diff --git a/.agents/tasks/2025/06/29-2310-update-selective-tracing b/.agents/tasks/2025/06/29-2310-update-selective-tracing
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8ddf18a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.agents/tasks/2025/06/29-2310-update-selective-tracing
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Update example selective_tracing.rb to require codetracer_ruby_recorder after computing ext_base, replace enable_tracing/disable_tracing with start/stop, confirm example runs
diff --git a/examples/selective_tracing.rb b/examples/selective_tracing.rb
index 47b6884..b128f6b 100755
--- a/examples/selective_tracing.rb
+++ b/examples/selective_tracing.rb
@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env ruby
 
-ext_base = File.expand_path('../gems/codetracer-ruby-recorder/ext/native_tracer/target/release/libcodetracer_ruby_recorder', __dir__)
-require ext_base
+ext_base = File.expand_path('../gems/codetracer-ruby-recorder/lib', __dir__)
+$LOAD_PATH.unshift(ext_base) unless $LOAD_PATH.include?(ext_base)
+require 'codetracer_ruby_recorder'
 
 recorder = CodeTracer::RubyRecorder.new
 
 puts 'start trace'
-recorder.disable_tracing
+recorder.stop
 puts 'this will not be traced'
-recorder.enable_tracing
+recorder.start
 puts 'this will be traced'
-recorder.disable_tracing
+recorder.stop
 puts 'tracing disabled'
 recorder.flush_trace(Dir.pwd)