What is 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.

Use them to work with Cloud Logging, Monitoring, Trace, and Error Reporting data, including log entries, alert policies, metrics, traces, and error groups.

They help an agent inspect the right Google Cloud monitoring information and avoid guessing which project or resource the user means.

How gemini-cli-extensions/observability configures Gemini CLI

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to gemini-cli-extensions/observability. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gemini-cli-extensions/observability/main/GEMINI.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/observability

Made for: Gemini CLI.

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README.md

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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. 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00537	$0.00537
Opus 5.5	$0.00215	$0.00215
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00107	$0.00107
Haiku 4.5	$0.00054	$0.00054

Measured 2mo ago against content hash cf65bae0b5e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2mo 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.

Logging: https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/reference/v2/rest
- For example, documentation on list_log_entries can be found at https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/reference/v2/rest/v2/entries/list
Monitoring: https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/v3
- For example, documentation on list_time_series can be found at https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/ref_v3/rest/v3/projects.timeSeries/list
Trace: https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/reference/v1/rest
- For example, documentation on list_traces can be found at https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/reference/v1/rest/v1/projects.traces/list
Error Reporting: https://cloud.google.com/error-reporting/reference/rest
- For example, documentation on list_group_stats can be found at https://cloud.google.com/error-reporting/reference/rest/v1beta1/projects.groupStats/list

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.

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observability GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository gemini-cli-extensions/observability (27 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 537 tokens to every session, about $0.0021 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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