Thank you for this, I knew only of ocicl and have only been using macro expand in the repl, will have to try macrostep.

My work flow for packaging is very hacky at the moment, I have sbcl install on the host but mostly for developing I run in a podman container and download repos of libraries as I need them and then mount them in a volume and also mount a link farm to load all the asdf systems and that is set up by the initialization script and starts swank and any other initialization needed. probably ocicl does a lot of what I want but for a particular things I was doing I was I also wanted to modify a library so it evolved like this it might be a little insane but new to common lisp development so might be bad.