swe:observability-gap-hunt

swe:observability-gap-hunt is a skill for Claude Code from ckorhonen/swe-skills. It costs 109 tokens per session (1,366 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review of a service's operational signals, including logs, metrics, traces, alerts, dashboards, and deployment-linked information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit telemetry coverage, identify missing alerting or runbook links, and create a small prioritized backlog of improvements.
Why use it?
It finds places where engineers may not have enough evidence to detect, diagnose, or respond to problems confidently.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the swe-skills plugin — 17 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit telemetry coverage, identify missing alerting or runbook links, and create a small prioritized backlog of improvements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ckorhonen/swe-skills/observability-gap-hunt
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 ckorhonen/swe-skills --skill observability-gap-hunt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ckorhonen/swe-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install swe-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,366 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 $0.00109 $0.01366
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00683
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00273
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00137

Measured 12d ago against content hash fe66b89f75ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

swe:observability-gap-hunt 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/observability-gap-hunt/SKILL.md · 215 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 215 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SWE Observability Gap Hunt

What This Skill Does

Use this skill to find observability blind spots in a repository and turn them into a small, reviewable backlog.

The job is to identify where a service or code path lacks enough signal to be operated confidently, then rank the smallest improvements that would materially improve detection, diagnosis, or alerting.

This is not a performance tuning skill. The focus is telemetry coverage and operational visibility.

When To Use

Use this skill when the user wants to:

  • audit logs, metrics, traces, alerts, or dashboards for gaps
  • check whether important workflows are observable enough to operate safely
  • find missing deployment-linked telemetry or runbook coverage
  • run a recurring observability review over time

Do Not Use

Do not use this skill for:

  • live incident response or active root-cause analysis
  • generic latency, throughput, or performance optimization
  • broad application code review with no observability goal
  • redesigning the entire monitoring stack
  • replacing existing observability tooling without repository evidence

Inputs To Confirm

Confirm or infer:

  • repository, service, or package scope
  • whether the user wants a report-only pass or a small backlog of follow-up work
  • which observability systems are available locally or in connected tools
  • whether recent incidents, deploys, or operational pain points matter
  • any no-touch areas or known noisy surfaces

If scope is unclear, narrow it to the smallest service or package set that still fits the request.

Tooling Stance

This skill is tool agnostic.

Use the strongest available evidence sources, such as:

  • application code and middleware
  • logging helpers and structured log patterns
  • metrics emitters, counters, timers, and labels
  • tracing spans and context propagation
  • alert rules and SLO definitions
  • dashboard or panel configuration
  • deploy manifests, release hooks, or health checks
  • runbooks or operational docs tied to the service

Read the full file on GitHub · 215 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 · 215 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A fe66b89f75ab

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swe:observability-gap-hunt is a skill published in the GitHub repository ckorhonen/swe-skills (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 1,366 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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