neo-opentelemetry

neo-opentelemetry is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Benknightdark/neo-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,065 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An OpenTelemetry guide for understanding and operating systems that collect traces, metrics, and logs about software. It covers telemetry design, Collector setup, zero-code options, security, and related migrations without writing language-specific instrumentation code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or review Collector pipelines, declarative configuration, Kubernetes and serverless deployments, sampling, sensitive-data handling, and Prometheus interoperability.
Why use it?
It helps when you need to decide what monitoring data to collect or troubleshoot how that data moves through your systems. It also makes the boundaries clear when a question requires application code or vendor-specific administration.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan or review Collector pipelines, declarative configuration, Kubernetes and serverless deployments, sampling, sensitive-data handling, and Prometheus interoperability.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/benknightdark/neo-skills/neo-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 Benknightdark/neo-skills --skill neo-opentelemetry
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Benknightdark/neo-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,065 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.
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 $0.00076 $0.01065
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00532
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00213
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00106

Measured 12d ago against content hash c42c2d86af54, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

neo-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 12d 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/neo-opentelemetry/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Neo OpenTelemetry

Provide source-grounded OpenTelemetry guidance for concepts and operations without generating programming-language instrumentation code.

Scope boundary

In scope:

  • Observability concepts, telemetry signals, correlation, resources, semantic conventions, and sampling.
  • Collector pipelines, components, deployment patterns, declarative configuration, scaling, resiliency, internal telemetry, transformation, and troubleshooting.
  • Kubernetes, FaaS, OpenTelemetry Operator, OBI, and other zero-code operational approaches.
  • Security, sensitive-data handling, Prometheus interoperability, and OpenCensus/OpenTracing migration planning.

Out of scope:

  • Language-specific SDK/API usage, manual instrumentation, source-code examples, and library integration code.
  • Building the Collector from source or developing custom receivers, processors, exporters, connectors, or extensions.
  • Vendor pricing, backend-specific query languages, and backend product administration unless needed only as context for an OpenTelemetry decision.

If the request crosses the boundary, answer the in-scope operational portion and identify the excluded portion. Point to the appropriate official language or component-development documentation instead of inventing code.

Workflow

  1. Classify the request as explanation, architecture decision, configuration review, security review, migration, or troubleshooting.
  2. Load references/sources-and-scope.md whenever the answer depends on source coverage, current status, or an excluded area.
  3. Load only the references required by the request:
    • Foundations and terminology: references/foundations.md
    • Signals and sampling: references/signals-and-sampling.md
    • Collector topology and configuration: references/collector-architecture-and-configuration.md
    • Collector operations and troubleshooting: references/collector-operations.md
    • Kubernetes, FaaS, Operator, and zero-code: references/platforms-and-zero-code.md
    • Security and sensitive data: references/security.md
    • Prometheus, migration, and deployment guidance: references/compatibility-and-guidance.md
  4. Inspect user-provided configuration and environment evidence before recommending changes. Never assume topology, volume, failure tolerance, trust boundaries, or backend capabilities.
  5. Verify time-sensitive facts against official OpenTelemetry sources. If verification is unavailable, identify the snapshot revision and state that current status cannot be confirmed.
  6. Produce the smallest useful response and cite the official page supporting material claims.

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 12d ago First seen · 95 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A c42c2d86af54

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neo-opentelemetry is a skill published in the GitHub repository Benknightdark/neo-skills (7 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,065 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 2026-08-31.