df-observability

df-observability is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OneDro1d/dark-factory. It costs 75 tokens per session (707 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for making a system's behavior visible through usable dashboards, logs, traces, health checks, and alerts. A trace is a record that follows one request or test scenario through the system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define monitoring requirements, expose metrics and structured logs, connect scenario IDs to traces, verify dashboards show live data, and set up alerts.
Why use it?
It helps people and coding agents find whether a scenario ran, where it succeeded or failed, and whether customers are likely to notice a problem first.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to define monitoring requirements, expose metrics and structured logs, connect scenario IDs to traces, verify dashboards show live data, and set up alerts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/onedro1d/dark-factory/df-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 OneDro1d/dark-factory --skill df-observability
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OneDro1d/dark-factory

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 707 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 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 $0.00075 $0.00707
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00353
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00071

Measured 8d ago against content hash bfd450fe168f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

df-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 8d 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/df-observability/SKILL.md · 34 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 34 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dark Factory — Observability Standard (the agents' eyes)

Overview

Observability is the sensory apparatus the agents use to build, deploy, and test — not optional garnish. Emitting telemetry is necessary but not sufficient: a :9090/metrics endpoint nobody can see is not observability. This standard makes the consumable surface a named, verified deliverable.

Rule of thumb: if an agent cannot answer "did scenario TS-0x run, and where did it succeed or fail?" by looking at a dashboard or running one query, the system is not observable yet — no matter how many metrics it emits.

The three legs — Emit → Surface → Act

Leg Question Owner Artifact
Emit Is telemetry produced? Developer (service anatomy) :9090/metrics, JSON logs w/ correlationId, :8080/healthz, DLQ depth
Surface Can a human/agent see and query it? SA designs · Infra builds · QA verifies dashboards + queryable log/trace views that render live data (the historically missing leg)
Act Does it fire before customers notice? SA names · Infra wires alerts → a sink

Emission is platform default (deltas only). Surface is product-specific and must be delivered + verified — that is the gap this standard closes.

Required baseline dashboard set (the floor)

Flow/saga (end-to-end path of each PO scenario) · Throughput · Tiered failure log filtered by the log level field ("level":"ERROR"), not a substring (?i)error (substring matching floods false positives from name collisions) · Correlation/trace lookup (a $correlationId variable pulling every log + span across services) · DLQ + queue depth · Latency (p50/p95/p99) · System health. Panels keyed to PO scenarios.

The acceptance bar — "verified rendering live data"

A dashboard that POSTs valid JSON but shows "No data" is not delivered. Every view reachable at a known URL; every panel renders live data (against the datasource, not just schema-valid); $correlationId returns real cross-service results; every alert rule evaluates. Verification is by observation, not assertion.

Read the full file on GitHub · 34 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. 8d ago First seen · 34 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A bfd450fe168f

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df-observability is a skill published in the GitHub repository OneDro1d/dark-factory (0 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 707 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-01.

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