What problem does it solve?
This skill helps explain why an observed behavior or result happened by turning ambiguity into competing hypotheses and evidence-backed conclusions.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Evidence-ranked hypothesis tracing: preserve clear distinctions between the observation, hypotheses, evidence for/against, the current best explanation, and the critical unknown.
- Team-mode parallel investigation: orchestrate built-in
tracer lanes (default 3) to gather evidence for and against different explanations in parallel.
- Falsification-first rigor: require top hypotheses to be challenged via predictions, disconfirmation rules, and a rebuttal round before finalizing rankings.
- Discriminating next probe: produce the single highest-value next step that would collapse uncertainty fastest, not a generic fix loop.
- Use cases: runtime regressions, performance/latency behavior, architecture and orchestration root-cause analysis, and science/experimental result tracing.
Quick Start
Use the trace skill to explain why an outcome occurred by running it with your key observation: take the observation you saw and ask the AI to trace it, for example, “/trace <observation to trace>”.