{"slug":"telemetry-canary","title":"telemetry-canary","summary":"Observability and structured logging canary — checks for structured logs (JSON), OpenTelemetry metrics/traces, proper error stack traces, and flags empty catches or silent log swallowing. Triggers on keywords: \"/telemetry-canary\", \"telemetry-canary\", \"observability audit\", \"struc","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-18T14:07:44.235782Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/TheColliery/CoalMine","stars":13,"forks":2,"license":"Apache-2.0","updatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:54:37Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: telemetry-canary\ndescription: &gt;-\nObservability and structured logging canary — checks for structured logs (JSON), OpenTelemetry metrics/traces, proper error stack traces, and flags empty catches or silent log swallowing. Triggers on keywords: \"/telemetry-canary\", \"telemetry-canary\", \"observability audit\", \"structured logging\". Use when adding or changing logging, metrics, tracing, or error-handling code.</h2>\n<h1>Telemetry Canary (Observability &amp; Logging Audit)</h1>\n<p><strong>Language:</strong> Generate EVERYTHING at runtime in the user's language — questions, answer options, menu labels, recommendations, report narrative. Detect from their messages; never default to English just because this file is English. English is allowed only for technical terms: commands, paths, code identifiers, severity labels (CRITICAL/HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW), and tier names (Light/Standard/Heavy).</p>\n<p><strong>Config reads — every config key, always the CASCADE, never the bare project file:</strong> <code>~/.claude/.coalmine.json</code> first, then the project config (own agent dir → other known agent dirs → legacy <code>&lt;gitroot&gt;/.coalmine.json</code>), project wins per key. A bare project read is ABSENT on a machine configured only globally, so it silently yields defaults.</p>\n<p>Audit code for proper telemetry instrumentation — ensure the app is not a black box in production.</p>\n<h2>Auditing Categories</h2>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Empty / Silent Catch</strong> — catch blocks that swallow exceptions without logging a stack trace or forwarding the error.</li>\n<li><strong>Unstructured Logs</strong> — plain-string logging in server code (prefer JSON / structured key-value for cloud queries).</li>\n<li><strong>No Correlation ID</strong> — operations crossing boundaries (HTTP/gRPC/threads) without propagating a trace/correlation ID.</li>\n<li><strong>Missing Metrics</strong> — critical transactions (checkout, auth, errors) lacking counter/histogram instrumentation.</li>\n<li><strong>No Stack Traces</strong> — errors logged without stack context (<code>logger.error(e.message)</code> instead of <code>logger.error(e)</code>).</li>\n</ol>\n<p>Per-stack grep patterns and right/wrong shapes per category: read <code>references/checks.md</code> before scanning.</p>\n<h2>Fix mode (choice-gated)</h2>\n<p>In Agent Context, after the report, present via <code>ask_question</code>:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Apply safe logs:</strong> insert error logging into empty catch blocks (standard logger template) + stack-trace mapping. Each fix: checkpoint (git stash/commit in a git repo; else copy the file aside — never assume git) → apply → build + tests → auto-revert if newly red.</li>\n<li><strong>Let me pick:</strong> user selects which telemetry gaps to resolve.</li>\n<li><strong>Report only:</strong> exit unchanged.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Grants &amp; denials (CLASSIFY-BLOCK)</h2>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>class</th>\n<th>step it powers</th>\n<th>grant</th>\n<th>on denial</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>read</td>\n<td>scan logging/metrics/error paths for the categories above</td>\n<td><code>Read</code>·<code>Grep</code>·<code>Glob</code></td>\n<td>refuse that file, name it — never a clean bill</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>write</td>\n<td>Fix mode's safe-log apply, incl. checkpoint → build+tests → auto-revert if newly red</td>\n<td><code>Edit</code>·<code>Bash</code> (checkpoint/build/revert need exec)</td>\n<td>report the fix as NOT applied AND the checkpoint/revert as NOT available, never claim done</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<p>A denial reaches the WORKER as a visible message and propagates no further — never to a\ncaller, never as a catchable condition. Every row above states a grant or an explicit death;\na step that dies says so in the output, never as a false \"done\"/\"skipped\"/\"clean\".</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>read</strong> denied → refuse before scanning; never a false clean bill.</li>\n<li><strong>write</strong> denied → report the change as NOT applied — never claim done.</li>\n<li><strong>network</strong> denied/unfetchable → <code>⚠️ unverified: check [source]</code>.</li>\n<li><strong>spawn</strong> denied → degrade per Escalation's own capability-lever fallback (never fake\nparallelism) and say the fan-out did not happen — already discharged there; a row above\nis only for a spawn this skill does OUTSIDE tier escalation.