Trace My Code

Build and maintain a living trace of a codebase — the domain flow plus the underlying code structure and patterns — as curated Markdown that gives a coding agent the right, always-current context to develop features, follow existing patterns, and refactor safely without re-reading the whole repo. Use this whenever you map or document how a feature/flow works end to end, author or update a DOMAIN/ARCHITECTURE/DATA_FLOW doc or an ADR, record an architecture decision, onboard to or trace an unfamiliar area, link a service's docs to the services it talks to, or refresh docs after code changed — ev

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add kgohil/trace-my-code --skill trace-my-code

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kgohil/trace-my-code.git /tmp/trace-my-code
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/trace-my-code/skills/trace-my-code ~/.claude/skills/trace-my-code

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From the SKILL.md

# Trace My Code

**What it is:** an agentic loop that keeps a **trace of your system** — the
**domain flow** (what happens, in what order, under which conditions) layered over
the **code structure and patterns** (where it lives, how it's built, why) — as
curated, navigable Markdown. The trace is the context a coding agent reads instead
of re-deriving the system from raw files on every task.

Inspired by [Andrej Karpathy's "LLM Wiki" idea](https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f)
— an LLM-compiled, interlinked **knowledge-graph wiki** kept current by an agent —
applied here to a codebase instead of a research corpus.

**Why it pays off:**

- **Feature development** — an agent plans a change from the trace (flow + files +
  gotchas) in a couple of reads instead of crawling dozens of files and guessing.
- **Pattern adherence** — the trace records established patterns and the _why_ (ADRs),
  so new code follows them instead of inventing a parallel approach.
- **Refactor / restructure** — knowing the real end-to-end flow and its invariants up
  front makes large refactors safe; you change with the contract in view.
- **Always current** — a drift check (git hook or CI) flags or refreshes the trace
  when the code it describes changes, so it never quietly rots into a lie.

**Proven across repos.** Bootstrapped on a ~100k-line Next.js app, the trace measures (via the

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Details

Skill name: trace-my-code
Repository: kgohil/trace-my-code
Path: skills/trace-my-code/SKILL.md
License: MIT
Repo updated: 9 August 2026
Listed in: karanb192/awesome-claude-skills

FAQ

What does the Trace My Code skill do?

How do I install the Trace My Code skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add kgohil/trace-my-code --skill trace-my-code. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

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It lives in kgohil/trace-my-code, which has 4 GitHub stars and 0 forks, and is included in 1 curated skill list.

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