arize-instrumentation

arize-instrumentation is a skill for Claude Code from Arize-ai/arize-skills. It costs 86 tokens per session (2,331 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup guide for adding Arize AX tracing to an LLM application, so you can record how requests move through the app. It identifies the app's framework or provider and connects the matching integration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding LLM observability—the ability to inspect AI requests and responses—for the first time, including selecting an integration, adding automatic tracing, and checking that a trace was received.
Why use it?
It removes the guesswork of choosing the right tracing setup and helps confirm that recorded traces arrive in Arize. It also keeps credentials out of source code.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the arize-skills plugin — 14 skills shipped together

not rated 50repo +2 3d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: warn 86 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it when adding LLM observability—the ability to inspect AI requests and responses—for the first time, including selecting an integration, adding automatic tracing, and checking that a trace was received.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arize-ai/arize-skills/arize-instrumentation
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 Arize-ai/arize-skills --skill arize-instrumentation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Arize-ai/arize-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install arize-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,331 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 26 May 2026
  • Snyk warn 26 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 15
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00086 $0.02331
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.01166
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00466
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00233

Measured 10d ago against content hash 0dec4242ab83, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arize-instrumentation 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.

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.

skills/arize-instrumentation/SKILL.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arize Instrumentation Skill

Add Arize AX tracing to an app for the first time: detect the stack → fetch the one matching integration doc → wire auto-instrumentation → verify a trace lands.

Route locally. Map the detected stack to a single doc page via references/integration-routing.md (exhaustive for tracing integrations) and fetch only that page. When the app uses an agent framework, route on the framework, not the provider SDK it wraps — a bare openai/anthropic import inside a framework app is not the integration target; route to a provider page only when the app calls the provider SDK directly with no framework in play. If the stack isn't listed there, it has no dedicated integration — use manual instrumentation. Never bulk-fetch the PROMPT.md/llms.txt aggregates.

Rules: inspect before mutating; tracing is additive, never change business logic; follow existing style; no secrets in code and never ask the user to paste secrets (API keys, tokens) into the chat -- reference ARIZE_API_KEY/ARIZE_SPACE_ID env vars only, set by the user in their own .env/shell; preserve or ask for the app's Arize region/export endpoint instead of assuming US -- see references/regions-and-endpoints.md; ask before persistent local state (ax profiles, .zshrc, env vars) -- see references/ax-profiles.md.

Phase 1: Analysis (read-only — no code/files)

Detect from manifests + imports: language, package manager, LLM providers, frameworks, existing tracing (TracerProvider, register(), ARIZE_*/OTEL_*, Datadog/Honeycomb), existing Arize endpoint/region config (ARIZE_COLLECTOR_ENDPOINT, an in-code Arize endpoint option, or an OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT confirmed to target Arize), and whether the app runs tools / an agent loop (manual CHAIN/TOOL spans only if the matched framework instrumentor doesn't already cover them — decided in Phase 2). Confirm scope first — a monorepo, multiple services, or multiple frameworks needs a "which one?" question before touching anything; don't pick for the user.

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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 · 54 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 0dec4242ab83

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arize-instrumentation is a skill published in the GitHub repository Arize-ai/arize-skills (50 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 2,331 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.