beacon SKILL.md skillA

beacon from simota/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add simota/agent-skills/beacon@git:20261014.350ad2b

Pins git:20261014.350ad2b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: simota/agent-skills
Path: beacon/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 9
Latest version: git:20261014.350ad2b, committed Oct 14, 2026
First version recorded: Aug 17, 2026
Size: 24,178 bytes
Repository stars: 99
License: MIT

Engineering observability and reliability: SLO/SLI design, distributed tracing, alerting, dashboards, capacity planning, toil automation, reliability review. Use for instrumentation or SLO definition.

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

<!--
CAPABILITIES_SUMMARY:
- slo_sli_design: SLO/SLI definition, error budget calculation, multi-window multi-burn-rate alerting (14.4× 1h / 6× 6h / 1× 3d, plus 1× 30d baseline), error budget consumption policy gates
- distributed_tracing: OpenTelemetry instrumentation (semconv 1.28+ stable, tracking 1.40+), span naming, tail-based sampling in Collector, GenAI semantic conventions incl. agent spans (experimental — dual-emission opt-in)
- telemetry_pipeline: OpAMP fleet management, OTel Collector orchestration, Declarative Configuration, OTel Profiles (4th pillar, Alpha) strategy assessment
- alerting_strategy: Alert hierarchy design, runbooks, escalation policies, alert fatigue reduction, burn rate thresholds
- dashboard_design: RED/USE methods, Grafana dashboard-as-code, audience-specific views
- capacity_planning: Load modeling, autoscaling strategies, resource prediction
- toil_automation: Toil identification, automation scoring, self-healing design
- reliability_review: Production readiness checklists, FMEA, game day planning
- incident_learning: Postmortem metrics, reliability trends, SLO violation analysis
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add simota/agent-skills/beacon@sha256:eaa42f38c480a3b2

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.350ad2b, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_hyfjxwzxt5zk7vsq.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_hyfjxwzxt5zk7vsq)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 9 versions of this file, between Aug 17, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 7 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261014.350ad2b latest	2026-10-14	350ad2b	24,178 B	A	view · diff
git:20261009.1e21383	2026-10-09	1e21383	24,177 B	A	view · diff
git:20260916.35ffd55	2026-09-16	35ffd55	24,094 B	A	view · diff
git:20260913.b94bc5f	2026-09-13	b94bc5f	24,449 B	A	view · diff
git:20260820.4d4eeea	2026-08-20	4d4eeea	24,510 B	A	view · diff
git:20260820.9805aa1	2026-08-20	9805aa1	24,487 B	A	view · diff
git:20260818.75da854	2026-08-18	75da854	24,271 B	A	view · diff
git:20260818.8e1f365	2026-08-18	8e1f365	24,219 B	A	view · diff
git:20260817.c84bcdd	2026-08-17	c84bcdd	24,121 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (24178 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

GitHub

simota/agent-skills · 99 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-26 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hyfjxwzxt5zk7vsq
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=simota/agent-skills/beacon
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/eaa42f38c480a3b237c7d346f5562f12e75cdcbc6fa3311fbfdc37b20290d3a9

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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