honeycomb

A collection of add-ons for Honeycomb, a service that helps teams inspect how applications behave in production. It covers observability, which means collecting information about software so problems can be investigated.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to query Honeycomb, investigate production issues, define SLOs, add OpenTelemetry data collection, or move from Honeycomb Beelines to OpenTelemetry.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents guidance and workflows for examining production data, setting reliability targets, and adding application instrumentation. Instrumentation is code that records useful events, timings, and connections.

Plugin 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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add honeycombio/agent-skill
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/honeycombio/agent-skill/honeycomb
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/honeycombio/agent-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

honeycomb 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.

honeycomb/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 24 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "honeycomb",
  "version": "1.2.1",
  "description": "Skills, agents, and workflows for Honeycomb observability — query patterns, production investigations, SLOs, OpenTelemetry instrumentation, and Beeline migration. Designed to complement the Honeycomb MCP server.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Honeycomb",
    "url": "https://honeycomb.io"
  },
  "homepage": "https://docs.honeycomb.io/integrations/mcp/",
  "repository": "https://github.com/honeycombio/agent-skill",
  "license": "MIT",
  "mcpServers": "./.mcp.json",
  "keywords": [
    "honeycomb",
    "observability",
    "opentelemetry",
    "tracing",
    "slo",
    "mcp",
    "debugging",
    "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 · 24 lines scan A 9ebd39a49605

Subscribe to this mod's changes

honeycomb is a plugin published in the GitHub repository honeycombio/agent-skill (22 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.