observability-readiness

observability-readiness is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from evolplus/talos. It costs 61 tokens per session (578 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A release-readiness check for confirming that deployed services can be observed and diagnosed. It checks logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, health checks, synthetic probes, service-level signals, and runbooks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before staging or production deployment and before enabling traffic. It produces a readiness decision, missing-telemetry findings, monitoring references, probe evidence, and deployment-report details.
Why use it?
It finds missing operational signals before a release receives traffic. This makes failures, slowdowns, and user-impacting problems easier to detect and investigate.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the talos plugin — 55 skills, 2 commands, 4 hooks shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/evolplus/talos/observability-readiness
Any agent
npx skills add evolplus/talos --skill observability-readiness
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/evolplus/talos

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install talos, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills, 2 commands, 4 hooks.

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.

agentmods badge for observability-readiness

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 578 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00061 $0.00578
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00289
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00058

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2780424e080a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

observability-readiness 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.

skills/observability-readiness/SKILL.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Observability Readiness

When to use

Use this skill before staging/production deployment, before enabling traffic, and during release readiness for features whose failure needs operational detection.

Inputs and outputs

  • Inputs: architecture/instrumentation contract, service list, health endpoints, expected logs/metrics/traces, dashboards/alerts, target environment, and incident runbook references.
  • Outputs: observability readiness verdict, missing telemetry findings, dashboard/alert references, smoke probe evidence, and deploy-report observability fields.

Procedure

  1. Map critical signals. For each deployed service, identify health endpoint, readiness/liveness signal, key logs, metrics, traces, and business/user-impact indicators.
  2. Check deploy-time telemetry. Verify the new version emits startup logs, request logs, errors, latency, saturation/resource metrics, background job signals, and dependency health.
  3. Verify correlation. Confirm request IDs/correlation IDs connect frontend, backend, workers, and external calls where applicable.
  4. Confirm dashboards and alerts. Record dashboard names/links and alert names/status. Use names or URLs only; do not include tokens or private query credentials.
  5. Define smoke/synthetic probes. List post-deploy probes for user flows, API health, queues, scheduled jobs, and external integrations.
  6. Check runbook path. Ensure a human can move from alert to runbook to rollback/mitigation path.
  7. Emit verdict. ready, ready-with-gaps, or blocked.

Hard rules

  • Never promote a high-risk deployment with no health signal, no alert, and no rollback trigger.
  • Never expose sensitive logs, PII, auth headers, trace baggage, API keys, or dashboard tokens.
  • Never treat "container running" as observability readiness.
  • Never invent SLOs or alert thresholds; record missing contracts as follow-up work.
  • Never mark observability ready when incident responders cannot identify service/version/environment from telemetry.

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 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. 4d ago First seen · 44 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 2780424e080a

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observability-readiness is a skill published in the GitHub repository evolplus/talos (8 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 578 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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