observability-hardening SKILL.md skillA
observability-hardening from swyxio/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add swyxio/skills/observability-hardening@git:20260809.02acf6bPins git:20260809.02acf6b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- swyxio/skills
- Path
observability-hardening/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260809.02acf6b, committed Aug 9, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 22, 2026
- Size
- 3,722 bytes
- Repository stars
- 194
- License
- MIT
Audit or improve observability for named production questions, incidents, or opaque operations using privacy-safe telemetry. Use only when the user explicitly asks for an observability or instrumentation pass, telemetry design, dashboards or alerts, or when inability to explain production behavior is the primary problem. Do not trigger for ordinary debugging, adding one log line, generic production readiness, product analytics alone, or implementation work that merely benefits from diagnostics.
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 Hardening Use this skill when the product works but failures are opaque. The output should make production behavior explainable without leaking private data. ## Counterweight: questions before telemetry - Start with the operator or user question that cannot currently be answered. Add no signal without a named consumer and decision. - Inspect provider-native logs, metrics, traces, request IDs, and dashboards before building parallel telemetry. - Choose the cheapest sufficient signal. Do not add logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, analytics, and user-visible state as a bundle. - Instrument ownership boundaries and material state transitions, not every function or phase. - Prefer a saved query or clearer existing event over a new pipeline, schema, SDK, collector, or dashboard. - Budget cardinality, volume, retention, latency, privacy, and on-call noise. More telemetry can make diagnosis worse. - Add an alert only when someone owns a concrete response. Add user-visible progress only when users must wait or act. - Do not turn a local debugging gap into a repository-wide observability program or product analytics redesign. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add swyxio/skills/observability-hardening@sha256:afbda818b556082cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260809.02acf6b, 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_ydpgwucklzrlm4iy)
2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 22, 2026 and Aug 9, 2026, about one every 79 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260809.02acf6b latest | 2026-08-09 | 02acf6b | 3,722 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260522.ba97b05 | 2026-05-22 | ba97b05 | 2,342 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 (3722 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
swyxio/skills · 194 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ydpgwucklzrlm4iy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=swyxio/skills/observability-hardening GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/afbda818b556082c17360d61e545633dee53513a938e4eef2e17dc18e048efc7
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.