trace

trace is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Master0fFate/parallax-claudecode. It costs 16 tokens per session (206 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for viewing or exporting the current Claude session's Parallax trace. The trace is an audit record of protocol steps, changes, checks, and findings rather than private reasoning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to summarize protocol phases and verification evidence, or export the trace and report its artifact path and score. It requires the current session ID.
Why use it?
It makes the session's work and verification evidence reviewable without treating an unrun check as successful. It also prevents using an unrelated session's trace.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the parallax-claudecode plugin — 9 skills, 1 command, 4 agents, 12 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/master0ffate/parallax-claudecode/trace
Any agent
npx skills add Master0fFate/parallax-claudecode --skill trace
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Master0fFate/parallax-claudecode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install parallax-claudecode, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 command, 4 agents, 12 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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
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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 206 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 $0.00016 $0.00206
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00103
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00041
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00021

Measured 4d ago against content hash 4c7c7c7dcbef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

skills/trace/SKILL.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Trace

Use only the current Claude session ID; never infer or reuse another session. For $ARGUMENTS:

  • view (default): call parallax_trace_view and summarize protocol phases, write batches, verification evidence, and coherence findings.
  • export: call parallax_trace_export, then report the exact artifact path and score.

A trace is an audit record, not hidden chain-of-thought. Report concise decisions, observations, tool outcomes, and evidence. Do not invent missing phases or represent an unrun check as passing. If the session is ambiguous or absent, return the tool's recovery guidance.

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 · 17 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 4c7c7c7dcbef

Subscribe to this mod's changes

trace is a skill published in the GitHub repository Master0fFate/parallax-claudecode (0 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 206 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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