derekherman

Trace — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Find the contamination.

How to install Trace

Installs to ~/.claude/commands/derekherman-walter-trace.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/derekherman/walter/HEAD/.claude/commands/trace.md -o ~/.claude/commands/derekherman-walter-trace.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Trace does

name: trace description: Find the contamination. Systematic root cause analysis — trace from symptom to source. argument-hint: "[issue]"

/trace

Find the contamination source.

Intent

Something's broken. You're finding out why. Not guessing. Not patching symptoms. Tracing to the root cause and fixing it properly.

Load Skill

Load the `walter` skill first. Then read its `debugging`, `quality`, and `operations` references.

Start

$ARGUMENTS

If no issue was sp

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