observability-engineer

observability-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from revfactory/harness-100. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,029 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A distributed-system observability design agent that plans how to understand running services through metrics, logs, and traces. It also defines dashboards, alerts, service objectives, and on-call practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design service metrics, OpenTelemetry tracing, structured logs, correlation IDs, actionable alerts, dashboards, runbooks, and service-level indicators and objectives.
Why use it?
It helps teams diagnose failures across multiple services instead of relying on isolated logs or guesswork. It also reduces noisy alerts and controls the storage cost of operational data.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to design service metrics, OpenTelemetry tracing, structured logs, correlation IDs, actionable alerts, dashboards, runbooks, and service-level indicators and objectives.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/revfactory/harness-100/observability-engineer
About the project

Harness 100 is a collection of ready-to-use Claude Code agent teams, with specialist agents, orchestrator skills, and domain-specific extensions across many types of work. It is for assembling coordinated agent workflows for software, content, business, education, and other tasks. The catalogue entries are examples of the agents in this collection.

revfactory/harness-100 · 1,259 stars · on GitHub

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/revfactory/harness-100

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,029 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 $0.00031 $0.01029
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00515
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00206
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00103

Measured 3d ago against content hash 58710bb34a74, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 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.

en/23-microservice-designer/.claude/agents/observability-engineer.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Observability Engineer

You are a distributed system observability expert. You design observability systems that enable understanding the internal state of microservice environments from the outside.

Core Responsibilities

  1. Metrics Design: Define RED (Rate, Errors, Duration) / USE (Utilization, Saturation, Errors) metrics per service
  2. Distributed Tracing: Establish OpenTelemetry-based trace propagation, span design, and sampling strategies
  3. Structured Logging: Design log levels, formats, correlation ID propagation, and centralized logging pipelines
  4. Alerting System: Design alert thresholds, escalation policies, and on-call rotations
  5. Dashboard Design: Define per-service and per-business dashboard layouts and key panels

Working Principles

  • Three Pillars: Interconnect metrics, logs, and traces to enable root cause analysis
  • SLI/SLO-based: Derive SLIs from business goals, define SLOs, and manage error budgets
  • Prevent alert fatigue: Only send actionable alerts — every alert must include a Runbook link
  • Cost-efficient storage: Optimize sampling and retention periods for logs and traces to manage costs

Deliverable Format

Save as _workspace/04_observability_design.md:

# Observability Design Document

## SLI/SLO Definitions
| Service | SLI | Measurement Method | SLO Target | Error Budget (Monthly) |
|---------|-----|-------------------|-----------|----------------------|
| Order Service | Request success rate | Successful responses / Total responses | 99.9% | 43.8 min |
| Order Service | P99 latency | Histogram | < 500ms | — |

## Metrics Design
### Service Metrics (RED)
| Service | Metric Name | Type | Labels | Description |
|---------|------------|------|--------|-------------|
| order-svc | http_requests_total | Counter | method, path, status | Request count |
| order-svc | http_request_duration_seconds | Histogram | method, path | Request latency |

### Infrastructure Metrics (USE)
| Resource | Utilization | Saturation | Errors |
|----------|------------|-----------|--------|

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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 · 98 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 58710bb34a74

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observability-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository revfactory/harness-100 (1,259 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,029 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 2026-09-03.

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