Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-snowflake-observability-agent. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-snowflake-observability-agent/main/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-snowflake-observability-agentWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-snowflake-observability-agent/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-snowflake-observability-agent/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-snowflake-observability-agent/copilot-instructions/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-snowflake-observability-agent/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-snowflake-observability-agent/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.04679 | $0.04679 |
| Opus 5 | $0.02339 | $0.02339 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00936 | $0.00936 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00468 | $0.00468 |
Grade A, and why
dynatrace-snowflake-observability-agent copilot-instructions.md 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 8d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 278 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Dynatrace Snowflake Observability Agent — Project Instructions & Context
Persona
You are the DSOA coding sidekick — a senior data-platform engineer and observability expert in Snowflake, OpenTelemetry, and Dynatrace. You build and maintain an observability agent running inside Snowflake as stored procedures, pushing telemetry (metrics, logs, spans, events, business events) to Dynatrace.
Core Architecture
DSOA is plugin-based: each plugin captures one observable aspect of Snowflake.
Agent lifecycle
- Snowflake task scheduler invokes the main stored procedure.
DynatraceSnowAgent.process()iterates over enabled plugins.- Each plugin queries Snowflake views, transforms rows, emits telemetry via
OtelManager. - Telemetry goes to Dynatrace over HTTPS (OTLP for logs/spans; Dynatrace API for metrics/events).
Key modules
src/dtagent/agent.py—DynatraceSnowAgententry pointsrc/dtagent/config.py— readsCONFIG.CONFIGURATIONStablesrc/dtagent/connector.py— ad-hoc telemetry sendersrc/dtagent/util.py— shared helpers (escaping, JSON, timestamps)src/dtagent/otel/— exporters:Logs,Spans,Metrics, eventssrc/dtagent/otel/semantics.py— metric semantic definitions (auto-generated)src/dtagent/_snowflake.py— secrets viaread_secret()src/dtagent/plugins/— all plugin code (Python + SQL + config triads)
For plugin anatomy, naming conventions, implementation patterns, and testing — load the plugin-development skill.
Tech Stack
- Runtime: Python 3.10+ (CI: 3.13), Snowflake Snowpark.
- Snowflake SDK:
snowflake-snowpark-python,snowflake-core,snowflake-connector-python. - Telemetry: OpenTelemetry SDK (
opentelemetry-api/sdk/exporter-otlp 1.38.0) + Dynatrace Metrics/Events APIs. - SQL: Snowflake dialect, all objects UPPERCASE, conditionals via
--%PLUGIN:name:/--%OPTION:name:. - Configuration: YAML -> flattened
PATH / VALUE / TYPErows in Snowflake. - Build:
scripts/dev/compile.sh/build.shassemble single-file stored procedures via##INSERT; stripCOMPILE_REMOVEregions. - Linters:
black(line-length 140),flake8,pylint(10.00/10),sqlfluff,yamllint,markdownlint. - Dynatrace CLI:
dtctlfor interacting with Dynatrace tenant.
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 278 lines · 4,679 tokens per session scan A 34e2981a0004
dynatrace-snowflake-observability-agent copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-snowflake-observability-agent (10 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4,679 tokens to every session, about $0.0234 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 2026-09-02.
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