opentelemetry

opentelemetry is a skill for Claude Code from acaprino/daodan. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,566 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Python knowledge base for OpenTelemetry, a system for recording traces, metrics, and logs as software runs. It covers distributed tracing, passing request context between services, exporters, sampling, and production setup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Instrumenting Python services, exporting trace data, connecting logs to traces, configuring sampling, and reviewing existing OpenTelemetry code.
Why use it?
It helps avoid common mistakes when adding observability to asynchronous services, background workers, or non-HTTP systems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the opentelemetry plugin — 1 skill, 1 command, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Instrumenting Python services, exporting trace data, connecting logs to traces, configuring sampling, and reviewing existing OpenTelemetry code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/acaprino/daodan/opentelemetry
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.

Any agent
npx skills add acaprino/daodan --skill opentelemetry
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/acaprino/daodan

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install opentelemetry, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command, 1 agent.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for opentelemetry

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,566 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00055 $0.01566
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00783
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00313
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00157

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3efa60b134a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

opentelemetry 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.

exports/claude/plugins/opentelemetry/skills/opentelemetry/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenTelemetry Python

Index for OTel Python -- traces, metrics, log-trace correlation, distributed propagation. References hold the gotchas; canonical reference lives at https://opentelemetry-python.readthedocs.io and https://opentelemetry.io/docs/.

When to use

  • New Python service that needs distributed tracing
  • Adding OTel to FastAPI / Celery / async Python
  • Custom transports (AMQP, ZMQ, Kafka) needing propagator wiring
  • OTLP exporter / Collector / AWS ADOT configuration
  • Auditing existing instrumentation for gaps or anti-patterns
  • Log-trace correlation
  • Sampling strategy choice for production

Quick-start production recipe

For most Python services, start with this and iterate:

  1. Init: opentelemetry-bootstrap -a install + opentelemetry-instrument wrapper
  2. Resource: set service.name, service.version, deployment.environment
  3. Sampler: ParentBased(TraceIdRatioBased(0.1)) -- 10% head sampling
  4. Exporter: OTLP gRPC to a local Collector at localhost:4317
  5. Processor: BatchSpanProcessor with default tuning (raise OTEL_BSP_MAX_QUEUE_SIZE=8192 if bursty)
  6. Shutdown: register provider.shutdown() in lifespan / atexit / SIGTERM

Then escalate based on what you actually need:

  • Custom business spans → manual tracer.start_as_current_span()
  • Non-HTTP transport → custom propagator (skeleton in exporters-and-backends.md)
  • AWS deployment → ADOT distro + X-Ray ID generator (aws-deployment.md)
  • High throughput → tune BSP queue size + export timeout
  • Error-only retention → tail sampling at the Collector

Auto vs manual instrumentation (the matrix)

Layer Approach Examples
HTTP frameworks Auto FastAPI, Django, Flask
Database clients Auto SQLAlchemy, psycopg2, asyncpg
HTTP clients Auto httpx, requests, aiohttp
Message queues Auto Celery, Kafka
Cache Auto redis, memcached
Business logic Manual Order processing, payment flows
Custom transport Manual AMQP payload, ZMQ events

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 121 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 3efa60b134a8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

opentelemetry is a skill published in the GitHub repository acaprino/daodan (8 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,566 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-05.

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