statsd

statsd is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from xobotyi/cc-foundry. It costs 74 tokens per session (2,092 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for adding StatsD monitoring metrics to software. StatsD is a service that receives small measurements such as request counts, current values, and timings over the network.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when sending counters, gauges, timers, histograms, sets, or distributions to StatsD, including DogStatsD tags and sampling settings.
Why use it?
It helps avoid choosing the wrong measurement type or naming metrics inconsistently, which can make monitoring data misleading without obvious errors.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the backend plugin — 4 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xobotyi/cc-foundry/statsd
Any agent
npx skills add xobotyi/cc-foundry --skill statsd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xobotyi/cc-foundry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install backend, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for statsd

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/xobotyi/cc-foundry/statsd.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/xobotyi/cc-foundry/statsd)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/xobotyi/cc-foundry/statsd"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/xobotyi/cc-foundry/statsd.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,092 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00074 $0.02092
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01046
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00418
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00209

Measured 4d ago against content hash 093b99660999, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

statsd 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 4d 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.

plugins/backend/skills/statsd/SKILL.md · 215 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 215 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

StatsD

Choose the right metric type, name it with dot-delimited hierarchy, tag dimensions instead of encoding them in names. StatsD is fire-and-forget: UDP means zero latency impact, but wrong metric types or bad naming corrupt your data silently.

References

  • Metric types — [${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/metric-types.md]: Wire format details, type comparison, sampling correction
  • Naming — [${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/naming.md]: Graphite namespace mapping, character rules, naming examples
  • DogStatsD — [${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/dogstatsd.md]: Events format, service checks, protocol versions, distributions vs histograms
  • Aggregation — [${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/aggregation.md]: Flush mechanics, Graphite downsampling, DogStatsD aggregation, timestamps
  • Client patterns — [${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/client-patterns.md]: High-throughput tuning, error handling, K8s deployment, UDS configuration
  • Backends — [${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/backends.md]: statsd_exporter config, Telegraf setup, migration guides

Metric Types

Wire format: <metric_name>:<value>|<type>[|@<sample_rate>][|#<tags>]

Decision Matrix

Question Type
How many times did X happen? Counter (c)
What is X right now? Gauge (g)
How long did X take? Timer (ms)
What is the distribution of X? Histogram (h)
How many unique X occurred? Set (s)
What is the global distribution of X? Distribution (d, DogStatsD only)

Wrong metric type = wrong math at the server. A gauge used as a counter loses data between flushes; a counter used as a gauge produces meaningless rates.

Counter (|c)

Read the full file on GitHub · 215 lines

Files

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.

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. 4d ago First seen · 215 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 093b99660999

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statsd is a skill published in the GitHub repository xobotyi/cc-foundry (20 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 2,092 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 2026-08-30.

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