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Trace MCP

by nikolai-vysotskyi

Trace MCP is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by nikolai-vysotskyi in trace-mcp.

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Install Trace MCP
Copy Trace MCP 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/nikolai-vysotskyi/trace-mcp/tree/master/skills/trace-mcp ~/.claude/skills/trace-mcp

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/nikolai-vysotskyi/trace-mcp.git

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

In this catalog

Source file
skills/trace-mcp/SKILL.md in nikolai-vysotskyi/trace-mcp
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/trace-mcp
Collection
One of 4 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Trace MCP does

Trace MCP routes code exploration through a framework-aware dependency graph instead of file-by-file search. Use it to find symbols, trace impact, inspect call flows, and gather task context before editing code.

Trace MCP is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Trace MCP comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude, claude-ai, claude-code and claude-code-plugin.

Documentation

README

trace-mcp — Code Intelligence Routing

trace-mcp is a framework-aware code intelligence MCP server. It exposes 181 tools that return semantic, structured results over a cross-language dependency graph. When trace-mcp is available, it is almost always cheaper and more accurate than native file tools.

When to Use

Activate this skill whenever you need to:

  • Find a function, class, method, route, component, or any symbol
  • Understand a file, module, or feature before editing
  • Determine what breaks if you change something
  • Trace a request flow, call graph, or data flow
  • Audit architecture, dead code, tests, or security

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

Frequently asked about Trace MCP

  • What else does nikolai-vysotskyi publish alongside Trace MCP?

    Trace MCP is one of 4 skills that DirSkills catalogs from nikolai-vysotskyi/trace-mcp, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Trace MCP Codemod, Trace MCP Pre-Commit and Trace Mcp Refactoring. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Trace MCP does, and is maintained by nikolai-vysotskyi in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the nikolai-vysotskyi/trace-mcp page.

  • How does Trace MCP compare to other AI Engineering skills?

    Trace MCP ranks #3275 by stars among the 3670 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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 Trace MCP against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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