| name | discovering-tracedecay |
| description | 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. |
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.
