trace-skill-activity

trace-skill-activity is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from astra-sh/qvr. It costs 112 tokens per session (1,275 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An audit tool for recording and reviewing what agents do, including their turns, tool calls, and commands, linked to the skill active at the time. It stores this information in a local SQLite database, a file-based database format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect tool, file, and command activity, attribute actions to skills, export traces, or review past sessions.
Why use it?
It makes agent activity visible when you need to understand what happened or which skill led to an action. It can also read existing session history and export traces for analysis or archiving.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to inspect tool, file, and command activity, attribute actions to skills, export traces, or review past sessions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/astra-sh/qvr/trace-skill-activity
View source ↗ astra-sh/qvr
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 astra-sh/qvr --skill trace-skill-activity
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/astra-sh/qvr

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,275 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 $0.00112 $0.01275
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00638
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00255
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00128

Measured 7d ago against content hash 431309c1e72d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

trace-skill-activity 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 7d 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.

skills/trace-skill-activity/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Trace skill activity with qvr audit

qvr audit records what your agents actually did — every turn, tool call, and command — attributed to the skill that was active — into a local SQLite database (~/.quiver/skillops.db). Agents already keep their own session history on disk; qvr reads those native stores directly, so there is no agent configuration to touch and months of existing history back-fill on the first scan. The subsystem is experimental, opt-in, and disabled by default; its command surface, storage format, and output shapes may change.

When to use this

  • The user wants visibility into agent tool/file/command activity.
  • They want to attribute actions to the skill that was active.
  • They want to export traces for external analysis, replay, or archival.

This is observability only — it does not change what skills are installed (that's onboard-skills) or verify their integrity (that's verify-skill-supply-chain).

How it works (two layers)

  • Raw traces — the agent's own transcript lines, captured verbatim. This is the source of truth (qvr audit export, sessions show).
  • Derived projection — the unified per-session model (title, model, turn/tool counts, skills) plus Turn / Tool / Skill spans projected from the raw traces, as shown by qvr audit sessions and qvr audit logs. A deriver must exist for the agent (the DERIVES column in status reports this); only deriver-backed agents are scanned.

Workflow

1. Enable capture and discover your history

enable sets ops.enabled in config and creates the database. discover scans every supported agent's native session store and records the skill-using sessions it finds; sessions that provably used no skill are counted but not stored (pass --keep-all to import everything).

qvr audit enable
qvr audit discover                      # scan every agent's session store
qvr audit discover --agent <agent>      # scan a single agent
qvr audit discover --since 90d          # bound the back-fill window
qvr audit discover --dry-run            # report what would be scanned

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 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. 7d ago First seen · 127 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A 431309c1e72d

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trace-skill-activity is a skill published in the GitHub repository astra-sh/qvr (23 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 1,275 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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