A lightweight CLI and MCP tool that keeps your codebase coherent when AI tools help your engineers build. Open source, MIT licensed, and offered by Ekipa.
Your engineers are shipping more code, faster, with AI in the loop. The challenge appears between sessions, where silent breaking changes and context loss accumulate. Open each one below to see what it actually looks like on the ground.
AI modifies a core interface, silently breaking downstream dependencies across the project.
A development session ends at a context limit, leaving the AI with zero memory of where work stopped or why.
Tests get removed, documentation falls behind, and technical complexity creeps in unnoticed until production breaks.
The TRACE framework provides the engineering controls that catch these breakdowns before code reaches production.
TRACE relies on five core checks to verify AI codebase coherence:
Establishes one authoritative source per concept. When an anchor changes, all consumer dependencies update automatically.
Ensures documentation remains a verified, executable artifact rather than an outdated afterthought.
Implements tiered testing that expands over time — ensuring test suites never shrink during AI generation.
Enforces complexity thresholds auto-calibrated to your specific repository parameters.
Mandates explicit preconditions and postconditions for every change type.
Built as a single 53 KB compressed binary with zero dependencies, TRACE integrates seamlessly into existing developer workflows:
Language-agnostic (TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, Rust), tool-agnostic (Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot), and CI-agnostic (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins).
Functions as a native MCP server tool, allowing AI assistants to perform automated software integrity checks without human intervention.
Access the complete documentation on the TRACE Kit site and review the source code in the TRACE GitHub repository.
During an AI Delivery engagement, our forward-deployed engineers configure TRACE directly on your repository. Every prompt and build gate is instrumented for AI code verification, leaving behind a fully monitored environment for your internal team.
For engineering organizations already using AI coding tools, we offer a dedicated 2-day onsite TRACE Workshop to help staff engineers and tech leads establish architectural controls across their repositories.
TRACE executes locally with zero network calls and zero data collection. It analyzes repository structure rather than file contents, ensuring GDPR compliance, alignment with SOC2 data boundary requirements, and ISO 27001 integrity verification out of the box.
Book a 2-day technical training session for your staff engineers and tech leads to implement TRACE across your repositories.
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