ops-investigate SKILL.md skillA
ops-investigate from baristaze/swe_guidelines is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add baristaze/swe_guidelines/ops-investigate@git:20261014.7748a1fPins git:20261014.7748a1f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- baristaze/swe_guidelines
- Path
scaffold/acme_root/.agents/skills/ops-investigate/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 10
- Latest version
- git:20261014.7748a1f, committed Oct 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 29, 2026
- Size
- 21,868 bytes
- Repository stars
- 94
- License
- MIT
Investigate one environment of the system with a read-only credential: the alarms, the error rate, the latency, the outcomes, gauges, queues, and log lines each namespace's signals file names, the pool, the cost against the budget, and the system's size, then report what is wrong and what to do next. Every read goes through the signals' own APIs (CloudWatch, X-Ray, the error tracker in the cloud; Prometheus, Jaeger, GlitchTip locally). Use when something looks off, when an alarm fires, or as…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# ops-investigate One environment, one window, one credential that can only read. The skill looks at every signal the system emits and says what is wrong, how big the system is, and which skill runs next. It changes nothing. Read `../_shared/ops-preamble.md`, a path from this skill's folder, before the first step: the profiles, the account check, and the env file are there. ## Input `--env local|staging|production [--since 1h] [--request-id <id>] [--alarm <name>]` `--env` is required; ask for it when missing. `--since` is the window, a duration ending now, one hour by default. `--request-id` narrows the look to one request across every signal. `--alarm` starts from one alarm by name and reads the system's size before anything else. `local` reads the compose stack's twins (Prometheus, Jaeger, GlitchTip, `docker compose logs`) and needs no cloud. The skill is testable with no account. ## Role and credential `--env local` needs the compose stack with the `devx` profile up (`make devx-up`) and the env file below. No cloud credential. `--env staging` and `--env production` run under the investigate profile of that environment, `acme-<env>-investigate`, checked with …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add baristaze/swe_guidelines/ops-investigate@sha256:0ce177baf35edbc3The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.7748a1f, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 10 versions of this file, between Sep 29, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 2 days.
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| git:20261014.7748a1f latest | 2026-10-14 | 7748a1f | 21,868 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261014.62aa70e | 2026-10-14 | 62aa70e | 27,304 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261012.a199a12 | 2026-10-12 | a199a12 | 27,292 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261009.f62c287 | 2026-10-09 | f62c287 | 27,248 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.97478f9 | 2026-09-30 | 97478f9 | 27,016 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.6756f8f | 2026-09-30 | 6756f8f | 26,851 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.13ba624 | 2026-09-30 | 13ba624 | 26,842 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.554f129 | 2026-09-30 | 554f129 | 22,709 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.0713568 | 2026-09-29 | 0713568 | 22,821 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.3422014 | 2026-09-29 | 3422014 | 22,035 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (21868 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
baristaze/swe_guidelines · 94 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dshiiqybfjxmp4zj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=baristaze/swe_guidelines/ops-investigate GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0ce177baf35edbc33aacf21b7a68d9aa52c8fe1c81b141bc1e3fb481b7bc7267
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