The general probe is a combination two tools that provides a general capacity to track arbitrary parameters over time. On the runtime side, org.jactr.tools.grapher.core.GeneralProbe selects model elements (productions, chunks, types, modules, buffers, etc), based on regular expression name matches (quick and easy to implement, but a little wonky if you don't know reg-ex), and attaches probes to them. The general probe then sends that data to the IDE where it is rendered in the jACT-R Probes view.