> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.bijection.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# bijection trace

> Follow one operation request through its owners' retained records

## bijection trace

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Follow one operation request through its owners' retained records

Usage:
  bijection trace <request> [flags]

Flags:
      --as string           Act as a person, such as alice, on a development, preview or local deployment. Production refuses development identities.
      --branch string       Use a branch under your current business identity.
      --deployment string   Inspect definitions in a specific deployment. Accepts:
                            • a deployment name (e.g. joyful-capybara-123)
                            • a deployment reference (e.g. dev/james, staging)
                            • dev (for your personal dev deployment)
                            • prod (for your project’s default production deployment).
                            You can also select deployments in other projects with project-slug:reference.
      --format string       Output format; JSON preserves exact values. (pretty, json) (default "pretty")
  -h, --help                help for trace
      --help-all            Show all commands and options, including administrative controls.
      --help-json           Print command input and output schemas as JSON without executing it.
      --operation string    The catalog operation that admitted the request.
      --url string          Inspect definitions in a private deployment at this explicit origin.

Global Flags:
      --context string   Execution context: project/reference/live or project/reference/<branch>; private deployments use URL#live or URL#branch/<name>. Git navigation never changes this target.
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