instrumenting-with-mlflow-tracing

instrumenting-with-mlflow-tracing is a skill for Claude Code from mlflow/skills. It costs 122 tokens per session (1,521 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for adding MLflow Tracing to Python, TypeScript, and JavaScript applications. Tracing records operations such as model calls, searches, tool calls, decisions, timing, inputs, outputs, and failures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add observability to agents and language-model applications, including their searches, tools, external services, and decision steps.
Why use it?
It shows what parts of an AI application are worth recording, making later debugging and quality review more informative. It also helps avoid recording unnecessary low-level details.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the mlflow plugin — 12 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to add observability to agents and language-model applications, including their searches, tools, external services, and decision steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mlflow/skills/instrumenting-with-mlflow-tracing
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 mlflow/skills --skill instrumenting-with-mlflow-tracing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mlflow/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mlflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,521 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
  • Socket pass 31 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 31 Mar 2026
  • 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 $0.00122 $0.01521
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.00760
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00304
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00152

Measured yesterday against content hash 368fdfae0530, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

instrumenting-with-mlflow-tracing 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 yesterday.

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.

instrumenting-with-mlflow-tracing/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MLflow Tracing Instrumentation Guide

Language-Specific Guides

Based on the user's project, load the appropriate guide:

  • Python projects: Read references/python.md
  • TypeScript/JavaScript projects: Read references/typescript.md

If unclear, check for package.json (TypeScript) or requirements.txt/pyproject.toml (Python) in the project.


Databricks: verify auth before the first run

When the target is a Databricks workspace, confirm auth and the target workspace before running instrumented code. An expired token, or a default profile pointed at the wrong workspace, drops traces silently at export with no error raised.

databricks auth token --profile <name>   # fails if the token is expired. Re-run: databricks auth login --profile <name>
python -c "import mlflow; print(mlflow.get_tracking_uri())"   # confirm it targets the intended workspace

What to Trace

Trace these operations (high debugging/observability value):

Operation Type Examples Why Trace
Root operations Main entry points, top-level pipelines, workflow steps End-to-end latency, input/output logging
LLM calls Chat completions, embeddings Token usage, latency, prompt/response inspection
Retrieval Vector DB queries, document fetches, search Relevance debugging, retrieval quality
Tool/function calls API calls, database queries, web search External dependency monitoring, error tracking
Agent decisions Routing, planning, tool selection Understand agent reasoning and choices
External services HTTP APIs, file I/O, message queues Dependency failures, timeout tracking

Skip tracing these (too granular, adds noise):

  • Simple data transformations (dict/list manipulation)
  • String formatting, parsing, validation
  • Configuration loading, environment setup
  • Logging or metric emission
  • Pure utility functions (math, sorting, filtering)

Rule of thumb: Trace operations that are important for debugging and identifying issues in your application.

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. yesterday Changed · +11 lines 368fdfae0530
  2. 12d ago First seen · 135 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 0e4f5afe5c8f

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instrumenting-with-mlflow-tracing is a skill published in the GitHub repository mlflow/skills (75 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 1,521 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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