What is application-observability-instana-bob?

A project-specific guide for building and operating an autonomous site-reliability app. The app uses Instana monitoring data, a React interface, an Express bridge, and an AI agent for diagnosing service problems.

It is for building, extending, testing, operating, and debugging this Instana-based monitoring assistant.

It gives the agent the app's technical rules, interfaces, design details, and checks in one place when changing or troubleshooting it.

application-observability-instana-bob — Skill by ibm-self-serve-assets

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.

Any agent

npx skills add ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks --skill application-observability-instana-bob

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 16,198 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 1 finding. 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00059	$0.16198
Opus 5.5	$0.00024	$0.06479
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00012	$0.03240
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.01620

Measured 2d ago against content hash d0112320f318, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

application-observability-instana-bob scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| **M1: Bridge & Mock** | Implement `mockData.mjs`, `mockRoutes.mjs`, `index.mjs` with `/api/health`. | `node server/index.mjs` & `curl http://localhost:3001/api/health` |

ibm-bob/skills/application-observability-instana-bob/SKILL.md · 1,074 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,074 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Autonomous Instana Bob App — Comprehensive Skill & Operational Guide

Skill Identifier: autonomous-instana-bob-app
Source of Truth: instana-bob-app/SPEC.md & SPEC_UI.md
Classification: Project-Specific SRE Engineering, Architecture, UI/UX & Operations Reference
Target Environment: Node.js 20 LTS, React 18 / Vite 6, IBM Carbon Design System v11 (Gray 100 / g100), Python 3.11 (mcp-instana), IBM Bob Inference API (claude-opus-4-5)

1. Skill Purpose & Activation Scenarios

1.1 Core Mission

This skill equips IBM Bob with the operational expertise, technical rules, API contracts, UI/UX design specifications, prompt structures, and verification workflows required to build, maintain, troubleshoot, and evolve the Autonomous Instana Bob App.

The application functions as an AI-powered autonomous Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) assistant that:

Ingests APM telemetry from IBM Instana via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) using the mcp-instana STDIO server.
Performs autonomous multi-turn diagnostic loops using the IBM Bob Inference API (claude-opus-4-5).
Visualizes cluster topologies and application health via an IBM Carbon Design System v11 dark theme (g100) dashboard.
Operates in dual stream modes: a 100% offline simulation engine with 5 injectable failure scenarios (STREAM_MODE=mock) and a live enterprise telemetry pipeline (STREAM_MODE=realtime).

1.2 When to Activate This Skill

Bob should activate this skill when:

Designing or implementing frontend components, views, or telemetry visualizations in src/.
Styling UI elements to adhere strictly to IBM Carbon Design System v11 Gray 100 (g100) tokens and IBM Plex typography.
Modifying backend routing, MCP tool calling, or LLM agent loops in server/index.mjs.
Adding or adjusting failure scenarios in server/mockData.mjs or server/mockRoutes.mjs.
Troubleshooting MCP connection failures, stdio buffer truncation, or SSE stream latency.
Executing milestone builds (M0–M8), running smoke tests, or containerizing the app for Kubernetes/OpenShift.
Integrating external Headless Bob daemon instances via the /hb/* proxy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,074 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.

2d ago First seen · 1,074 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A d0112320f318

Subscribe to this mod's changes

application-observability-instana-bob is a skill published in the GitHub repository ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks (28 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 16,198 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-11-11.

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