traceability-export

traceability-export is a skill for Claude Code from SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices. It costs 45 tokens per session (578 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for exporting a feature’s traceability matrix, which links requirements to design decisions and tests, as a CSV or Markdown file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create traceability exports for a feature in CSV or Markdown format.
Why use it?
It makes those links easier to inspect, share, and use for audits or project reviews.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the sdlc-programme plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create traceability exports for a feature in CSV or Markdown format.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stevegjones/ai-first-sdlc-practices/traceability-export
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 SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices --skill traceability-export
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sdlc-programme, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 578 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 $0.00045 $0.00578
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00231
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00058

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 22ebc170b582, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

traceability-export 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 1mo 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/sdlc-programme/skills/traceability-export/SKILL.md · 86 lines

What it actually says

Export Traceability Matrix

Produce an audit-friendly REQ↔DES↔TEST traceability matrix.

Arguments

  • <format> — csv or markdown
  • <feature-id> — short slug for the feature
  • [output-path] — optional. Defaults to docs/specs/<feature-id>/traceability.<ext> where .ext is .csv or .md.

Steps

FORMAT="$1"
FEATURE_ID="$2"
OUTPUT_PATH="${3:-}"

if [ -z "$FORMAT" ] || [ -z "$FEATURE_ID" ]; then
    echo "Usage: traceability-export <format> <feature-id> [output-path]" >&2
    exit 1
fi

case "$FORMAT" in
    csv|markdown) ;;
    *)
        echo "format must be one of: csv, markdown" >&2
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

FEATURE_DIR="docs/specs/$FEATURE_ID"

if [ -z "$OUTPUT_PATH" ]; then
    case "$FORMAT" in
        csv) OUTPUT_PATH="$FEATURE_DIR/traceability.csv" ;;
        markdown) OUTPUT_PATH="$FEATURE_DIR/traceability.md" ;;
    esac
fi

python3 << PYEOF
from pathlib import Path
from sdlc_programme_scripts.programme.traceability import (
    TraceabilityError, export_csv, export_markdown,
)

format = "$FORMAT"
feature_id = "$FEATURE_ID"
feature_dir = Path("$FEATURE_DIR")
output_path = Path("$OUTPUT_PATH")

try:
    if format == "csv":
        text = export_csv(feature_dir, feature_id)
    elif format == "markdown":
        text = export_markdown(feature_dir, feature_id)
except TraceabilityError as e:
    print(f"ERROR: {e}", flush=True)
    raise SystemExit(1)

output_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
output_path.write_text(text)
print(f"Wrote {format} traceability matrix to {output_path}")
PYEOF

Done

Report:

  • Format used (csv or markdown)
  • Output path
  • Number of REQ rows in the matrix
  • Any orphan REQs (declared but no DES/TEST satisfying them) — these are coverage gaps the team should resolve

Model selection

This skill runs deterministic Python helpers. Smaller models are sufficient.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 86 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 22ebc170b582

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traceability-export is a skill published in the GitHub repository SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices (41 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 578 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.