eBPF Observability

eBPF Observability is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from j4flmao/agent-skills. It costs 16 tokens per session (300 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to monitoring and tracing Linux at the kernel level with eBPF. eBPF lets small programs observe events such as system calls while data is collected for inspection.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to trace system calls such as process execution and connect kernel events to an observability tool.
Why use it?
It helps investigate what applications and processes are doing inside the operating system, including behavior that ordinary application logs may miss.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to trace system calls such as process execution and connect kernel events to an observability tool.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/j4flmao/agent-skills/ebpf-observability
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 j4flmao/agent-skills --skill ebpf-observability
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/j4flmao/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Your own site
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agentmods 80×15 button for eBPF Observability

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 300 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00016 $0.00300
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00150
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00030

Measured 8d ago against content hash 69071bd6dbbd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

eBPF Observability 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 8d 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/cloud-native/ebpf-observability/SKILL.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

eBPF Observability

Focus on creating kernel-level monitoring and tracing applications using eBPF.

eBPF Snippet (C)

#include <uapi/linux/ptrace.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>

BPF_HASH(start, u32);

int do_sys_execve(struct pt_regs *ctx) {
    u32 pid = bpf_get_current_pid_tgid();
    u64 ts = bpf_ktime_get_ns();
    start.update(&pid, &ts);
    return 0;
}

Loader Snippet (Python)

from bcc import BPF

b = BPF(text="""...""")
b.attach_kprobe(event=b.get_syscall_fnname("execve"), fn_name="do_sys_execve")
print("Tracing execve... Ctrl-C to end.")
try:
    b.trace_print()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    exit()

Trace Diagram

%%{init: {"theme": "default", "flowchart": {"useMaxWidth": true}}}%%
graph TD
    A["User Space App"] -->|"Syscall"| B("Kernel Space")
    B --> C{"eBPF Program"}
    C -->|"Collects Data"| D["eBPF Map"]
    D -->|"Reads"| E["Observability Agent"]
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. 8d ago First seen · 47 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 69071bd6dbbd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

eBPF Observability is a skill published in the GitHub repository j4flmao/agent-skills (23 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 300 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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