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/automagik-dev/genie/tracenpx skills add automagik-dev/genie --skill tracegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/automagik-dev/genieWhat 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 | $0.00025 | $0.00795 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00398 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00159 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00080 |
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 3d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
trace — Investigation and Root Cause Analysis
Runtime syntax: invoke the plugin copy through the active runtime's owner-qualified skill selector; use a bare selector only when intentionally selecting a user-tier copy (a separately installed personal copy; Genie no longer seeds this tier). Cross-skill prose below uses bare names as portable semantic routes; the orchestrator resolves the selector for the active runtime.
Investigate unknown failures: dispatch a trace subagent to reproduce, trace, and isolate root cause, then hand the report to fix. The deliverable is findings only — report and stop; never apply fixes, however obvious.
When to Use
- A failure exists but the cause is unknown
- Stack traces or error messages don't point to an obvious defect
- Multiple files or systems may be involved
reviewhit a failure with unclear root cause and needs a diagnosis beforefix
Flow
- Collect symptoms: error messages, stack traces, logs, and expected vs actual behavior from the wish or reporter.
- Dispatch tracer: native delegation surface → trace subagent, briefed with the symptoms, relevant context (files, recent changes, environment), and read-only stop conditions (see Dispatch).
- Investigate: the tracer reproduces, hypothesizes, traces, and isolates root cause autonomously.
- Receive report: the tracer's final message is the diagnosis (format below); the native team notifies you on completion — no polling.
- Hand off: pass the report to
fix, or escalate to the orchestrator.
Report Format
Root cause: <what's actually broken — file, line, condition>
Evidence: <reproduction steps, traces, proof>
Causal chain: <root cause → intermediate effects → observed symptom>
Recommended correction: <what to change, where, why>
Affected scope: <other files or features impacted>
Confidence: <high / medium / low>
Include file paths and line numbers in every root-cause claim so fix can act without re-investigating. If root cause spans multiple systems, report each separately with its own confidence level.
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 57 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A d1e32a5198d2
trace is a skill published in the GitHub repository automagik-dev/genie (334 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 795 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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