What the two tools can see. mcpsnoop shows MCP calls live, tracecrate reads the logs, and nothing else. Your agent. fifteen minutes, alone. MCP calls. Logs. Claude Code, Codex. mcpsnoop. live. tracecrate. two runs compared. No MCP, no log?. invisible to both. While it works : MCP calls, mcpsnoop. Afterwards : Logs, tracecrate. Your agent → MCP calls (calls). Your agent → Logs (writes). MCP calls → mcpsnoop (pass through). Logs → tracecrate (read by). mcpsnoop → No MCP, no log? (can't see). tracecrate → No MCP, no log? (can't see).