FankChen

Tracecrate — AI skill for Claude Code

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Local-first AI agent trace workbench.

How to install Tracecrate

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open FankChen/tracecrate and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Tracecrate does

Local-first AI agent trace workbench. Inspect Claude Code, Codex and OTLP logs, compare runs, and export privacy-conscious reports. No backend or API keys.

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README

TraceCrate — Your agent ran. Read what happened.

**A privacy-first, client-side AI trace workbench. Inspect the sequence, question the patterns, share deliberately.**

[![CI](https://github.com/FankChen/tracecrate/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/FankChen/tracecrate/actions/workflows/ci.yml) [![Pages](https://github.com/FankChen/tracecrate/actions/workflows/pages.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/FankChen/tracecrate/actions/workflows/pages.yml) [![Release v0.1.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/release-v0.1.0-blue)](https://github.com/FankChen/tracecrate/releases/tag/v0.1.0)

[简体中文](README.zh-CN.md) · [Format guide](docs/formats.md) · [Privacy](docs/privacy.md) · [Contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md)

![Synthetic demo screenshot: TraceCrate's recorded metrics, timeline, and selected tool event on the live site.](docs/screenshots/tracecrate-desktop.png)

*Actual live-site screenshot, visually reviewed; 1440 × 2026 full page. All events and values are synthetic demo data, not benchmark results.*

TraceCrate turns files you choose into a searchable timeline, recorded metrics, heuristic diagnostics, and side-by-side comparisons. No backend, no telemetry, no accounts, no API keys. It reads traces; it does not run agents or execute recorded commands.

**[Open the live demo](https://fankchen.github.io/tracecrate/)** · **[v0.1.0 release](https://github.com/FankChen/tracecrate/releases/tag/v0.1.0)** · **[Contribute](CONTRIBUTING.md)** · [Source on GitHub](https://github.com/FankChen/tracecrate). Explore synthetic runs without installing anything, or run locally below.

Try the story in 30 seconds

Open the [hosted demo](https://fankchen.github.io/tracecrate/) and follow the walkthrough below. Local use requires **Node.js ≥22.12 (24 recommended)** and npm:

git clone https://github.com/FankChen/tracecrate.git
cd tracecrate
npm ci
npm run dev

For local use, open the address printed by Vite. Installation time is separate from the 30-second walkth