trace

trace is a skill for Claude Code from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. It costs 84 tokens per session (4,703 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured debugging workflow for bugs, failed tests, runtime errors, broken builds, and reports that something does not work. It investigates the underlying cause before applying a fix and includes review steps afterward.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reproduce failures, collect evidence, rank possible causes, verify fixes, and review changes across the affected files.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of hiding symptoms with a patch that leaves the real problem in place. The workflow gathers evidence, tests possible causes, and checks that the final change fits the rest of the system.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the hyperflow plugin — 28 skills, 22 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to reproduce failures, collect evidence, rank possible causes, verify fixes, and review changes across the affected files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/trace
About the project

Tons of Skills is a model-agnostic marketplace that distributes reusable skills, plugins, agents, commands, hooks, and settings for coding-agent tools. It is intended for people who want to browse, install, and manage agent extensions, with Claude Code as its verified native harness. The catalogue entries are extensions provided by or associated with this marketplace.

jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace · 2,717 stars · on GitHub · tonsofskills.com

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 jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill trace
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hyperflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 22 agents.

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 trace

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/trace"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/trace/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for trace

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/trace"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/trace.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,703 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00084 $0.04703
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.02351
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00941
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00470

Measured 13d ago against content hash cf9da11a65a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

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 13d 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/ai-agency/hyperflow/skills/trace/SKILL.md · 343 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 343 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Trace

Root cause, not symptom. Never patch over a bug without understanding why it happened.

All agents inherit the session model. Reviewers and Debuggers bold-labeled; Workers plain.

Per-Step Agent Map (DOCTRINE rule 12)

Every substantive step dispatches at least one Agent. Atomic steps (per DOCTRINE 12.2.8) are a single Worker → Reviewer pair with no independent angles to fan out.

Step Status Workers Reviewers Notes
1 — Reproduce Atomic (12.2.8) Searcher Reviewer Runs if repro missing; single Worker→Reviewer pair
2 — Gather evidence Atomic (12.2.8) searcher specialist × 3 Reviewer 3 parallel Searchers → single Reviewer; one Worker-group→Reviewer pair
3 — Hypothesize Atomic (12.2.8) debugger specialist Reviewer Single Debugger (5 Whys + ranked hypotheses); may fan out Step 4 across hypotheses (rule 18)
4 — Verify 2 sub-phases Implementer × N Debugger · Reviewer 4a: parallel Implementers → Reviewer; 4b: Debugger re-evaluation → Reviewer
5 — Fix at root Atomic (12.2.8) Implementer × N Reviewer N Implementers (one per file) → Reviewer; single Worker-group→Reviewer pair
6 — Regression test Atomic (12.2.8) Writer Reviewer Single Writer → single Reviewer; no parallel angle
7 — Memory + final Atomic (12.2.8) Writer Reviewer Single Writer → integration Reviewer; no parallel angle

Step 1 — Reproduce

Atomic — single Searcher → Reviewer pair (DOCTRINE 12.2.8). No parallel angles: artifact retrieval is a single-scope search when the symptom is unknown.

If the user supplied a stack trace, test name, or log snippet — skip the Worker dispatch entirely (Step 1 is then trivially fulfilled by existing input; proceed to Step 2).

Otherwise dispatch Searcher — locating bug reproduction in recent changes/tests.

Collect: failing test name or command, error message, stack trace, log lines, recent commits touching the affected surface.

Read the full file on GitHub · 343 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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.

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. 13d ago First seen · 343 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A cf9da11a65a1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

trace is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace (2,717 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 4,703 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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