sota-observability SKILL.md skillA
sota-observability from martinholovsky/sota-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-observability@git:20261026.808c340Pins git:20261026.808c340 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- martinholovsky/sota-skills
- Path
skills/sota-observability/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 10
- Latest version
- git:20261026.808c340, committed Oct 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 17, 2026
- Size
- 8,286 bytes
- Repository stars
- 26
- License
- CC-BY-4.0
State-of-the-art observability and reliability engineering (2026). Use when instrumenting code (structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry, SLOs, alerting, health endpoints) or auditing an existing codebase's observability posture (can on-call answer "why is this request slow?" and "what broke at 3am?"). Not for security detections, SIEM, or threat hunting — use sota-detection-engineering. Triggers: logging, metrics, tracing, monitoring, alerting, SLO, SLI, error…
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
# SOTA Observability & Reliability ## Purpose Make every production system answerable. Two questions define success: 1. **"Why is this request slow/failing?"** — answerable for any single request from a trace ID, without adding new instrumentation. 2. **"What broke at 3am?"** — answerable from symptom-based alerts that page only when users are hurt, each linked to a runbook and a dashboard that narrows cause in minutes. This skill covers structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, SLOs and alerting, and operational readiness — both how to **build** them correctly and how to **audit** them adversarially. Telemetry is a product with users (on-call engineers) and costs (storage, cardinality, attention). Treat both. ## BUILD mode When writing or modifying code, apply the rules files as design constraints, not afterthoughts. Workflow: 1. **Identify the signal need before coding.** For each new endpoint, job, or consumer: which SLI does it affect, what one wide event describes a unit of work, what spans bound its external calls. 2. **Instrument with OpenTelemetry API** (not vendor SDKs) in libraries; …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-observability@sha256:8399ad267c7299ceThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261026.808c340, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_rbmjni3jyv5fxp7y)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 10 versions of this file, between Jun 17, 2026 and Oct 26, 2026, about one every 15 days.
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| git:20261026.808c340 latest | 2026-10-26 | 808c340 | 8,286 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261026.ca2a1f1 | 2026-10-26 | ca2a1f1 | 8,212 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261024.8dd2b0a | 2026-10-24 | 8dd2b0a | 8,147 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261012.ae1b29b | 2026-10-12 | ae1b29b | 7,906 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.467e225 | 2026-09-25 | 467e225 | 7,700 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.054c2cb | 2026-09-25 | 054c2cb | 7,569 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260903.02cb41e | 2026-09-03 | 02cb41e | 7,495 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260820.7720f5a | 2026-08-20 | 7720f5a | 7,429 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.e4afc80 | 2026-07-16 | e4afc80 | 7,280 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260617.c5d2c7b | 2026-06-17 | c5d2c7b | 7,189 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 (8286 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
martinholovsky/sota-skills · 26 stars · license CC-BY-4.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rbmjni3jyv5fxp7y GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-observability GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8399ad267c7299ce34a3f2c2cba63a2b9d99fd96628c4e5937fec4c729304711
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