honeycomb-setup

honeycomb-setup is a command for coding agents from honeycombio/agent-skill. It costs 17 tokens per session (884 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive setup command for connecting Claude Code to Honeycomb's remote service. It asks about the account, region, and sign-in method before configuring the connection.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure the Honeycomb connection with browser-based sign-in or an API key for unattended environments.
Why use it?
It guides users through the account and authentication choices needed before Claude Code can access Honeycomb. It also supports separate US and EU service regions.

Command

Part of the honeycomb plugin — 11 skills, 1 command, 2 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

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 commands/honeycombio/agent-skill/honeycomb-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/honeycombio/agent-skill

Or install honeycomb, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 1 command, 2 agents, 2 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 884 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 $0.00017 $0.00884
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00442
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00177
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00088

Measured 4d ago against content hash fdd1f6d92a92, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

honeycomb-setup 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 4d 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.

honeycomb/commands/honeycomb-setup.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Honeycomb MCP Setup

Guide the user through connecting Claude Code to Honeycomb's MCP server. Use AskUserQuestion to walk through the setup interactively.

Step 1: Prerequisites

Ask the user:

  1. Do they have a Honeycomb account?
  2. Is Honeycomb Intelligence enabled on their team? (Required for MCP)

If they're unsure about Honeycomb Intelligence, it's an add-on feature that enables AI-powered tools. They can check with their Honeycomb team admin.

Step 2: Choose Region

Use AskUserQuestion to ask: "Which Honeycomb region are you using?"

  • US (default): https://mcp.honeycomb.io/mcp
  • EU: https://mcp.eu1.honeycomb.io/mcp

Step 3: Choose Authentication Method

Use AskUserQuestion to ask: "How would you like to authenticate?"

Option A: OAuth (Recommended)

Run the following command based on their region:

US:

claude mcp add honeycomb --transport http https://mcp.honeycomb.io/mcp

EU:

claude mcp add honeycomb --transport http https://mcp.eu1.honeycomb.io/mcp

After adding, the user will be prompted to authenticate in their browser on first use.

Option B: API Key (Headless/Unattended Only)

For headless environments where OAuth is not available, use AskUserQuestion to collect:

  1. Their API key (format: <Key ID>:<Secret Key>)
  2. Their region (from Step 2)

Then run the appropriate command:

US:

claude mcp add honeycomb --transport http https://mcp.honeycomb.io/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer <KEY_ID>:<SECRET_KEY>"

EU:

claude mcp add honeycomb --transport http https://mcp.eu1.honeycomb.io/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer <KEY_ID>:<SECRET_KEY>"

Replace <KEY_ID>:<SECRET_KEY> with the user's actual API key.

API Key requirements:

  • Must be a Management API Key (not Ingest key)
  • Must have "Model Context Protocol" scope (read)
  • Must have "Environments" scope (read)
  • For create_board: also need "Model Context Protocol" scope (write)
  • Format: <Key ID>:<Secret Key> (with colon separator)

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 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. 4d ago First seen · 105 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A fdd1f6d92a92

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honeycomb-setup is a command published in the GitHub repository honeycombio/agent-skill (22 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 884 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.