What is observability-and-finops?

A set of instructions for connecting service monitoring, reliability checks, and cloud-cost reporting. It uses OpenTelemetry for traces, metrics, and logs; Keptn for deployment checks against reliability targets; and OpenCost or Kubecost for Kubernetes costs using the FOCUS reporting format.

Use it to instrument services, configure an OpenTelemetry Collector, define service-level objectives, add reliability gates to GitOps deployments, or produce Kubernetes cost reports.

It replaces disconnected monitoring and cost practices with consistent formats and automated deployment checks. A failed reliability check can stop a release from being promoted.

observability-and-finops — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by vaquarkh

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 vaquarkhan/platform-engineering-agent-skills --skill observability-and-finops

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vaquarkhan/platform-engineering-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 550 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00058	$0.00550
Opus 5	$0.00029	$0.00275
Sonnet 5	$0.00012	$0.00110
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00055

Measured 10d ago against content hash 390bdf3ab65e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

observability-and-finops 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/observability-and-finops/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Advanced Observability & FinOps

Core Competencies & Directives

Standardize all observability telemetry using OpenTelemetry (OTel). Configure the OpenTelemetry Collector to accept OTLP data, eliminating proprietary agent lock-in.

Define reliability targets as code using Keptn. Write AnalysisDefinition and AnalysisValueTemplate YAMLs to automate the evaluation of SLIs and SLOs during deployments.

Enforce Kubernetes cost management using OpenCost or Kubecost manifests. Ensure all cost reporting and data ingestion scripts conform to the FinOps Open Cost & Usage Specification (FOCUS) standards.

When to Use

instrumenting services with OTLP exporters
deploying OpenTelemetry Collector pipelines
authoring Keptn AnalysisDefinition / AnalysisValueTemplate
wiring SLO gates into GitOps promotion
configuring OpenCost or Kubecost and FOCUS-compliant exports

Workflow

OTel baseline — services emit OTLP; Collector receives traces, metrics, logs (no proprietary agents).
Keptn SLO gate — start from templates/keptn-analysis-definition.yaml and value templates.
GitOps integration — analysis runs on promote; failed SLO blocks /ship.
Cost visibility — deploy OpenCost or Kubecost manifests; export FOCUS-formatted usage.
Validate — references/otel-keptn-slo-checklist.md.

Coding Constraints

Never output legacy, manual deployment scripts; everything must be "as code".
Ensure cost and telemetry pipelines enforce multi-tenant RBAC/ABAC isolation.

Anti-Patterns

vendor-locked APM agents instead of OTLP
SLOs defined in runbooks but not as Keptn YAML
cost dashboards without FOCUS-normalized exports
promoting deploys without automated SLO analysis

Verification

All telemetry flows through OTLP to OpenTelemetry Collector
Keptn AnalysisDefinition and AnalysisValueTemplate committed
SLO evaluation wired to deployment promotion
OpenCost or Kubecost manifests present
Cost scripts output FOCUS-compliant records

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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.

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observability-and-finops is a skill published in the GitHub repository vaquarkhan/platform-engineering-agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 550 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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