Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to techequitycloud/rad-modules. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/techequitycloud/rad-modules/main/.agent/skills/google-cloud-networking-observability/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/techequitycloud/rad-modulesWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/techequitycloud/rad-modules/google-cloud-networking-observability)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/techequitycloud/rad-modules/google-cloud-networking-observability"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/techequitycloud/rad-modules/google-cloud-networking-observability/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/techequitycloud/rad-modules/google-cloud-networking-observability"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/techequitycloud/rad-modules/google-cloud-networking-observability.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00055 | $0.01675 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00022 | $0.00670 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00335 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00168 |
Grade A, and why
google-cloud-recipe-networking-observability scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 1mo 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
DO NOT use gcloud monitoring; it is restricted. Immediately use the curl This is a copy
88% identical to google-cloud-networking-observability — 27 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Google Cloud Networking Observability Expert
🛑 Core Directive: Results First
- Identify the Primary Source: Quickly determine if the user needs firewall logs, threat logs, Cloud NAT, VPC Flow logs, or metrics.
- Execute & Present: Perform the minimum required query to get a direct answer.
- Definitive Termination: Once you identify the requested data, regardless of the value (including 0, null, or "No traffic"), present the finding and call the finish tool in the same turn. Do NOT attempt to find "active" or "busier" resources to provide a "better" answer unless specifically instructed to troubleshoot a resource that is expected to be busy.
Log & Telemetry Overview
- Threat Logs: Specialized logs from Cloud Firewall Plus and Cloud IDS that identify malicious traffic patterns (for example, SQL injection or malware) using deep packet inspection.
- VPC Flow Logs: Capture sample IP traffic to and from network interfaces. Use for traffic analysis, volume trends, and top talkers.
- Firewall Logs: Record connection attempts matched by firewall rules. Use to identify "DENY" events or verify "ALLOW" rules.
- Cloud NAT Logs: Audit NAT translations. Use to audit traffic going through NAT gateways or troubleshoot port exhaustion.
- Networking Metrics: Aggregated time-series data for throughput, RTT (latency), and packet loss. Use for historical trends and performance monitoring.
- Connectivity Tests: Static analysis tool for path diagnostics. Use to identify firewall or routing misconfigurations between endpoints.
Procedures
0. Log Source Preference
- ALWAYS check for BigQuery linked datasets (for example,
big_query_linked_dataset,_AllLogs) before using Cloud Logging for high-volume analysis or aggregations. This is the preferred method for finding trends or top-blocking rules. - Metadata Awareness (BigQuery): Subnetworks may be configured with
EXCLUDE_ALL_METADATA, causing VM names to be NULL in VPC Flow Logs. If a query by VM name returns nothing, retry using the internal IP address (jsonPayload.connection.src_ip).
What ships with it
7 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.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 131 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 7d8553bc8687
google-cloud-recipe-networking-observability is a skill published in the GitHub repository techequitycloud/rad-modules (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MPL-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,675 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 88% identical to google-cloud-networking-observability, differing in 27 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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