sota-observability

sota-observability is a skill for Claude Code from martinholovsky/SOTA-skills. It costs 159 tokens per session (1,731 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC-BY-4.0.

A guide to adding or reviewing observability and reliability practices in software systems. Observability means collecting enough logs, metrics, and traces to understand what a system is doing and why it failed or slowed down.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding structured logs, metrics, OpenTelemetry tracing, service-level objectives, alerts, health endpoints, or auditing an existing codebase.
Why use it?
It helps teams diagnose incidents and judge whether an on-call engineer can identify the cause of a problem quickly.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the sota-skills plugin — 42 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when adding structured logs, metrics, OpenTelemetry tracing, service-level objectives, alerts, health endpoints, or auditing an existing codebase.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-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 martinholovsky/SOTA-skills --skill sota-observability
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/martinholovsky/SOTA-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sota-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 42 skills, 1 hook.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 159 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,731 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 unknown 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 $0.00159 $0.01731
Opus 5 $0.00079 $0.00865
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00346
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00173

Measured 7d ago against content hash 3657242df85a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sota-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 7d 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/sota-observability/SKILL.md · 123 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed CC-BY-4.0

The repository is licensed CC-BY-4.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 7d ago Changed 3657242df85a
  2. 11d ago First seen · 123 lines · 159 tokens per session scan A e7040e9f453b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sota-observability is a skill published in the GitHub repository martinholovsky/SOTA-skills (19 stars, last pushed today), licensed CC-BY-4.0. It adds 159 tokens to every session and 1,731 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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