observability SKILL.md skillA
observability from ericrisco/rsc-harness is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ericrisco/rsc-harness/observability@git:20260806.2c14dfbPins git:20260806.2c14dfb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ericrisco/rsc-harness
- Path
skills/observability/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260806.2c14dfb, committed Aug 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 2, 2026
- Size
- 15,351 bytes
- Repository stars
- 236
- License
- MIT
Use when instrumenting a service from the inside so an incident can be explained from telemetry alone — wiring OpenTelemetry logs, metrics and traces, standing up a Collector, exporting via OTLP, and defining telemetry-driven alerts. NOT outside-in uptime probes, on-call rotation, or who-gets-paged (that is `monitoring`).
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 You are wiring the *inside* view of a service: when something breaks at 3am, an engineer must be able to answer "what happened, where, and why" from telemetry alone — without adding a `console.log` and redeploying into the fire. This skill emits a concrete artifact: SDK init code, instrumentation (spans/metrics/structured logs), a Collector config, and alert rules that the instrumentation makes possible. The outside-in half — is it up, who gets paged — is `../monitoring/SKILL.md`. ## The one rule **Every signal carries the same correlation identity: `trace_id`, `service.name`, `deployment.environment`.** A log line you cannot pivot to its trace, or a spiking metric you cannot pivot to an exemplar span, doubles your mean-time-to-resolution — you are back to grepping. Three signals that don't share keys are three disconnected tools; three that do are one queryable system. Set the resource once at SDK init, inject `trace_id`/`span_id` into every log, and never emit a metric you can't tie back to a service and environment. ## Start from the operator's questions …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ericrisco/rsc-harness/observability@sha256:15559bd221a522c2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260806.2c14dfb, 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_w55fvajqg6on32hu)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jun 2, 2026 and Aug 6, 2026, about one every 33 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260806.2c14dfb latest | 2026-08-06 | 2c14dfb | 15,351 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260729.f0c377f | 2026-07-29 | f0c377f | 14,346 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260602.75f7184 | 2026-06-02 | 75f7184 | 15,093 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 (15351 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
ericrisco/rsc-harness · 236 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_w55fvajqg6on32hu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ericrisco/rsc-harness/observability GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/15559bd221a522c26836483a73b05940255ae50557e21d062f0e68494226758e
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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