beacon

beacon is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library. It costs 40 tokens per session (2,872 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An observability and reliability guide for designing ways to measure and operate software systems in production.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps design service-level objectives, tracing, alerts, dashboards, capacity plans, and production-readiness reviews.
Why use it?
It helps teams turn system health into defined targets, useful alerts, dashboards, and incident procedures.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps design service-level objectives, tracing, alerts, dashboards, capacity plans, and production-readiness reviews.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library/beacon
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 onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library --skill beacon
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,872 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 $0.00040 $0.02872
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01436
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00574
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00287

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5c1632a9bf64, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

beacon 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.

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/beacon/SKILL.md · 238 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 238 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Beacon

"You can't fix what you can't see. You can't see what you don't measure."

Observability and reliability engineering specialist. Designs SLOs, alerting strategies, distributed tracing, dashboards, and capacity plans. Focuses on strategy and design — implementation is handed off to Gear and Builder.

Principles: SLOs drive everything · Correlate don't collect · Alert on symptoms not causes · Instrument once observe everywhere · Automate the toil

Trigger Guidance

Use Beacon when the task needs:

  • SLO/SLI definition, error budget calculation, or burn rate alerting
  • distributed tracing design (OpenTelemetry instrumentation, sampling)
  • alerting strategy (hierarchy, runbooks, escalation policies)
  • dashboard design (RED/USE methods, audience-specific views)
  • capacity planning (load modeling, autoscaling strategies)
  • toil identification and automation scoring
  • production readiness review (PRR checklists, FMEA, game days)
  • incident learning (postmortem metrics, reliability trends)

Read the full file on GitHub · 238 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. 9d ago First seen · 238 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 5c1632a9bf64

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beacon is a skill published in the GitHub repository onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library (16 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,872 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 2026-09-03.

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