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Observability Designer · borghei | DecimalAI

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Observability Designer

borghei/observability-designer

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Design observability strategies: SLI/SLO frameworks, alerting, and dashboards.

SkillScore82Maintained

Automatic

DevOps & SRE pack

Last verified 8/20/2026

What it changes

Passed 17 of 21 test cases with the skill, and 9 of 21 without it.

Without skill41%

With skill82%

Checks it passed that the model alone missed

Specifies the --criticality flag set to high in the invocation.
Includes the parameter --service-type pipeline in the script invocation.
Restricts the maximum number of panels per dashboard screen to at most 7.

and 7 more in the full report

9 fixed9 passed either way4 still failing0 broke

Pass-rate lift: +41 pp
Tokens: +40%
Agent turns: 0%
Response time: -13%

Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/20/2026v118 of 22 cases passed with skill · 21 comparable

Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.

Use this skill

Save it into your project's skills folder. Claude Code picks it up in its next session.

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/borghei-observability-designer/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/borghei-observability-designer/SKILL.md

Want it pinned and updatable? pip install "decimalai>=0.15", then decimalai skills add borghei-observability-designer, and start Claude Code with claude --plugin-dir "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.agents"

1 · One-time — install the CLI (docs ↗)

pip install "decimalai>=0.15"

2 · Get the skill — writes .agents/skills/borghei-observability-designer/ and pins it in .decimal/skills.lock

decimalai skills add borghei-observability-designer

No CLI? Get the same file — curl · raw file

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/borghei-observability-designer/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/borghei-observability-designer/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/borghei-observability-designer/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/borghei-observability-designer.json ↗

Safety checks: 3 of 3 passed

Code scan CleanIntent PassedContent Clean

See it in action

One of 8 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.

1 of 8

Prompt

We have an existing alerts.json file containing dozens of legacy Alertmanager definitions. What exact CLI command analyzes this file for duplicates and noise without making modifications?

What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked	Without skill	With skill
Executes `python scripts/alert_optimizer.py --input alerts.json --analyze-only`.	Missed	Passed

case-16 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/20/2026 · answers are capped and redacted

What's inside

The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.

SKILL.md75 lines13 filesincludes scripts

Observability Designer

Design production-ready observability strategies that combine the three pillars (metrics, logs, traces) with SLI/SLO frameworks, golden-signals monitoring, multi-window burn-rate alerting, and alert-noise optimization.

Core Capabilities

SLI/SLO frameworks — select SLIs from the golden signals, map them to Prometheus expressions, set SLO targets by criticality tier, and compute error budgets.
Burn-rate alerting — multi-window burn-rate rules with severity routing, hysteresis, suppression, and grouping to keep alert noise below 10%.
Dashboard design — Grafana specs following the Overview > Service > Component > Instance hierarchy, ≤7 panels per screen, role-based views (SRE/Dev/Exec/Ops).
Structured logging & tracing — JSON log format with correlation IDs, log-level discipline, and head/tail/adaptive trace sampling strategies.
Runbooks & validation — runbook template per critical alert; coverage validation that every T1 service has metrics, logs, traces, and a runbook.
Cost optimization — metric/log/trace retention tiers and cardinality management.

When to Use

Instrumenting a new or existing production service.
Defining SLOs and error budgets for a service tier.
Tuning alert rules or reducing alert fatigue / alert storms.
Designing Grafana dashboards or role-based views.
Choosing a trace sampling strategy or structured log schema.

Clarify First

Before designing the observability strategy, confirm these inputs. If any is unknown or vague, ASK — do not assume:

Service type & criticality tier — api / pipeline / storage / ML and T1–T3 (sets SLO targets, error-budget math, and slo_designer flags)
User-facing vs internal — determines which golden signals become SLIs and how alert severity is routed
Primary pain: alert noise vs coverage gaps — decides whether to optimize existing alerts or design new burn-rate rules
Dashboard audience — SRE / Dev / Exec / Ops sets the role-based panel layout and hierarchy

Stop rule: ask only the 2-3 that most change the output. If the user says "just draft it," proceed and list your assumptions at the top of the artifact.

Tools

Tool	Purpose	Command
`slo_designer.py`	Generate SLI/SLO framework, error budgets, and burn-rate alerts from a service definition	`python scripts/slo_designer.py --service-type api --criticality high --user-facing true`
`alert_optimizer.py`	Analyze alert configs for noise, coverage gaps, and duplicates; emit an optimization report	`python scripts/alert_optimizer.py --input alerts.json --analyze-only`
`dashboard_generator.py`	Produce Grafana-compatible dashboard JSON with golden signals and role-based views	`python scripts/dashboard_generator.py --service-type api --name "Payment Service"`

Track record

Benchmark

17 / 21

test cases passed, vs 9 / 21 without

Adoption

Users: 0
Times used: 0

Safety and source details

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 8/3/2026

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IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review

Source

Imported

borghei / claude-skills

engineering/observability-designer/SKILL.md

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License MIT + Commons ClauseImported 8/3/2026Version v1Bundled 12 files · scripts

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Observability Designer

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Clarify First

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