opentelemetry-docs

opentelemetry-docs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cookieMonsterDev/agents-skills. It costs 80 tokens per session (1,080 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide for OpenTelemetry, an open-source system for collecting traces, metrics, and logs from software so its operation can be observed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find guidance on instrumenting applications, configuring language libraries and the OpenTelemetry Collector, exporting data with OTLP, using standard naming conventions, and troubleshooting integrations.
Why use it?
It helps answer OpenTelemetry questions from the correct official documentation instead of relying on memory or instructions for a different monitoring product.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to find guidance on instrumenting applications, configuring language libraries and the OpenTelemetry Collector, exporting data with OTLP, using standard naming conventions, and troubleshooting integrations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cookiemonsterdev/agents-skills/opentelemetry-docs
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 cookieMonsterDev/agents-skills --skill opentelemetry-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cookieMonsterDev/agents-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,080 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 $0.00080 $0.01080
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00432
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00108

Measured 1mo ago against content hash bb1e1e3c214a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

opentelemetry-docs 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 1mo 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.

docs-skills/opentelemetry-docs/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenTelemetry questions are easy to answer from stale memory or vendor-specific SDK assumptions. Use this skill to ground answers in the official OpenTelemetry documentation and return the closest authoritative page instead of generic observability advice.

When to Use

Use this skill when the request is about:

  • OpenTelemetry concepts, signals, and architecture
  • Getting started by role: developer, operator, or architect
  • Language APIs and SDKs for traces, metrics, and logs
  • Zero-code or auto-instrumentation agents
  • The OpenTelemetry Collector: receivers, processors, exporters, and pipelines
  • Semantic conventions and instrumentation libraries
  • OTLP export, compatibility, and integration with other observability tools
  • Blueprints, reference implementations, and deployment guidance
  • Security, specifications, and contributing to OpenTelemetry

Do not use this skill for:

  • Grafana dashboard design or Loki query syntax when the question is Grafana-specific. Use grafana-docs instead.
  • Raw Prometheus scrape config without OpenTelemetry context unless the user is bridging OTel to Prometheus per OTel docs.
  • Vendor product docs (Datadog, New Relic, Honeycomb) unless the question is specifically about OpenTelemetry integration patterns documented on opentelemetry.io.
  • Application logging frameworks without telemetry export context unless tied to OpenTelemetry logs.

Workflow

1. Classify the request

Decide which bucket the question belongs to before searching:

  • Concepts and getting started
  • Language SDK instrumentation
  • Zero-code instrumentation
  • Collector configuration and deployment
  • Signals: traces, metrics, and logs
  • Platforms and environments
  • Blueprints and reference architectures
  • Compatibility and specifications
  • Security and operations

If you need a quick starting point, load references/topic-map.md and jump to the closest starting page. For broader discovery, the live docs index is at https://opentelemetry.io/llms.txt.

2. Search official OpenTelemetry docs first

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 103 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A bb1e1e3c214a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

opentelemetry-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository cookieMonsterDev/agents-skills (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 1,080 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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