context-trace SKILL.md skillA
context-trace from ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst/context-trace@git:20260910.c4b91efPins git:20260910.c4b91ef in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst
- Path
.claude/skills/context-trace/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260910.c4b91ef, committed Sep 10, 2026
- Size
- 2,195 bytes
- Repository stars
- 322
- License
- MIT
Show which context the AI analyst would receive for a question, why each item was selected, how it is delivered, and which conflicts, stale items, or omissions need attention. Use when the user asks what context was loaded, why a definition did or did not reach an analysis, what the analyst knows about a question, or invokes /context-trace.
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
# Context trace
Build an evidence record before explaining the context.
1. Read `.knowledge/active.yaml` and confirm an active dataset exists.
2. Run the deterministic manifest builder. Replace the question and output path with the user's values:
```bash
python -m helpers.knowledge.context_manifest \
--project-root . \
--question "THE EXACT QUESTION" \
--output working/context-trace.json
```
When a live DuckDB path is available, add `--duckdb PATH`. This runs the schema guard and
excludes relevant items whose table shape no longer matches the reviewed snapshot. For another
warehouse, call `guard_context()` with the live connection and pass its result to
`build_context_manifest(quarantined=...)`.
3. Read `working/context-trace.md` and `working/context-trace.json`.
4. If `blocking` is true, stop the analysis and show the conflicting trusted definitions or
relevant schema quarantine. Ask for an approved decision or re-verification.
5. If a selected item is stale or missing a review date, name it before using it.
6. Explain the result in four parts:
- content: what information was supplied;
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst/context-trace@sha256:90909218ab85ab89The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260910.c4b91ef, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_v7aah2rthv2xgpvo)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 10, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2195 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
ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst · 322 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_v7aah2rthv2xgpvo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst/context-trace GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/90909218ab85ab8982768a85369c8d6b2d4fab0cfeba286924b97112db6b5147
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.