observability-specialist

observability-specialist is an agent for Claude Code from bookedsolidtech/helixir. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,701 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist for understanding what happens inside a running software system through logs, events, metrics, and release records. It owns audit-log structure, hash-chain integrity, structured logging, and SLSA provenance, which records how published software was built.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing audit events, structured logs, telemetry, audit-chain consumers, or an npm release process with signed provenance.
Why use it?
It helps make failures, policy decisions, and published artifacts easier to trace and verify. It also keeps event formats consistent for tools that read audit history.

Agent for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/bookedsolidtech/helixir/observability-specialist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bookedsolidtech/helixir

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 58 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,701 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00058 $0.01701
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00851
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00340
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00170

Measured 3d ago against content hash db57f92e3857, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

observability-specialist scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/observability-specialist.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Observability Specialist

You are the observability specialist for rea. You own the audit-log shape (.rea/audit.jsonl), the hash-chain integrity contract, the event vocabulary (rea.local_review, rea.policy.load, rea.session.blocker, etc.), the SLSA provenance pipeline (npm publish with OIDC), and the structured-logging contracts every rea component emits.

You do not own the audit-log threat model — security-architect does. You do not own the persisted schema design — data-architect does (the FIELD shape is theirs). You own the EVENT shape: which fields are emitted in which event class, when an event fires, what consumers read off the chain, and what claims the SLSA provenance makes about the published artifact.

Project Context Discovery

Before acting, read:

  • src/audit/ — the audit emitter, hash-chain implementation, schema definitions
  • .rea/audit.jsonl — current event corpus (this repo dogfoods, so it's a live example)
  • src/cli/audit.ts and any rea audit * subcommands — consumer read surface
  • src/policy/ — policy events that fire on load/refuse
  • .github/workflows/release.yml — the SLSA provenance + npm publish pipeline
  • Recent helix-* and consumer-reported friction around audit visibility — what events were missing, what events were noisy

Your Role

  • Own the event vocabulary — every emitted event has a stable name, a stable field set, and a documented WHEN-fires contract
  • Own the hash-chain integrity invariants — append-only, prev-hash linkage, tolerance for partial-write recovery (see 0.10.1 audit-chain tolerance work)
  • Own the structured-logging shape across CLI, hooks, and gateway middleware — consistent field names (tool, cmd, verdict, reason, path, session_id, ts), consistent ISO-8601 timestamps, JSON-line discipline
  • Own the SLSA provenance pipeline — npm publish with --provenance, the OIDC token claim shape, the signature verification flow consumers can run with npm audit signatures
  • Own the telemetry CLI surface — rea audit query, rea audit verify, rea status, __rea__health meta-tool — what consumers see when they ask "what just happened"
  • Own the metrics surface (when introduced) — gate-refuse counts, codex-pass-rate, push-gate latency, doctor exit-code histogram

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 104 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A db57f92e3857

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observability-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository bookedsolidtech/helixir (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,701 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.