What is renovate-otel-core?

A maintenance playbook for fixing failed Renovate updates to OpenTelemetry Collector dependencies. Renovate is a tool that opens automated dependency-update changes, while OpenTelemetry Collector is software for receiving and exporting telemetry such as logs, metrics, and traces.

Use it when a Renovate change updates the OpenTelemetry Collector core, contrib components, APIs, SDKs, or builder tools and automated checks remain failing.

These related dependencies must stay compatible, and failed updates need repository-specific checks and regeneration steps rather than arbitrary edits.

How liatrio/liatrio-otel-collector configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to liatrio/liatrio-otel-collector. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liatrio/liatrio-otel-collector/main/.claude/skills/renovate-otel-core/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/liatrio/liatrio-otel-collector

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 194 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,316 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00194	$0.01316
Opus 5.5	$0.00078	$0.00526
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00039	$0.00263
Haiku 4.5	$0.00019	$0.00132

Measured 22d ago against content hash 54ff1c759498, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

renovate-otel-core 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 22d 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.

.claude/skills/renovate-otel-core/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Playbook: OTel collector core & contrib (lockstep group)

Selected by the group:otel-core-contrib label, which Renovate applies to its otel collector core & contrib deps group. This is the repository's single most consequential dependency group: it moves the collector core, the contrib components, and the OTel API/SDK modules in lockstep, because OCB requires every component compiled into the distribution — plus the mdatagen/builder tools that generate and assemble it — to share a compatible core version.

Why these modules move together (the lockstep rationale)

Lifted and expanded from the description on this group in renovate.json:

OCB compatibility. The OpenTelemetry Collector Builder assembles the otelcol-custom binary from config/manifest.yaml. Every go.opentelemetry.io/collector* and opentelemetry-collector-contrib/* dependency — across the manifest, every component go.mod, and internal/tools/go.mod's mdatagen/builder — must be on a mutually compatible core version. Bumping them one-at-a-time produces a build where components disagree on the core API and OCB fails to assemble.
The OTel API/SDK belongs here too (Open Question #5, resolved: include). go.opentelemetry.io/otel and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/** (the API/SDK, distinct from .../collector) are direct dependencies of the custom receivers and are pinned to a version the collector core requires. Before this decision they matched neither the include nor the exclude list and fell through to generic gomod handling, so Renovate proposed them as independent one-at-a-time PRs — reintroducing exactly the version skew this group exists to prevent (a receiver on a newer otel/metric than the collector core it compiles into). They are now in matchPackageNames so a single PR moves core + contrib + API/SDK as one coherent set.
Rule ordering. This rule is placed last in packageRules so it overrides the generic tool deps grouping for mdatagen/builder specifically (last-rule-wins).

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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.

22d ago First seen · 75 lines · 194 tokens per session scan A 54ff1c759498

Subscribe to this mod's changes

renovate-otel-core is a skill published in the GitHub repository liatrio/liatrio-otel-collector (47 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 194 tokens to every session and 1,316 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-15.

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