phx-trace

phx-trace is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix. It costs 36 tokens per session (580 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A call-tracing tool for Elixir that maps which functions lead to a chosen function, starting from entry points such as controllers, LiveView callbacks, workers, or GenServer callbacks. It uses Mix xref, an Elixir dependency-analysis command, to build the trace.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to follow data flow, investigate runtime errors, and find every caller affected by a function-signature change.
Why use it?
It helps explain where a value or bug comes from and shows all callers before you change a function's arguments. This is useful when a stack trace is incomplete or the problem is hard to reproduce.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to follow data flow, investigate runtime errors, and find every caller affected by a function-signature change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix/phx-trace
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix --skill phx-trace
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 580 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 $0.00036 $0.00580
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00290
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00058

Measured 5d ago against content hash 4248059466fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

phx-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 5d 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.

targets/amp/skills/phx-trace/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Call Tracing

Build call trees showing how functions are reached from entry points.

Iron Laws - Never Violate These

  1. Always use mix xref callers first - It's authoritative; grep is fallback only
  2. Stop at entry points - Controllers, LiveView callbacks, Oban workers, GenServer callbacks
  3. Track visited MFAs - Prevent infinite loops from circular calls
  4. Extract argument patterns - Just knowing "who calls" isn't enough; HOW they call matters
  5. Max depth 10 - Deeper trees indicate architectural issues, not useful traces

When to Build Call Tree (Use Proactively)

Condition Why Call Tree Helps
Unexpected nil/value at runtime Trace where the value originates
Bug can't reproduce locally See all entry points that reach the code
Changing function signature Find all callers and their argument patterns
Incomplete stack trace Get full path context
"Where does X come from?" Visual answer to data flow question

Quick Trace

Run the caller query first, then inspect another function in the chain as needed:

mix xref callers MyApp.Accounts.update_user/2
mix xref callers MyApp.Accounts.get_user/1

Read the reported locations to see argument patterns.

Entry Points (Stop Here)

Pattern Type
def mount/3, def handle_event/3 LiveView
def index/2, def show/2, def create/2 Controller
def perform(%Oban.Job{}) Oban Worker
def handle_call/3, def handle_cast/2 GenServer

Full Recursive Trace

Trace controller, LiveView, worker, and internal entry-point categories in this session, starting each category with mix xref callers. Native generic workers may handle independent categories in parallel when the runtime provides them, but the same-session sequential path is fully supported and must produce the same call tree. Do not require a named custom agent or Claude-specific spawn configuration.

Output Location

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 5d ago First seen · 69 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 4248059466fb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

phx-trace is a skill published in the GitHub repository oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix (541 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 580 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.

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