maintain-observability

maintain-observability is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay. It costs 23 tokens per session (789 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A maintenance guide for keeping NeMo Relay’s observability outputs consistent. Observability means recording what software is doing so it can be monitored and diagnosed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing event fields, exporter behavior, subscriber settings, or ATIF and OpenTelemetry output. It also covers updating related documentation and bindings.
Why use it?
It helps prevent event fields, exporter settings, and language bindings from drifting apart. This reduces inconsistent monitoring data across Rust, Python, Go, and Node.js.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nvidia/nemo-relay/maintain-observability
Any agent
npx skills add NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay --skill maintain-observability
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 789 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00023 $0.00789
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00394
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00079

Measured 4d ago against content hash f9adfb3d613e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

maintain-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 4d 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.

.agents/skills/maintain-observability/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Maintain Observability Surfaces

Companion Guidance

Use karpathy-guidelines alongside this skill for implementation or review work. Keep changes scoped, surface assumptions, and define focused validation before editing.

Use this skill when changing event fields, exporter behavior, subscriber config, or binding parity for ATIF or the full, gen_ai, and openinference OpenTelemetry projections.

Surfaces To Keep In Sync

  • Core event model and emitted fields
  • crates/core/src/observability/atif.rs
  • crates/core/src/observability/otel.rs
  • crates/core/src/observability/openinference.rs
  • FFI and binding-native wrappers where the config or lifecycle is exposed
  • Python, Go, and Node.js config objects and subscriber/exporter methods
  • Observability config version 3, where one opentelemetry section contains typed endpoints and OpenInference has no standalone public surface
  • Docs under docs/about-nemo-relay/concepts/subscribers.mdx and docs/configure-plugins/observability/

Design Checklist

  • Is this an event-model change, exporter-config change, or lifecycle change?
  • Do all bindings expose the same logical knobs and semantics?
  • Does every OpenTelemetry endpoint require a type and nonblank destination?
  • Does each endpoint resolve header_env values at activation and reject missing, blank, or duplicate headers?
  • Do layered ATOF sink, ATIF storage, and OpenTelemetry endpoint lists concatenate with higher-precedence entries first?
  • Are OpenTelemetry and OpenInference dependencies unconditional rather than Cargo feature-gated?
  • Does gen_ai avoid nemo_relay.*, project sanitized LLM instructions and messages into the standard content attributes, and emit minimal spans for scopes without GenAI semantics so their parentage is preserved?
  • Does enable_full_payloads preserve complete sanitized LLM request input and annotations while leaving credential removal and sanitizers active?
  • Does Relay derive compliant trace and span IDs consistently across typed OpenTelemetry endpoints while preserving lifecycle parentage?
  • Are mark events, start/end events, and orphan cases still handled correctly?
  • Does a sanitized tool result annotation remain opaque under category_profile.tool_result_annotation, ATIF observation-result extra.tool_result_annotation, and the single nemo_relay.tool.result.annotation attribute in full and openinference, while gen_ai omits it?
  • Do examples and docs use each exporter's documented flush/deregister order before shutdown?
  • Are span or trajectory fields still derived from the intended event data?

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 4d ago First seen · 79 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A f9adfb3d613e

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maintain-observability is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay (140 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 789 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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