---
name: discovering-tracedecay
description: Find the supported TraceDecay operation for a code-intelligence, memory, or administration task.
---

# Discovering TraceDecay

Use live tool descriptions and `tracedecay tool <name> --help` for available
operations and arguments. Load a deferred schema when needed. This is capability
discovery, not a prerequisite for ordinary reads, local edits, or clarification.

Choose by the missing evidence: exploration locates code; tracing follows call
relationships; impact connects changes to dependents and tests; review evaluates
a diff; editing handles structural mutation. Durable facts and raw session
history have separate stores and retrieval workflows. When the moment is clear
and the tool is not, read `routing-tracedecay` and make the one call it names.

MCP and the generic CLI adapt the same daemon operations. A failed MCP transport
does not establish daemon failure; see `using-the-cli` when transport matters.

For project and multi-root identity, configuration changes, Context Scout
controls, or storage recovery, read
[administration authority](references/administration-authority.md).