Designed for Claude Code
Your work becomes reusable. Automatically.
Skilltrace is a Claude Code plugin that silently watches your coding sessions and converts completed tasks into replayable, self-contained skills — without you lifting a finger.
Skills are the most powerful invention in agentic AI. They turn one-time work into reusable knowledge. So I asked myself: why not leverage them at every possible opportunity?
But here's the catch — every time I set up auth, configured a CI pipeline, or wired up an MCP server, I knew that knowledge would evaporate at the end of the session. Next time, I'd start from scratch. Same research, same trial and error, same cost. I wanted to capture everything, but I also just wanted to work on my projects. Writing skills means stopping, reflecting, documenting steps, structuring files — it's a second job on top of the actual job. I was spending more time writing skills than building things.
So I thought: why am I doing this when AI can do it for me?
That's how Skilltrace was born.
Skilltrace is a silent assistant that works alongside you. It doesn't interrupt. It doesn't pollute your context. It doesn't ask questions.
While you focus on your project, Skilltrace runs in the background:
- Observes your conversations and tool usage across sessions
- Detects when meaningful, reproducible work is completed
- Generates specific, self-contained skills with exact steps, commands, and file paths
- Versions skills automatically when your approach evolves
- Organizes everything by project, searchable and ready to replay
You work. It learns. Your effort compounds.
- Stop reinventing the wheel — what you build once becomes a reusable recipe forever
- Cut costs — skills let Claude replay proven approaches in seconds instead of reasoning from scratch every session
- Share knowledge — skills are portable files; drop them in a shared folder and your entire team benefits
- Never start from zero — every project feeds your skill library; the more you use Claude, the faster it gets
claude plugin add /path/to/skilltraceThat's it. Skilltrace activates on your next session. On first run, it introduces itself and asks if you want to enable tracking for the current project.
| When | What happens |
|---|---|
| Session starts | Skilltrace activates silently via hook |
| You work normally | Code, debug, build, deploy — no interruptions |
| After each prompt | Background agent evaluates if meaningful work was completed |
| Skill-worthy task detected | Skill generated automatically, stored in ~/.claude/skills/ |
| Session ends | Final check — nothing missed |
No configuration. No context pollution. No extra prompts. Just work.
- Zero overhead — runs via hooks, never touches your main conversation
- Per-project tracking — opt-in per directory, each project gets its own skill library
- Smart versioning — skills evolve with your approach; old versions archived, not lost
- Specific skills — not "how to set up auth" but "setting up NextJS auth with Clerk and Drizzle ORM"
- Self-contained — every skill is a complete recipe, replayable with zero prior context
- Skill inventory — browse, search, and inspect all skills across projects
- Pause/resume — disable tracking anytime with
/skilltrace:pause - Cross-platform — works on macOS, Linux, and Windows
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/skilltrace:skills |
List all skills with descriptions, versions, and project info |
/skilltrace:status |
Show tracking status and skill counts |
/skilltrace:pause |
Pause activity tracking |
/skilltrace:resume |
Resume activity tracking |
/skilltrace:reindex |
Rebuild skill registry from files on disk |
skilltrace/
├── .claude-plugin/
│ └── plugin.json # Plugin manifest
├── hooks/
│ ├── hooks.json # Hook definitions (SessionStart, UserPromptSubmit, SessionEnd)
│ └── wrapper.sh # Cross-platform dispatcher
├── src/
│ ├── cli.py # CLI entry point (13 commands)
│ ├── config.py # Enable/disable, configuration
│ ├── registry.py # Skill registry CRUD
│ ├── shared.py # Atomic file ops, project ID management
│ ├── skill_ops.py # Skill creation, versioning, archiving
│ └── transcript.py # Session transcript scraper
├── agents/
│ └── skill-checker.md # Background agent that evaluates and generates skills
├── commands/ # Slash commands (pause, resume, status, skills, reindex)
└── skills/
└── skilltrace-manage/ # Built-in skill for managing generated skills
- Claude Code CLI
- Python 3.10+
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MIT
Stop writing skills. Start working. Let Skilltrace handle the rest.