# event-trace

Turns one Claude session into an ordered timeline of its events, flagging gaps, failures and tool calls that never finished.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 1121
- Author: hoangsonww
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor/tree/HEAD/plugins/ccam-devtools/skills/event-trace/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/event-trace

## What it does

Give the skill a session id and it pulls that session's history from the Agent Monitor dashboard. Passing `latest` or `last` makes it resolve the newest session on its own, while `errors` points it at the most recent one with status `error`. Three endpoints feed the report: `GET /api/sessions?limit=N`, `GET /api/sessions/:id` and `GET /api/events?session_id=X`.

The result is a markdown table with one row per event: index, time, delta from the previous event, event type, tool name and a short summary. A second block carries the annotations — a wait longer than 30 seconds between events, a `PreToolUse` with no matching `PostToolUse`, errors from `APIError`, compaction, and a missing `SessionStart` at the head or `Stop`/`SessionEnd` at the tail. The report closes with a one-line verdict: clean, gaps detected, or failures present.

The dashboard has to be running. Without it the skill has nothing to read and will tell you to start it with `npm start` from the repo root. Costs appear in USD with four decimals.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor --skill event-trace -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/event-trace/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/event-trace/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor --skill event-trace -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/event-trace/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor --skill event-trace -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/event-trace/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor event-trace
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/event-trace/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor --skill event-trace -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor --path plugins/ccam-devtools/skills/event-trace
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/event-trace/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor --skill event-trace -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor/tree/HEAD/plugins/ccam-devtools/skills/event-trace/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- walk through what a session actually did, step by step
- find a tool call that started but never completed
- spot a pause longer than 30 seconds in agent activity
- read an API error message next to the events around it
- check whether session start and end events went missing

## Example prompts
- Trace the event timeline for session `latest`
- Break down session `errors` and show where it failed
- Build an event report for session `abc123` with gap annotations

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: event-trace
description: >
  Trace the full event chain for one Claude Code session into an ordered
  timeline of every event type with tool_name and summary, highlighting gaps,
  out-of-order events, and failures. Reads /api/events?session_id= and
  /api/sessions/:id from the Agent Monitor dashboard. Use when debugging what a
  session actually did, step by step.
---

# Event Trace

Build a chronological, annotated event timeline for a single session.

## Input

The user provides: **$ARGUMENTS**

This is a session ID. It may also be:
- `latest` / `last` — trace the most recently updated session
- `errors` — trace the most recent session whose status is `error`

## Data Sources

| Endpoint | Returns |
|----------|---------|
| `GET /api/sessions?limit=N` | session list (used to resolve `latest`/`errors` and the target id) |
| `GET /api/sessions/:id` | full session detail (status, model, cwd, started_at, ended_at, cost, nested agents + events) |
| `GET /api/events?session_id=X` | the ordered event stream: event_type, tool_name, summary, data, timestamp |

## Report Sections

### 1. Resolve the session
If `$ARGUMENTS` is a raw id, use it. If `latest`/`last`, call
`GET /api/sessions?limit=1`. If `errors`, call
`GET /api/sessions?limit=10&status=error` and pick the newest. Confirm the id
resolves via `GET /api/sessions/:id`; if not, report it as missing and stop.

### 2. Session header
From `GET /api/sessions/:id`: id, status, model, cwd, started_at → ended_at,
total duration, cost (USD to 4 decimals), and counts (events, agents).

### 3. Ordered timeline
From `GET /api/events?session_id=X`, list every event in timestamp order. One row
per event:

`| # | time | Δ since prev | event_type | tool_name | summary |`

Cover all event types present: SessionStart, PreToolUse, PostToolUse, Stop,
SubagentStop, Compaction, APIError, TurnDuration, Notification, SessionEnd.

### 4. Gap & failure highlights
Annotate the timeline:
- **Gaps**: any Δ > 30s between consecutive events — mark ⏳ and note the wait.
- **Unpaired tool calls**: a PreToolUse with no matching PostToolUse (same
  tool_name, next in stream) — mark ⚠️ "no completion recorded".
- **Failures**: APIError events and PostToolUse whose `summary`/`data` indicates
  an error — mark ❌ with the error text.
- **Compaction**: mark ♻️ and note it resets the visible token baseline.
- **Missing bookends**: no SessionStart at the head or no Stop/SessionEnd at the
  tail of an ended session — mark 🚩.

### 5. Verdict
One line: CLEAN, GAPS DETECTED, or FAILURES PRESENT — with the count of each
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