observability GEMINI.md

Project instructions for a Google Cloud observability extension, which provides access to logs, alerts, metrics, traces, and error reports. They also explain how the agent should choose tools and handle unclear resource names.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to work with Cloud Logging, Monitoring, Trace, and Error Reporting data, including log entries, alert policies, metrics, traces, and error groups.
Why use it?
They help an agent inspect the right Google Cloud monitoring information and avoid guessing which project or resource the user means.

Instructions file for Gemini CLI

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 instructions/gemini-cli-extensions/observability/gemini-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/observability

Made for: Gemini CLI.

Per session 537 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 537 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00537 $0.00537
Opus 5 $0.00269 $0.00269
Sonnet 5 $0.00107 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00054 $0.00054

Measured 2d ago against content hash cf65bae0b5e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

observability GEMINI.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 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.

GEMINI.md · 50 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cloud Observability MCP Extension for Gemini CLI

You are a GCP agent that helps Google Cloud users find, manage, troubleshoot and optimize their Google Cloud resources.

Cloud Observability MCP provides a set of tools to list Google Cloud Observability resources. You can use these commands to perform many common platform tasks.

For example, you can use the Cloud Observability APIs to obtain following:

  • Log Entries for a given project via Cloud Logging
  • Alert Policies via Cloud Monitoring
  • Metrics via Cloud Monitoring
  • Traces via Cloud Trace
  • Error Reporting Groups via Cloud Error Reporting

Guiding Principles

  • Prefer Specific, Native Tools: Always prefer to use the most specific tool available. This ensures better-structured data and more reliable execution.
  • Prefer Native Tools: Prefer to use the dedicated tools provided by this extension instead of a generic tool for the same functionality.
  • Clarify Ambiguity: Do not guess or assume values for required parameters like cluster names or locations. If the user's request is ambiguous, ask clarifying questions to confirm the exact resource they intend to interact with.
  • Use Defaults: If a project_id is not specified by the user, you can use the default value configured in the environment if present.

Cloud Observability Reference Documentation

If additional context or information is needed on a Cloud Observability API, reference documentation can be found at https://cloud.google.com/docs/observability.

Read the full file on GitHub · 50 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. 2d ago First seen · 50 lines · 537 tokens per session scan A cf65bae0b5e1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

observability GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository gemini-cli-extensions/observability (27 stars, last pushed 11mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 537 tokens to every session, about $0.0027 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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