tracer-bullets

v1.0.0

Ship the thinnest end-to-end slice through a system first, then widen it in place — for both software delivery and open-ended investigation/research. Use when scoping new work, de-risking unknowns, or planning how to explore an unfamiliar problem before committing to a full build.

Claude Code1 Skill

By Jordan RichlenLicense: MIT1 GitHub starsUpdated 2 hours ago

Directory evidence

Runtimes: Claude Code
Parsed components: 1 skill or MCP entry
Source updated: Sep 24, 2026
Manifest status: Canonical path parsed

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Install tracer-bullets for Claude Code

Installs for the current user

claude plugin marketplace add IchenDEV/agent-plugin-mkt
claude plugin marketplace update agent-plugin-marketplace
claude plugin install tracer-bullets@agent-plugin-marketplace

Paste and run these commands in a terminal with Claude Code. They add and refresh the PluginsMP catalog, then install this plugin.

The installer fetches third-party code from the source repository shown on this page. This directory validates manifest structure and source location, but does not perform a security audit; review the manifest, components, and source before installing.

Get the source manually

$ git clone https://github.com/JRichlen/agent-plugins

Clone the source repository, then follow its setup instructions to add the plugin to a compatible client. The plugin root is plugins/tracer-bullets/.

Plugin files

plugins/tracer-bullets/

├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
└── skills/tracer-bullets/SKILL.md

Included Skills1

tracer-bulletsskills/tracer-bullets/SKILL.md

Ship the thinnest possible end-to-end slice through a system (or a question) first, get it working for real, then widen it in place. Applies to software delivery (a skeleton request that really hits every layer: UI to DB to response) and to open-ended investigation/research (a skeleton pass that really touches every source: shallow-fetch every branch before deep-diving any one). Use when scoping new work, de-risking an unfamiliar problem before committing to a full build, or planning how to structure a multi-stage investigation — especially before reaching for a throwaway prototype/spike, since the two are easy to conflate and this skill exists to keep them apart.

Plugin manifests1

plugins/tracer-bullets/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

{
  "name": "tracer-bullets",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "Ship the thinnest end-to-end slice through a system first, then widen it in place — for both software delivery and open-ended investigation/research. Use when scoping new work, de-risking unknowns, or planning how to explore an unfamiliar problem before committing to a full build.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Jordan Richlen"
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/JRichlen/agent-plugins",
  "homepage": "https://github.com/JRichlen/agent-plugins/tree/main/plugins/tracer-bullets",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "tracer-bullets",
    "pragmatic-programmer",
    "scoping",
    "prototyping",
    "investigation",
    "research"
  ],
  "skills": "./skills/",
  "commands": "./commands/"
}

For maintainers

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[tracer-bullets on Agent Plugins Marketplace](https://pluginsmp.com/plugins/tracer-bullets)