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Output</h2>\n<p><code>| file:line | category | severity | finding | recommendation |</code></p>\n<p>Severity: CRITICAL (swallowed error with state mutation) · HIGH (missing stack trace in error logs) · MEDIUM (unstructured log in API boundary) · LOW (minor trace gaps)</p>\n<p><strong>Reporting:</strong> call <code>ReportFindings</code> when callable — <code>file</code>/<code>line</code> MUST be the defect site, never the enclosing function; an unresolvable line reports your best guess, named imprecise in the wrap-up — <strong>never dropped, never faked.</strong> Severity prefixed in <code>summary</code> (e.g. <code>[HIGH] …</code>), ranked most-severe first, SUSPECTED as <code>verdict: PLAUSIBLE</code>; chat then carries only the wrap-up line (counts · coverage gaps · overflow past 32 · any imprecise-line findings) + the fix menu, never a restatement of findings. Not callable → the table above, unchanged. An Apply-fixes click = consent to the safe-fix class only — gated the same as this skill's own fix-mode (Hook Context needs an interactive session, per the Hook Context rule below) — composing with (never bypassing) the fix-mode discipline. <strong>After any fix round, re-report the same findings with <code>outcome: fixed</code>/<code>skipped</code>/<code>no_change_needed</code> — skipping this leaves the round UNFINISHED.</strong></p>\n<h2>Escalation — Scope &amp; Model Quality</h2>\n<p>Tiers are <strong>capability targets</strong>, not platform commands — resolve each to your host's nearest lever. No lever for one? <strong>Degrade gracefully — never fake parallelism you can't do</strong>; escalate via model tier + reasoning depth instead.</p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Level</th>\n<th>Intent</th>\n<th>Capability target</th>\n<th>Cost</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Light</strong></td>\n<td>Spot telemetry check, key paths only</td>\n<td>Cheapest model · single agent, no sub-agents.</td>\n<td>Low</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Standard</strong></td>\n<td>Balanced observability audit, multi-category</td>\n<td>Balanced model · raised reasoning · sub-agents per category <strong>only if your platform runs concurrent workers</strong> (else single-agent).</td>\n<td>Balanced</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Heavy</strong></td>\n<td>Full 5-category audit + adversarial verify</td>\n<td>Most capable model + largest context · deepest reasoning · max sub-agent fan-out <strong>if supported</strong> · adversarial cross-check where available.</td>\n<td>High</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<p>Per-platform Heavy levers + Heavy-run durability: read <code>references/escalation.md</code> before a Heavy run. No concurrent fan-out on your host → escalate by model + reasoning only.</p>\n<p><strong>Agent Context (interactive):</strong> score the tier rubric, then call <code>ask_question</code> once with the 3 tiers — the pick marked <code>✓</code>, score shown, labels localized — and wait for the choice before starting. <code>ask_question</code> = your platform's question tool: Claude Code <code>AskUserQuestion</code> · Cline <code>ask_question</code> · Copilot <code>askQuestions</code> · Gemini CLI <code>ask_user</code> (business-tier product; individual tiers ended 2026-06-18 → Antigravity CLI) · Codex <code>request_user_input</code> · Cursor/Devin Desktop (ex-Windsurf)/Antigravity built-in prompts; none → numbered text menu.</p>\n<p><strong>Tier rubric (deterministic):</strong> +1 each — ① &gt;20 files or whole-repo/cross-module reach ② &gt;2 of this skill's categories relevant ③ release/security/pre-ship context ④ findings will drive code changes. <strong>0–1 Light · 2–3 Standard · 4 Heavy.</strong> <strong>Freshness cap:</strong> scope already audited ≥Standard this session → cap at Light (re-auditing fresh ground wastes tokens; scope to what changed). <strong>Default tier:</strong> honor <code>.coalmine.json</code> <code>defaultTier</code> unless the user requests a tier for that run — an explicit request overrides everything.</p>\n<p><strong>Hook Context (auto-triggered):</strong> auto-Light, no tier question, no sub-agents — report first. Interactive session (a user is present) → follow this skill's own Fix mode section, if it defines one, for what to offer after the report; non-interactive → report-only. Where a Fix mode section exists, never fix without a chosen option.</p>\n<p><strong>Entanglement:</strong> after the report, if confirmed findings fall in another canary's domain, offer it once via <code>ask_question</code> (one line, max one offer): perf/N+1 → scale-canary · contract/serialization/config → drift-canary · failure-path/retry → resilience-audit · logging/metrics → telemetry-canary · coupling/DI → testability-canary · dependency/CVE → supply-chain-audit · unverified version-sensitive claim → source-grounding · missing/stale rule → gold-standard.</p>\n<p><strong>Self error-report:</strong> if this skill misbehaves (contradictory instruction, broken procedure, wrong finding class), OFFER to file it at <a href=\"https://github.com/HetCreep/CoalMine/issues/new/choose\">https://github.com/HetCreep/CoalMine/issues/new/choose</a> with a user-reviewed summary — never auto-submit, never include unapproved code or paths.</p>\n","files":[{"path":"references/checks.md","sizeBytes":2290,"isText":true},{"path":"references/escalation.md","sizeBytes":1429,"isText":true},{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":8262,"isText":true},{"path":"skill-meta.json","sizeBytes":185,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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