observability SKILL.md skillA

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

Install it, pinned
mdr add usetemi/skills/observability@git:20260930.625c48f

Pins git:20260930.625c48f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
usetemi/skills
Path
skills/observability/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260930.625c48f, committed Sep 30, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 27, 2026
Size
5,715 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
MIT

Opinionated judgment for instrumentation, logging, tracing, alerting, and production feedback. Use when deciding what telemetry to capture, designing a log record or event vocabulary, choosing operation boundaries, evaluating sampling and aggregation, designing alerts or service objectives, choosing or adding a telemetry tool, investigating a production outcome, or when a change adds or alters an operation whose outcome matters in production, even if nobody asked for telemetry.

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

# Observability

**The goal is explainability. The evidence needed to explain a production
outcome exists, and a fresh investigator can find it.** The investigator did not
write the code. Without the author's memory and without reading the source, they
must establish three things: what happened, whom it affected, and what separated
the failed work from the work that succeeded. Load `references/vocabulary.md`
when you define an SLI or SLO, or choose among metrics, records, and traces.

## Every record is structured

**Use the project's existing logger; do not add a second one.** If there is
none, use the language's standard structured logger, writing JSON to stdout or
stderr. **Never write an unstructured log line**: interpolated values are data
thrown away. A record has a literal event name, typed fields, a time, and a
severity. **Fix each field's meaning, type, and unit across the codebase.**

`result` is one of `succeeded`, `failed`, `skipped`, `retried`, `degraded`,
`unknown`. A **reason code** comes from a closed list declared in one place:
`payment.failure.reason_code: card_declined`. Often the domain's event names are
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add usetemi/skills/observability@sha256:1e1d6b74f03facec

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260930.625c48f, 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 2 versions of this file, between Sep 27, 2026 and Sep 30, 2026, about one every 3 days.

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Audit of the latest version

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  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5715 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
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Source

GitHub

usetemi/skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ocdwyxssyvg3iniy
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=usetemi/skills/observability
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1e1d6b74f03facec59bb1cc6120183eb884636749bce9d6f62e5bf6ea4a3e1fb

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.

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