repotracer

Repotracer — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

A repo investigator for Claude Code and Codex.

How to install Repotracer

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

What Repotracer does

A repo investigator for Claude Code and Codex. Offload codebase investigation and get up to 2.7× as much work from the same limits.

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README

A repo investigator for Claude Code and Codex.

RepoTracer has a separate agent investigate the repo and report back to Claude Code or Codex.

Up to 2.7× as much work from the same limits · up to 25% faster
When the outputs of the two runs differed in quality, RepoTracer produced the better result.
Same task, model, repo, and timeout. RepoTracer usage included. See every run.

Claude Code · Codex · MCP · MIT

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Demo

Same task · same model · same repo · same timeout · RepoTracer investigator usage included

npx repotracer@latest setup

What changes

![Without RepoTracer, Claude Code or Codex investigates, reasons, implements, and verifies in one conversation. With RepoTracer, a separate conversation investigates the repo and reports back.](assets/readme-what-changes.svg)

**Without RepoTracer**, every search and file read stays in the same conversation and counts against the same limits the coding agent later uses to implement the change.

**With RepoTracer**, RepoTracer runs the investigation in a separate conversation and reports back to the coding agent.