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.
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00043 | $0.02561 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00022 | $0.01281 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00512 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00256 |
Grade A, and why
service-mesh-observability 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 4d 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.
This is a copy
86% identical to service-mesh-observability — 339 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 384 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Service Mesh Observability
Complete guide to observability patterns for Istio, Linkerd, and service mesh deployments.
When to Use This Skill
- Setting up distributed tracing across services
- Implementing service mesh metrics and dashboards
- Debugging latency and error issues
- Defining SLOs for service communication
- Visualizing service dependencies
- Troubleshooting mesh connectivity
Core Concepts
1. Three Pillars of Observability
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Observability │
├─────────────────┬─────────────────┬─────────────────┤
│ Metrics │ Traces │ Logs │
│ │ │ │
│ • Request rate │ • Span context │ • Access logs │
│ • Error rate │ • Latency │ • Error details │
│ • Latency P50 │ • Dependencies │ • Debug info │
│ • Saturation │ • Bottlenecks │ • Audit trail │
└─────────────────┴─────────────────┴─────────────────┘
2. Golden Signals for Mesh
| Signal | Description | Alert Threshold |
|---|---|---|
| Latency | Request duration P50, P99 | P99 > 500ms |
| Traffic | Requests per second | Anomaly detection |
| Errors | 5xx error rate | > 1% |
| Saturation | Resource utilization | > 80% |
Templates
Template 1: Istio with Prometheus & Grafana
# Install Prometheus
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
name: prometheus
namespace: istio-system
data:
prometheus.yml: |
global:
scrape_interval: 15s
scrape_configs:
- job_name: 'istio-mesh'
kubernetes_sd_configs:
- role: endpoints
namespaces:
names:
- istio-system
relabel_configs:
- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_service_name]
action: keep
regex: istio-telemetry
---
# ServiceMonitor for Prometheus Operator
apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
kind: ServiceMonitor
metadata:
name: istio-mesh
namespace: istio-system
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
app: istiod
endpoints:
- port: http-monitoring
interval: 15s
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 384 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A f256417d5069
service-mesh-observability is a skill published in the GitHub repository EngineerWithAI/engineerwith-agents (4 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 2,561 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to service-mesh-observability, differing in 339 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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