read-the-trace

read-the-trace is a skill for Claude Code from elitongadotti/cockpit. It costs 29 tokens per session (197 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A crash-debugging guide that uses the details in a stack trace—the record showing where a program failed—to find the likely cause.

In plain words
What is it for?
Investigating crashes and exceptions in an application.
Why use it?
It helps avoid guessing based only on the type of error.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter.

Part of the cockpit plugin — 12 skills, 1 agent, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Investigating crashes and exceptions in an application.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elitongadotti/cockpit/read-the-trace
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 elitongadotti/cockpit --skill read-the-trace
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elitongadotti/cockpit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cockpit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 1 agent, 2 hooks.

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.

agentmods badge for read-the-trace

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 197 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 unknown 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 $0.00029 $0.00197
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00098
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00039
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00020

Measured 9d ago against content hash a8cd91eb9486, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

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 9d 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.

plugins/cockpit/skills/read-the-trace/SKILL.md · 13 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 13 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A a8cd91eb9486

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read-the-trace is a skill published in the GitHub repository elitongadotti/cockpit (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. 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 2026-08-31.

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