Signal Trace

Signal Trace is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by juanandresgs in claude-ctrl.

192 stars28 forkson juanandresgs/claude-ctrlAdded 2026/09/06Repository updated 2026/08/07

ai-codingclaude-codeclaude-code-configclaude-code-hooksdeprecateddeveloper-toolsmulti-agentsdlcsoftware-engineeringunmaintained

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Install Signal Trace

Copy Signal Trace into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/juanandresgs/claude-ctrl/tree/main/skills/signal-trace ~/.claude/skills/signal-trace

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/juanandresgs/claude-ctrl.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/signal-trace/SKILL.md in juanandresgs/claude-ctrl
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/signal-trace
Collection: One of 10 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1745 skills

What Signal Trace does

Signal Trace traces broken signals through hooks, state, and dispatch paths to find where data breaks, races, or turns to garbage. Use it when an agent reads the wrong context, output goes stale, or a systemic bug is blamed on behavior.

Signal Trace is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Signal Trace comes from a repository tagged ai-coding, claude-code, claude-code-config, claude-code-hooks and deprecated.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Signal Trace: Systemic Brittleness Analysis

When something misbehaves in the hook/agent/dispatch system, trace the actual data flow from producer to consumer. Find where signals break, race, or carry garbage. Produce a single-gate fix — never a fallback chain.

When to use this

An agent grabbed wrong context, read the wrong trace, or got stale data
A hook produced empty/wrong output and nobody noticed
A dispatch path silently degraded (data present but garbage)
Someone hand-waved a systemic issue as "model behavior"

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Signal Trace provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/signal-trace

Frequently asked about Signal Trace

What else does juanandresgs publish alongside Signal Trace?
Signal Trace is one of 10 skills that DirSkills catalogs from juanandresgs/claude-ctrl, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Codex Result Handling, Codex Runtime and Context Preservation. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Signal Trace does, and is maintained by juanandresgs in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the juanandresgs/claude-ctrl page.
How does Signal Trace compare to other Quality skills?
Signal Trace ranks #1587 by stars among the 1745 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Signal Trace against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.