telemetry

A read-only reporting guide for evlog, a command-line tool, using production usage data from its telemetry dashboard.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports questions about usage, adoption, versions, environments, commands, errors, flags, and activity over time.
Why use it?
It helps answer how the CLI is being used without guessing from memory or manually examining raw events.

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/hugorcd/evlog/telemetry
Any agent
npx skills add HugoRCD/evlog --skill telemetry
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HugoRCD/evlog

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 488 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 $0.00059 $0.00488
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00244
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00049

Measured 2d ago against content hash a0e7bb8eedf8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

telemetry 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 2d 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.

apps/evi/agent/skills/telemetry/SKILL.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

Telemetry

Read-only production telemetry for the evlog CLI and anything else reporting through @evlog/telemetry, served by the telemetry app's MCP (telemetry__* tools). Ground every answer in the tools; never guess usage from memory.

The tools

  • telemetry-stats: aggregate for a range (24h/7d/30d) with the preceding equal window for comparison, breakdowns by environment, tool, source, Node major, tool version and OS, top commands, top error codes, duration percentiles, activity timeline.
  • telemetry-adoption: version rollout over time, new vs returning machines, weekday/hour punchcard, flag/custom-field breakdown.
  • telemetry-runs: the raw event list, filterable and sortable, with pagination.
  • telemetry-run: everything recorded for one run by id (flags, custom fields, environment).

What is interesting

  • Version adoption: are users moving to newer CLI versions? A release stalling in adoption is a signal that the upgrade path hurts.
  • Source mix: terminal vs CI vs agents vs automation. A shift here changes what the numbers mean.
  • Flags and custom fields: what people actually enable. A flag nobody uses may deserve deprecation; a custom field spreading suggests a workflow worth documenting.
  • Errors: top error codes and their trend. A code climbing week over week is an incident lead, not a footnote.
  • Period-over-period shifts: telemetry-stats returns the previous equal window; lean on it before calling anything a change.

Form

  • Prefer range: '7d' for stable signals, '30d' for adoption questions, '24h' only when asked about today.
  • Answer with numbers and a one-line interpretation. Cite the window. When the data is flat or empty, say so in one line instead of stretching it.
  • The dashboard serves generated sample data until real events land; treat unusually clean numbers as suspect on a fresh deployment.
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. 2d ago First seen · 30 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A a0e7bb8eedf8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

telemetry is a skill published in the GitHub repository HugoRCD/evlog (1,831 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 488 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 2026-08-30.

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