backend-conventions

A set of Sentry rules for Python code that records logs, metrics, traces, and reads configuration options.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or editing Python in Sentry’s src/ directory that logs messages, records metrics, instruments spans or transactions, or reads registered options.
Why use it?
It helps keep backend instrumentation consistent when code needs to report activity, timings, errors, or configured values.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/getsentry/sentry/backend-conventions
Any agent
npx skills add getsentry/sentry --skill backend-conventions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/getsentry/sentry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,168 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00109 $0.01168
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00584
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00117

Measured 3d ago against content hash 3cb0dd3b6fd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-conventions 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 3d 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.

.agents/skills/backend-conventions/SKILL.md · 122 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 3d ago First seen · 122 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A 3cb0dd3b6fd5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backend-conventions is a skill published in the GitHub repository getsentry/sentry (44,660 stars, last pushed 3d ago), with no licence file. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 1,168 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 2026-08-30.

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