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.
npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill logging-best-practicesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aj-geddes/useful-ai-promptsWrote 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.
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- Snyk pass
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 | $0.00051 | $0.00848 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00020 | $0.00339 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00170 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00085 |
Grade A, and why
logging-best-practices 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Logging Best Practices
Table of Contents
Overview
Comprehensive guide to implementing structured, secure, and performant logging across applications. Covers log levels, structured logging formats, contextual information, PII protection, and centralized logging systems.
When to Use
- Setting up application logging infrastructure
- Implementing structured logging
- Configuring log levels for different environments
- Managing sensitive data in logs
- Setting up centralized logging
- Implementing distributed tracing
- Debugging production issues
- Compliance with logging regulations
Quick Start
Minimal working example:
// logger.ts
enum LogLevel {
DEBUG = 0, // Detailed information for debugging
INFO = 1, // General informational messages
WARN = 2, // Warning messages, potentially harmful
ERROR = 3, // Error messages, application can continue
FATAL = 4, // Critical errors, application must stop
}
class Logger {
constructor(private minLevel: LogLevel = LogLevel.INFO) {}
debug(message: string, context?: object) {
if (this.minLevel <= LogLevel.DEBUG) {
this.log(LogLevel.DEBUG, message, context);
}
}
info(message: string, context?: object) {
if (this.minLevel <= LogLevel.INFO) {
this.log(LogLevel.INFO, message, context);
}
}
warn(message: string, context?: object) {
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)
Reference Guides
Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:
| Guide | Contents |
|---|---|
| Log Levels | Log Levels |
| Structured Logging (JSON) | Structured Logging (JSON) |
| Contextual Logging | Contextual Logging |
| PII and Sensitive Data Handling | PII and Sensitive Data Handling |
| Performance Logging | Performance Logging |
| Centralized Logging | Centralized Logging |
| Distributed Tracing | Distributed Tracing |
| Log Sampling (High-Volume Services) | Log Sampling (High-Volume Services) |
What ships with it
10 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.
- references/centralized-logging.md 1.8 KB
- references/contextual-logging.md 2.7 KB
- references/distributed-tracing.md 1.6 KB
- references/log-levels.md 2.0 KB
- references/log-sampling-high-volume-services.md 1.1 KB
- references/performance-logging.md 1.4 KB
- references/pii-and-sensitive-data-handling.md 1.8 KB
- references/structured-logging-json.md 2.9 KB
- scripts/health-check.sh 383 B runs code
- templates/dashboard-config.yaml 472 B
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 114 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 32795dd3c888
logging-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts (376 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 848 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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