slos-and-triggers

slos-and-triggers is a skill for Claude Code from honeycombio/agent-skill. It costs 209 tokens per session (1,548 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to service-level objectives, or SLOs, and triggers in Honeycomb. SLOs measure whether a service meets a reliability target over time, while triggers detect an immediate condition such as too many errors.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define service-level indicators, interpret error-budget burn, choose alert thresholds, and decide when to slow deployments or page an on-call engineer.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish long-term reliability commitments from alerts about something broken now, and helps identify misleading or poorly configured measurements.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the honeycomb plugin — 11 skills, 1 command, 2 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to define service-level indicators, interpret error-budget burn, choose alert thresholds, and decide when to slow deployments or page an on-call engineer.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add honeycombio/agent-skill
Claude Code
/plugin install honeycomb

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install honeycomb, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 1 command, 2 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 209 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,548 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 $0.00209 $0.01548
Opus 5 $0.00105 $0.00774
Sonnet 5 $0.00042 $0.00310
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00155

Measured 11d ago against content hash 0b73933d7a43, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slos-and-triggers 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 11d 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.

honeycomb/skills/slos-and-triggers/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Honeycomb SLOs and Triggers

Guidance for configuring and reasoning about reliability in Honeycomb. The get_slos and get_triggers tools document their own parameters — this skill focuses on designing effective SLOs, choosing between SLOs and triggers, and interpreting what the numbers mean.

Availability: SLOs require Pro or Enterprise plan. Triggers available on all plans.

SLO vs Trigger — When to Use Which

Question SLO Trigger
"Are we meeting our reliability commitments?" Yes No
"Is something broken right now?" No Yes
"How fast are we burning our error budget?" Yes (burn alerts) No
"Did error count exceed a threshold?" No Yes
"Should we slow down deploys?" Yes (budget remaining) No

Rule of thumb: SLOs measure reliability against commitments over time. Triggers catch immediate operational issues.

Designing Effective SLOs

Define the SLI

An SLI is a per-event boolean: was this event successful? Implemented as a calculated field returning undefined (not a relevant event), 1 (success), or 0 (failure).

  • Format: IF(<qualifying-condition>, <success-condition>) The qualifying condition filters to relevant events; the success condition defines what counts as success. If the qualifying condition is not met, the formula returns undefined, and the SLI is unpopulated.
  • Specific Qualifying Condition: Choose the relevant subset of events (e.g. AND(EQUALS($http.route, "/checkout"), NOT(EXISTS($trace.parent_id))) for root spans of checkout endpoint)
  • Latency Success Condition: LTE(duration_ms, 500) — requests faster than 500ms
  • Availability Success Condition: LTE(http.status_code, 499) — non-5xx responses
  • Business Logic Success Condition: EQUALS(checkout.status, "completed") — successful checkouts

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 11d ago First seen · 142 lines · 209 tokens per session scan A 0b73933d7a43

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slos-and-triggers is a skill published in the GitHub repository honeycombio/agent-skill (22 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 209 tokens to every session and 1,548 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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