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name: \"agent-observability\"\ndescription: >-\nUse when monitoring, tracing, or debugging agentic workflows in production. Keywords: observability, tracing, OpenTelemetry, Langfuse, latency, token cost, loop detection, telemetry.

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Agent Observability & Telemetry

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Overview

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This skill defines the operational standards and instrumentation requirements for monitoring agentic workflows. It ensures that complex, multi-agent systems built within KILO-KIT remain transparent, debuggable, and cost-effective. Observability in this context spans from real-time tracing of individual subagent reasoning to macro-level analysis of cost-per-task and loop-detection across distributed systems.

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When To Use

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Activate this skill when:

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Core Pillars

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  1. Traceability: Capturing parent-child relationships across subagent calls and tool invocations.
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  2. Quantification: Measuring latency, token consumption, and cache effectiveness.
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  3. Detection: Identifying anomalies in agent behavior (e.g., infinite recursion, repetitive tool errors).
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  4. Learning: Converting trace data into gold-standard datasets for future regression testing.
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Instrumentation Workflow

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To maintain high observability, follow this workflow:

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  1. Context Propagation: Always pass trace_id and span_id headers through all agent boundaries.
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  2. Structured Logging: Log all input/output payloads at the start and end of every tool call or reasoning step.
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  3. Telemetry Standards: Use OpenTelemetry semantic conventions for LLM operations (e.g., llm.request.model, llm.usage.completion_tokens).
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  4. Platform Integration: Configure the agent SDKs to push spans directly to backend exporters (Langfuse/Helicone/Jaeger).
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  5. Session Aggregation: Group all traces belonging to a single user task under a persistent session_id.
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Key Metrics

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Loop Detection & Anomaly Alerts

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To prevent runaway costs and infinite loops:

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Quality Gates

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Instrumentation Best Practices

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Golden Dataset Extraction

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The system should implement a mechanism to:

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  1. Export flagged traces (user corrections).
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  2. Clean and format the input context and reasoning path.
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  3. Store as a YAML-based test case in tests/regression/.
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  4. Automatically run against the agent whenever the system prompt is updated.
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Integration Patterns

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KPI Definition

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References

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