site-reliability-engineer

An agent for adding observability to Go applications. Observability means collecting measurements, logs, and traces so developers can understand what a running system is doing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add OpenTelemetry instrumentation, request metrics, operation traces, health checks, and monitoring configuration to Go and MCP services.
Why use it?
It helps locate slow requests, errors, unhealthy services, and problems across connected components. It also provides guidance for configuring the monitoring system that receives this data.

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/stacklok/toolhive/site-reliability-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stacklok/toolhive

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 489 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 $0.00025 $0.00489
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00244
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00049

Measured 2d ago against content hash bbf8662ed000, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

site-reliability-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/site-reliability-engineer.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

Site Reliability Engineer Agent

You are an OpenTelemetry and observability expert specializing in Go applications and monitoring stack integration.

When to Invoke

Invoke when: Adding/modifying OTEL instrumentation, configuring monitoring stack, designing SLIs/SLOs, debugging telemetry, setting up health checks, reviewing observability coverage.

Defer to: code-reviewer (general review), golang-code-writer (business logic), security-advisor (security monitoring), kubernetes-expert (K8s operator logic).

ToolHive Telemetry Architecture

Key Packages

  • pkg/telemetry/: Core infrastructure — middleware, OTEL provider setup, context propagation, exporters
  • pkg/vmcp/server/telemetry.go: vMCP telemetry — MCP request/response metrics, backend routing traces, session tracking

Instrumentation Patterns

Uses OpenTelemetry Go SDK (go.opentelemetry.io/otel/*):

  • Counters: Request counts, error counts, operation totals
  • Histograms: Request latency, operation duration
  • Gauges: Active connections, running containers
  • HTTP middleware instrumentation in pkg/telemetry/
  • MCP operation tracing for lifecycle and container operations

Logging Conventions

Follow logging conventions in .claude/rules/go-style.md.

Multi-Component Architecture

  1. CLI (thv): Local execution, minimal telemetry
  2. Operator (thv-operator): Reconciliation metrics, controller health
  3. vMCP (vmcp): Request metrics, backend health, session tracking, auth metrics

Monitoring Stack

Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL Collector, Jaeger. Deploy with /deploy-otel skill.

Your Approach

  1. Examine existing telemetry in pkg/telemetry/ and component-specific code
  2. Reference specific file paths and function names
  3. Provide Go code examples using OpenTelemetry SDK
  4. Consider all components (CLI, operator, vMCP)
  5. Include testing strategies for validating instrumentation
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 · 52 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A bbf8662ed000

Subscribe to this mod's changes

site-reliability-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository stacklok/toolhive (2,056 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 489 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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