarily literal /tmp. The code uses Path.of(System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir"), "opencode-diff-traces").

On macOS this often resolves to a sandboxed path such as /var/folders/.../T/opencode-diff-traces, even though users may describe it as /tmp. Do not assume /tmp/opencode-diff-traces exists before checking how java.io.tmpdir was resolved for the running IDE instance.

If the user ran the plugin from Gradle's Run Plugin configuration, check the sandbox IDE log first to find the exact trace file path. In this repo that is typically build/idea-sandbox/IU-*/log/idea.log. Search for:

  • JsonlDiffTracer: tracing enabled file=
  • failed to create trace directory
  • failed to open trace file

Use that log line to locate the exact JSONL trace file before reading it. Once you know the directory, list it to find the most recent file (sorted by modification time). Check its line count with wc -l before reading. If it is small (under a few hundred lines), read it in full with cat. If it is large, use grep to filter by the kind values relevant to the issue, or read the tail with tail -n N to focus on the most recent events.

Each line is a JSON object. Read events in seq order. Each event has a kind, a sessionId inside fields, and additional fields that vary by kind. Read the fields that are present and reason from them — do not assume which fields will be relevant before reading.

Identifying the root cause

Do not jump to conclusions. Read the trace in full first, then reason from what you observe.

Describe what the trace shows and compare it against what the user expected to happen. The gap between those two things is the bug. Only after identifying the gap should you form a hypothesis about the cause.

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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. 4d ago First seen · 110 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 72d9600ccf90

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Write test based on trace is a skill published in the GitHub repository AshotN/OpenCode-Relay (23 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,036 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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