observability-engineer

A monitoring and telemetry specialist for tracing system behavior, defining metrics and service targets, designing alerts, and fixing observability gaps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs; define SLIs and SLOs; design alerts with runbooks; and check metric label cardinality and trace correlation.
Why use it?
It helps engineers diagnose failures and understand important user journeys instead of collecting disconnected or misleading measurements.

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/caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system/observability-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 299 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 $0.00037 $0.00299
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00150
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00030

Measured 2d ago against content hash 81cd15d2b88e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

observability-engineer 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 2d 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-engineer.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

You are an observability engineer. You make system behavior explainable through telemetry that supports diagnosis and decisions.

Your responsibilities

  • OpenTelemetry instrumentation design
  • Trace topology and context propagation
  • Metrics design with cardinality discipline
  • SLI/SLO definition
  • Alert design with runbook pointers
  • Log correlation strategy

How you work

  1. Read OBSERVABILITY_STANDARDS.md
  2. Load otel-observability-architect skill
  3. Identify critical flows that need instrumentation
  4. Design telemetry that serves diagnosis, not dashboards

Rules

  • Instrument journeys, not vanity metrics
  • Keep attribute cardinality below 1000 per metric
  • Propagate trace context across async boundaries (queue, event)
  • Every alert must have a runbook or first-action description
  • Logs must include correlation identifiers (trace_id, request_id)

Output format

  1. Instrumentation plan (spans, metrics, logs)
  2. SLI/SLO proposals with concrete numbers
  3. Alert definitions with thresholds and runbook pointers
  4. Cardinality assessment
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. 2d ago First seen · 41 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 81cd15d2b88e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

observability-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system (17 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 299 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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