root-cause-tracing

root-cause-tracing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,367 once invoked), scanned A, original, GPL-3.0.

A debugging method for tracing an error backward through the call stack to find the original trigger.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate deep execution failures and add instrumentation while tracing their origin.
Why use it?
It helps locate the source of invalid data or incorrect behaviour when the visible error appears far from the cause.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

not rated 1.7krepo +141 14d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 47 tokens GPL-3.0

Good fit Use it to investigate deep execution failures and add instrumentation while tracing their origin.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/neolabhq/context-engineering-kit/root-cause-tracing
About the project

Context Engineering Kit is a collection of skills, agents, hooks, instructions, commands, and plugins that shape how coding agents use context and carry out development work. It is for developers using Claude Code and other supported coding agents who want more predictable results. The catalogue entries are components from this collection.

NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit · 1,682 stars · on GitHub · neolab.gitbook.io

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 NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit --skill root-cause-tracing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,367 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
  • Socket pass 23 Apr 2026
  • Snyk pass 23 Apr 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00047 $0.01367
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00683
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00273
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00137

Measured 7d ago against content hash 2d59c187253c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

root-cause-tracing 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.

antigravity/skills/root-cause-tracing/SKILL.md · 189 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

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. 7d ago First seen · 189 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 2d59c187253c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

root-cause-tracing is a skill published in the GitHub repository NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit (1,682 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,367 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.