validate_telemetry

validate_telemetry is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from adrielp/ai-engineering-harness. It costs 42 tokens per session (338 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command for checking locally emitted telemetry, which is technical information about how a service runs. It either compares telemetry with a written specification or performs a general health check of the local OpenTelemetry system.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for checking the local Aspire dashboard, verifying the OpenTelemetry export setting, validating a telemetry specification, or running a generic health check without changing code or configuration.
Why use it?
It catches missing or incorrect monitoring data and reports setup problems before telemetry is trusted.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/adrielp/ai-engineering-harness/validate_telemetry
Any agent
npx skills add adrielp/ai-engineering-harness --skill validate_telemetry
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adrielp/ai-engineering-harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 338 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00042 $0.00338
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00169
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00034

Measured 4d ago against content hash bc52936d0fe4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validate_telemetry scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 4d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

1. The local Aspire dashboard is reachable (`curl -sf http://localhost:18888`
claude/skills/validate_telemetry/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

Validate Telemetry

Activate the observability-driven-development skill and run its Validation section.

Mode Detection

  • If an argument was provided and it resolves to an existing file under thoughts/shared/telemetry/, run Mode A — Spec-Driven Validation.
  • Otherwise (no argument, or argument doesn't resolve), run Mode B — Generic Health Check.

Pre-Flight

Before running either mode, confirm:

  1. The local Aspire dashboard is reachable (curl -sf http://localhost:18888 returns 2xx).
  2. The user's service is configured to export to the dashboard (OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT set).

If either fails, surface a one-line setup hint pointing at observability-driven-development/local-setup.md and stop.

Output

Per the report format in the ODD skill's Validation section. Don't modify code or config silently — the report is the output.

Relationship to Other Commands

Ticket → /create_plan → [ODD: write narrative]
       → /implement_plan → /validate_plan (correctness)
       → /validate_telemetry (telemetry) → /commit
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. 4d ago First seen · 48 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A bc52936d0fe4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

validate_telemetry is a skill published in the GitHub repository adrielp/ai-engineering-harness (20 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 338 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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