service-mesh-observability

service-mesh-observability is a skill for Claude Code from wshobson/agents. It costs 43 tokens per session (547 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An observability guide for service meshes such as Istio and Linkerd. A service mesh manages communication between services, while observability uses metrics, traces, and logs to show what is happening.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up mesh monitoring, distributed tracing, metrics, dashboards, service-level objectives, and visualizations of service communication.
Why use it?
It helps locate slow requests, errors, connectivity problems, and dependencies between services in a distributed application.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the cloud-infrastructure plugin — 8 skills, 3 agents shipped together

not rated 42krepo +637 2d ago A scan Socket: warnSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 43 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to set up mesh monitoring, distributed tracing, metrics, dashboards, service-level objectives, and visualizations of service communication.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wshobson/agents/service-mesh-observability
About the project

Agentic Plugin Marketplace is a collection of reusable plugins, agents, skills, commands, and rules for coding-agent tools including Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, and GitHub Copilot. It is for developers assembling agentic workflows across multiple harnesses from shared Markdown sources, and the catalogue entries are examples or subsets of those workflow components.

wshobson/agents · 41,709 stars · on GitHub · sethhobson.com

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 wshobson/agents --skill service-mesh-observability
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wshobson/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cloud-infrastructure, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 3 agents.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 547 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket warn 15 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 15 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00043 $0.00547
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00219
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00055

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0aaa93e88b7f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

service-mesh-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 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.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

5 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/cloud-infrastructure/skills/service-mesh-observability/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Service Mesh Observability

Complete guide to observability patterns for Istio, Linkerd, and service mesh deployments.

When to Use This Skill

  • Setting up distributed tracing across services
  • Implementing service mesh metrics and dashboards
  • Debugging latency and error issues
  • Defining SLOs for service communication
  • Visualizing service dependencies
  • Troubleshooting mesh connectivity

Core Concepts

1. Three Pillars of Observability

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                  Observability                       │
├─────────────────┬─────────────────┬─────────────────┤
│     Metrics     │     Traces      │      Logs       │
│                 │                 │                 │
│ • Request rate  │ • Span context  │ • Access logs   │
│ • Error rate    │ • Latency       │ • Error details │
│ • Latency P50   │ • Dependencies  │ • Debug info    │
│ • Saturation    │ • Bottlenecks   │ • Audit trail   │
└─────────────────┴─────────────────┴─────────────────┘

2. Golden Signals for Mesh

Signal Description Alert Threshold
Latency Request duration P50, P99 P99 > 500ms
Traffic Requests per second Anomaly detection
Errors 5xx error rate > 1%
Saturation Resource utilization > 80%

Templates and detailed worked examples

Full template library and detailed worked examples live in references/details.md. Read that file when you need the concrete templates.

Best Practices

Do's

  • Sample appropriately - 100% in dev, 1-10% in prod
  • Use trace context - Propagate headers consistently
  • Set up alerts - For golden signals
  • Correlate metrics/traces - Use exemplars
  • Retain strategically - Hot/cold storage tiers

Don'ts

  • Don't over-sample - Storage costs add up
  • Don't ignore cardinality - Limit label values
  • Don't skip dashboards - Visualize dependencies
  • Don't forget costs - Monitor observability costs

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 65 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 0aaa93e88b7f

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service-mesh-observability is a skill published in the GitHub repository wshobson/agents (41,709 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 547 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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