Check Traceability — Design skill for Claude Code
Verify links from use cases and requirements to design, code, tests, and releases.
How to install Check Traceability
Installs to ~/.claude/commands/jmagly-transcribe-cli-check-traceability.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jmagly/transcribe-cli/HEAD/.claude/commands/check-traceability.md -o ~/.claude/commands/jmagly-transcribe-cli-check-traceability.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Check Traceability does
description: Verify links from use cases and requirements to design, code, tests, and releases category: documentation-tracking argument-hint: allowed-tools: Read, Write, Glob, Grep model: sonnet
Check Traceability (SDLC)
Task
Analyze the traceability matrix and report gaps:
- Missing tests for critical use cases
- Requirements without design/code links
- Closed defects not linked back to a requirement/use case
Output
- `traceability-gap-report.md
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