install-zymtrace-backend

install-zymtrace-backend is a skill for Claude Code from zystem-io/zymtrace-skills. It costs 164 tokens per session (5,408 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An installation guide for the zymtrace backend, the server system that receives CPU and GPU profiling data. Profiling data records where a program uses processing time and resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install zymtrace with Kubernetes and Helm or with Docker Compose, including air-gapped setups and secure gRPC/TLS access.
Why use it?
It helps choose and configure the required services, storage, license, network access, and installation method.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the zymtrace plugin — 10 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to install zymtrace with Kubernetes and Helm or with Docker Compose, including air-gapped setups and secure gRPC/TLS access.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add zystem-io/zymtrace-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install zymtrace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install zymtrace, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 164 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,408 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00164 $0.05408
Opus 5 $0.00082 $0.02704
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.01082
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00541

Measured 11d ago against content hash 620944bed4ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

install-zymtrace-backend scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/verify-backend.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -fsI http://localhost:8080 | head -1 # sanity check
zymtrace/skills/install-zymtrace-backend/SKILL.md · 348 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 348 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Install zymtrace Backend

Helps the user install the zymtrace backend — gateway, ingest, web, symdb, identity, UI, migrate, plus data stores (ClickHouse, Postgres, S3-compatible object storage).

The profiler agent is a separate install (install-zymtrace-profiler skill). This skill is only the backend that receives data.

Deep details, secret-creation commands, Docker Compose, and air-gapped live in ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/install-zymtrace-backend/reference.md — read it when the decision tree points you there.

Greet the user (start here)

Before any commands or questions, open with a warm welcome. Adapt to context, but always cover: a thank-you, the support channels, and a quick map of what's coming. Sample:

👋 Thanks for choosing zymtrace! I'll walk you through installing the backend — the platform that ingests your CPU/GPU profiling data, surfaces optimization insights, and serves the UI.

If you get stuck at any point, reach out:

Tip — analyze GPU and CPU flamegraphs via MCP: once zymtrace is running, connect the zymtrace MCP to your agent (Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor) — see configure-zymtrace-mcp — and analyze GPU + CPU flamegraphs in natural language. Docs: https://docs.zymtrace.com/mcp

Here's the plan:

  1. Verify your tools (helm, kubectl) and resolve cluster / namespace.
  2. Check whether you already have a values file — if not, we'll build one together.
  3. Install, verify, then start a quick port-forward so you can see the UI right away.
  4. Decide on long-term exposure (NodePort / ALB / NGINX / Cloud LB).
  5. Hand off to the profiler install so you have data to look at.

Ready when you are — let's start.

Trim the greeting if the user has already given you specifics (cluster, values file, target version). Always include the support links once per session.

Read the full file on GitHub · 348 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. 11d ago First seen · 348 lines · 164 tokens per session scan A 620944bed4ee

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install-zymtrace-backend is a skill published in the GitHub repository zystem-io/zymtrace-skills (5 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 164 tokens to every session and 5,408 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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