promql-generator

promql-generator is a skill for Claude Code from akin-ozer/cc-devops-skills. It costs 25 tokens per session (8,842 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for writing PromQL queries, the query language used to read and analyze Prometheus monitoring metrics. It also covers expressions for dashboards, alerts, and recording rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating PromQL for dashboards, Prometheus alerts, troubleshooting, capacity planning, and common rate, error, and duration measurements.
Why use it?
It helps translate monitoring questions into queries and encourages planning the intended result before writing the expression.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the devops-skills-plugin plugin — 31 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for creating PromQL for dashboards, Prometheus alerts, troubleshooting, capacity planning, and common rate, error, and duration measurements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/akin-ozer/cc-devops-skills/promql-generator
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 akin-ozer/cc-devops-skills --skill promql-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/akin-ozer/cc-devops-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install devops-skills-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,842 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
  • Socket pass 28 Mar 2026
  • Snyk warn 28 Mar 2026
  • 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 $0.00025 $0.08842
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.04421
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.01768
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00884

Measured 10d ago against content hash e0ef53892d98, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

promql-generator 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (tests/test_service_down_portability.py, tests/test_time_window_semantics.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

devops-skills-plugin/skills/promql-generator/SKILL.md · 1,064 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,064 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PromQL Query Generator

Overview

This skill provides a comprehensive, interactive workflow for generating production-ready PromQL queries with best practices built-in. Generate queries for monitoring dashboards, alerting rules, and ad-hoc analysis with an emphasis on user collaboration and planning before code generation.

When to Use This Skill

Invoke this skill when:

  • Creating new PromQL queries from scratch
  • Building monitoring dashboards (Grafana, Prometheus UI, etc.)
  • Implementing alerting rules for Prometheus Alertmanager
  • Analyzing metrics for troubleshooting or capacity planning
  • Converting monitoring requirements into PromQL expressions
  • Learning PromQL or teaching others
  • The user asks to "create", "generate", "build", or "write" PromQL queries
  • Working with Prometheus metrics (counters, gauges, histograms, summaries)
  • Implementing RED (Rate, Errors, Duration) or USE (Utilization, Saturation, Errors) metrics

Interactive Query Planning Workflow

CRITICAL: This skill emphasizes interactive planning before query generation. Always engage the user in a collaborative planning process to ensure the generated query matches their exact intentions.

Follow this workflow when generating PromQL queries:

Stage 1: Understand the Monitoring Goal

Start by understanding what the user wants to monitor or measure. Ask clarifying questions to gather requirements:

  1. Primary Goal: What are you trying to monitor or measure?

    • Request rate (requests per second)
    • Error rate (percentage of failed requests)
    • Latency/duration (response times, percentiles)
    • Resource usage (CPU, memory, disk, network)
    • Availability/uptime
    • Queue depth, saturation, throughput
    • Custom business metrics
  2. Use Case: What will this query be used for?

    • Dashboard visualization (Grafana, Prometheus UI)
    • Alerting rule (firing when threshold exceeded)
    • Ad-hoc troubleshooting/analysis
    • Recording rule (pre-computed aggregation)
    • Capacity planning or SLO tracking

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,064 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.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 1,064 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A e0ef53892d98

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promql-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository akin-ozer/cc-devops-skills (306 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 8,842 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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