trace SKILL.md skillA

trace from naimkatiman/continuous-improvement is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/trace@git:20260906.bface5c

Pins git:20260906.bface5c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
naimkatiman/continuous-improvement
Path
third-party/oh-my-claudecode/skills/trace/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260906.bface5c, committed Sep 6, 2026
First version recorded
May 3, 2026
Size
10,381 bytes
Repository stars
9
License
MIT

Evidence-driven tracing lane that orchestrates competing tracer hypotheses in Claude built-in team mode.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Trace Skill

Use this skill for ambiguous, causal, evidence-heavy questions where the goal is to explain **why** an observed result happened, not to jump directly into fixing or rewriting code.

This is the orchestration layer on top of the built-in `tracer` agent. The goal is to make tracing feel like a reusable OMC operating lane: restate the observation, generate competing explanations, gather evidence in parallel, rank the explanations, and propose the next probe that would collapse uncertainty fastest.

## Good entry cases

Use `/oh-my-claudecode:trace` when the problem is:

- ambiguous
- causal
- evidence-heavy
- best answered by exploring competing explanations in parallel

Examples:
- runtime bugs and regressions
- performance / latency / resource behavior
- architecture / premortem / postmortem analysis
- scientific or experimental result tracing
- config / routing / orchestration behavior explanation
- “given this output, trace back the likely causes”

## Core tracing contract

Always preserve these distinctions:

1. **Observation** -- what was actually observed
2. **Hypotheses** -- competing explanations
3. **Evidence For** -- what supports each explanation
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/trace@sha256:e82ccaa563f70380

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260906.bface5c, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 3, 2026 and Sep 6, 2026, about one every 127 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10381 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

naimkatiman/continuous-improvement · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_t2uoulldxpwcr76l
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/trace
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e82ccaa563f703803ad92093766ada969188df44b9ee91298a26b8c3d0792b0e

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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