discovering-tracedecay

Use when asking what TraceDecay can do, which TraceDecay tool, skill, command, or workflow fits a task, or how to discover capabilities when MCP is absent or optional.

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Repository: ScriptedAlchemy/tracedecay
Last source activity: August 24, 2026 at 05:03
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Discovering TraceDecay

Treat skills as workflow guidance and the CLI or MCP as interchangeable tool transports. MCP is optional: capability discovery must work from a shell alone.

Discovery ladder

Run tracedecay tool to list every tool by category with a one-line summary. Scan the relevant category; do not guess tool names.

Run tracedecay tool <name> --help for the selected tool's exact arguments, types, enum values, and examples.

Run tracedecay --help for lifecycle commands such as init, sync, doctor, daemon, sessions, analytics, automation, and upgrade. Then inspect one command with tracedecay <command> --help.

Choose the smallest matching workflow and continue with its skill:

Intent

Workflow skill

Locate or understand code

tracedecay:exploring-code

Trace calls or assess blast radius

tracedecay:tracing-functions / tracedecay:assessing-impact

Review or edit code

tracedecay:reviewing-changes / tracedecay:editing-safely

Recover decisions or session history

tracedecay:project-memory / tracedecay:managing-session-context

Diagnose adoption or host health

tracedecay:diagnosing-analytics / tracedecay doctor

Fix compiler or type errors

tracedecay:fixing-build-and-type-errors

Rules

Prefer live --help output over remembered flags; the installed binary is the source of truth.

Do not query TraceDecay databases directly to discover capabilities.

Do not dump the entire catalog into the answer. Name the selected workflow, exact command or tool, and why it matches.

Once a tool is selected, use MCP when available or the identical tracedecay tool <name> CLI surface when it is not. See tracedecay:using-the-cli for argument construction.

Deliverable

Return the chosen skill or workflow, the exact next command/tool, and one-line reason. If no capability fits, say what is missing instead of inventing one.