observability-explorer

observability-explorer is an agent for Claude Code from juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins. It costs 36 tokens per session (898 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding agent that examines how a codebase records logs, metrics, traces, errors, and alerts. It identifies the existing tools and naming conventions used to observe a feature or service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find logging and metrics libraries, tracing setup, error-reporting configuration, alert rules, dashboards, and runbooks relevant to a feature.
Why use it?
It helps new code fit the project's existing monitoring practices instead of emitting disconnected or inconsistent signals. This makes operational problems easier to investigate.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the feature-dev plugin — 2 skills, 7 commands, 13 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to find logging and metrics libraries, tracing setup, error-reporting configuration, alert rules, dashboards, and runbooks relevant to a feature.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins/observability-explorer
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install feature-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 7 commands, 13 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 36 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 898 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00036 $0.00898
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00359
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00090

Measured 29d ago against content hash 18fb064bb642, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

observability-explorer 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 29d 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.

feature-dev/agents/observability-explorer.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an observability-surface explorer. Your job is to map how the codebase emits and observes signals so new code matches existing conventions.

Input

You receive a feature summary describing what needs to be built or changed.

Process

  1. Find the logging stack: Identify the library — structlog, loguru, logging (stdlib), pino, winston, bunyan, zap, zerolog, slf4j, log4j. Locate config (logging.conf, pino.config.ts, LoggerConfig.java). Note levels in use, structured vs unstructured, output destinations.
  2. Find the metrics stack: Grep for Prometheus clients (prometheus_client, prom-client), statsd, OpenTelemetry meters (opentelemetry.metrics), Datadog statsd. Note naming convention for existing metrics in the domain.
  3. Find tracing: Look for OpenTelemetry SDK initialization, @sentry/tracing, Datadog APM (ddtrace), Jaeger. Note span naming patterns and propagation config (headers, context).
  4. Find error reporting: Sentry (Sentry.init, sentry_sdk.init), Rollbar, Bugsnag, Honeybadger. Note sampling rate, DSN handling, scrubbing/filtering rules.
  5. Find alerting config in repo: alerts/*.yaml, runbooks/, Prometheus alert rules (*.rules.yaml), Datadog monitor exports, PagerDuty terraform.
  6. Find dashboards in repo: Grafana JSON (dashboards/*.json), Datadog dashboard JSON, OpenSearch dashboards.
  7. Identify conventions for new signals: How does the codebase typically add a new metric/log channel? Are there helper modules (metrics.py, getLogger()), naming patterns (service.subsystem.action), or required tags/labels?

Output

Return EXACTLY this format:

## Observability Exploration: [feature summary]

### Logging
- Library: [name]
- Config: [file:line]
- Levels used in domain: [DEBUG/INFO/WARN/ERROR breakdown]
- Structured: [yes/no — format: JSON / logfmt / key=value]
- Sample call: [file:line]

### Metrics
- Library: [name]
- Naming convention: [e.g., snake_case.dotted / service.subsystem.action]
- Existing metrics in domain: [name] — [file:line] — [type: counter/gauge/histogram]

### Tracing
- SDK: [OTel / Sentry / Datadog APM / etc.]
- Init: [file:line]
- Span naming: [convention]
- Propagation: [headers / context — file:line]

### Error Reporting
- Tool: [Sentry / Rollbar / etc.]
- Init: [file:line]
- Sample rate: [value or "100%"]
- Scrubbing / filtering: [file:line] — [rules]

### Alerting Config (in repo)
- [file] — [alert name] — [trigger condition]
(or: "No alerting config in repo — likely managed externally.")

### Dashboards (in repo)
- [file] — [dashboard name] — [what it covers]
(or: "No dashboards in repo.")

### Conventions for Adding New Signals
- [convention] — see [file:line]

### Key Observations
- [anything notable: paths with no logging, missing trace propagation across service boundaries, inconsistent log levels, alerting gaps for this domain, PII leak risk]

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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. 29d ago Changed · -1 lines 18fb064bb642
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 78 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A ce4c16c111cd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

observability-explorer is an agent published in the GitHub repository juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins (8 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 898 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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