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discover-observability

A gateway skill that auto-activates for observability tasks and provides access to 8 specialized monitoring skills. It uses progressive loading: first the gateway, then category index, then specific skills. Works by triggering on keywords like monitoring, logging, tracing, and metrics.

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This page reorganizes the original catalog entry around fit, installability, and workflow context first. The original raw source lives below.

Stars
81
Hot score
93
Updated
March 20, 2026
Overall rating
A7.5
Composite score
5.9
Best-practice grade
N/A

Install command

npx @skill-hub/cli install rand-cc-polymath-discover-observability
observabilityskill-discoverymonitoringdevops-tools

Repository

rand/cc-polymath

Skill path: skills/discover-observability

A gateway skill that auto-activates for observability tasks and provides access to 8 specialized monitoring skills. It uses progressive loading: first the gateway, then category index, then specific skills. Works by triggering on keywords like monitoring, logging, tracing, and metrics.

Open repository

Best for

Primary workflow: Research & Ops.

Technical facets: DevOps.

Target audience: DevOps engineers and developers working with monitoring systems who want organized access to observability skills without manual searching.

License: Unknown.

Original source

Catalog source: SkillHub Club.

Repository owner: rand.

This is still a mirrored public skill entry. Review the repository before installing into production workflows.

What it helps with

  • Install discover-observability into Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, or OpenCode workflows
  • Review https://github.com/rand/cc-polymath before adding discover-observability to shared team environments
  • Use discover-observability for devops workflows

Works across

Claude CodeCodex CLIGemini CLIOpenCode

Favorites: 0.

Sub-skills: 0.

Aggregator: No.

Original source / Raw SKILL.md

---
name: discover-observability
description: Automatically discover observability and monitoring skills when working with monitoring. Activates for observability development tasks.
---

# Observability Skills Discovery

Provides automatic access to comprehensive observability skills.

## When This Skill Activates

This skill auto-activates when you're working with:
- monitoring
- logging
- tracing
- metrics
- distributed tracing
- alerts
- dashboards
- observability

## Available Skills

### Quick Reference

The Observability category contains 8 skills:

1. **alerting-strategy**
2. **dashboard-design**
3. **distributed-tracing**
4. **metrics-instrumentation**
5. **observability-cost-optimization**
6. **opentelemetry-integration**
7. **production-incident-debugging**
8. **structured-logging**

### Load Full Category Details

For complete descriptions and workflows:

```bash
cat ~/.claude/skills/observability/INDEX.md
```

This loads the full Observability category index with:
- Detailed skill descriptions
- Usage triggers for each skill
- Common workflow combinations
- Cross-references to related skills

### Load Specific Skills

Load individual skills as needed:

```bash
cat ~/.claude/skills/observability/alerting-strategy.md
cat ~/.claude/skills/observability/dashboard-design.md
cat ~/.claude/skills/observability/distributed-tracing.md
cat ~/.claude/skills/observability/metrics-instrumentation.md
cat ~/.claude/skills/observability/observability-cost-optimization.md
```

## Progressive Loading

This gateway skill enables progressive loading:
- **Level 1**: Gateway loads automatically (you're here now)
- **Level 2**: Load category INDEX.md for full overview
- **Level 3**: Load specific skills as needed

## Usage Instructions

1. **Auto-activation**: This skill loads automatically when Claude Code detects observability work
2. **Browse skills**: Run `cat ~/.claude/skills/observability/INDEX.md` for full category overview
3. **Load specific skills**: Use bash commands above to load individual skills

---

**Next Steps**: Run `cat ~/.claude/skills/observability/INDEX.md` to see full category details.
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