agent-observability-trace-rca

agent-observability-trace-rca is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from neverinfamous/mysql-mcp. It costs 102 tokens per session (10,553 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of agent-observability-trace-rca, MIT.

A troubleshooting guide for finding the underlying cause of failures in applications that use large language models. It examines production traces, which record the steps an application took while running.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate runtime errors, evaluation failures, and unusual trace structures by following the recorded operations from symptom to likely root cause.
Why use it?
It helps separate the visible error from the deeper problem in a multi-step AI application.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to investigate runtime errors, evaluation failures, and unusual trace structures by following the recorded operations from symptom to likely root cause.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/neverinfamous/mysql-mcp/agent-observability-trace-rca
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 neverinfamous/mysql-mcp --skill agent-observability-trace-rca
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neverinfamous/mysql-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,553 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00102 $0.10553
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.05276
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.02111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.01055

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2f0ef728fba1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-observability-trace-rca 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (evals/__init__.py, evals/evaluator.py, evals/executor.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to agent-observability-trace-rca — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/datadog/agent-observability/agent-observability-trace-rca/SKILL.md · 785 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 785 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backend

Detection — At the start of every invocation, before taking any action, determine which backend to use:

  1. If the user passed --backend pup anywhere in their invocation → use pup mode immediately, regardless of whether MCP tools are present. Skip steps 2–4.
  2. Check whether MCP tools are present in your active tool list. The canonical signal is whether mcp__datadog-llmo-mcp__list_llmobs_evals appears in your available tools.
  3. If MCP tools are present → use MCP mode throughout. Call MCP tools exactly as named in this skill's workflow sections.
  4. If MCP tools are absent → check whether pup is executable: run pup --version via Bash. A JSON response containing "version" confirms pup is available.
  5. If pup responds → use pup mode throughout. Translate every MCP tool call to its pup equivalent using the Tool Reference appendix at the bottom of this file.
  6. If neither is available → stop and tell the user:

    "Neither the Datadog MCP server nor the pup CLI is available. Connect the MCP server (claude mcp add --scope user --transport http datadog-llmo-mcp 'https://mcp.datadoghq.com/api/unstable/mcp-server/mcp?toolsets=llmobs') or install pup."

--backend pup is accepted anywhere in the invocation arguments and is stripped before passing remaining args to the skill logic.

pup invocation rules:

  • Invoke via Bash: pup llm-obs <subcommand> [flags]
  • pup always outputs JSON. Parse directly — no content-block unwrapping (unlike MCP results, which may wrap JSON in [{"type": "text", "text": "<json>"}]).
  • If pup returns an auth error, tell the user to run pup auth login and stop.
  • Parallelization: issue multiple Bash tool calls in a single message (one pup command per call).
  • Time flags: pup accepts bare duration strings (1h, 7d, 30m) and RFC3339 timestamps. Do not use now--prefixed strings — strip the prefix when converting from a skill --timeframe argument: now-7d7d, now-24h24h, now-30d30d.
  • --summary on pup llm-obs spans search strips payload fields to essential metadata only. Use it in bulk/search phases where content is not needed.

Invocation ID: At the very start of each invocation, before any MCP tool call, generate an 8-character hex invocation ID (e.g., 3a9f1c2b). Keep it constant for the entire invocation.

Intent tagging: On every MCP tool call, prefix telemetry.intent with skill:agent-observability-trace-rca[<inv_id>] — followed by a description of why the tool is being called. On the first MCP tool call only, use skill:agent-observability-trace-rca:start[<inv_id>] — instead (note the :start suffix). Example first call: skill:agent-observability-trace-rca:start[3a9f1c2b] — Phase 0: discover configured evals for task-cruncher to infer analysis mode

Read the full file on GitHub · 785 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 9d ago First seen · 785 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 2f0ef728fba1

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agent-observability-trace-rca is a skill published in the GitHub repository neverinfamous/mysql-mcp (10 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 10,553 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to agent-observability-trace-rca, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.