network-tracing

network-tracing is a skill for Claude Code from nexus-labs-automation/mobile-observability. It costs 31 tokens per session (666 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for adding tracing to API requests. Tracing records a request’s path through an app and its backend so the parts of a slow or failed request can be linked together.

In plain words
What is it for?
Recording request methods, status codes, paths, durations, response sizes, and identifiers that connect mobile requests with backend traces.
Why use it?
It makes it easier to find where delays and API failures occur instead of investigating client and server logs separately.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the mobile-observability plugin — 8 skills, 2 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Recording request methods, status codes, paths, durations, response sizes, and identifiers that connect mobile requests with backend traces.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nexus-labs-automation/mobile-observability/network-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 nexus-labs-automation/mobile-observability --skill network-tracing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nexus-labs-automation/mobile-observability

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mobile-observability, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 2 commands, 2 agents.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 666 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 $0.00031 $0.00666
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00333
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00067

Measured 10d ago against content hash 957a5fd09425, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

network-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 10d 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/network-tracing/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Network Tracing

Measure API requests and correlate with backend traces.

What to Capture (OTel-Compatible Names)

Attribute OTel Name Purpose
Method http.request.method GET, POST, etc.
Status http.response.status_code Success/failure
URL url.path Endpoint (sanitized)
Duration http.request.duration Request time (ms)
Size http.response.body.size Payload bytes

Using OTel naming = easier migration when OTel mobile matures. See references/otel-mobile.md for rationale.

Distributed Tracing

Propagate trace context to backend:

Client Request
    │
    ├── traceparent: 00-{trace_id}-{span_id}-01
    ├── X-Request-Id: {uuid}
    └── X-Session-Id: {session}
         │
         ▼
    Backend (correlates logs with trace_id)

Key Thresholds

Metric Good Acceptable Poor
API p50 <500ms <1s >1s
API p95 <2s <5s >5s
Error rate <1% <3% >3%

Integration Options

Choose based on existing vendor:

Vendor iOS Android Approach
Sentry Auto URLSession swizzling OkHttp integration Automatic
Datadog URLSession delegate OkHttp interceptor Semi-auto
Embrace Auto-instrumentation Auto-instrumentation Automatic
New Relic Auto URLSession instrumentation Auto OkHttp/HttpURLConnection Automatic
Custom Manual interceptor Manual interceptor Manual

Automatic (swizzling): Less code, may miss custom clients Manual (interceptors): More control, works with any HTTP client

Platform Integration Points

Platform Manual Option Works With
iOS URLSession delegate All URLSession-based clients
iOS Alamofire EventMonitor Alamofire
Android OkHttp Interceptor OkHttp, Retrofit
Android Ktor HttpClientPlugin Ktor
RN fetch wrapper Native fetch
RN axios interceptor axios

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 88 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 957a5fd09425

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network-tracing is a skill published in the GitHub repository nexus-labs-automation/mobile-observability (116 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 666 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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