Repository
ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills agent skills
- skills
- 20
- GitHub stars
- 106
GitHub description: “Vendor-neutral OpenTelemetry skills for AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex, grounded in upstream sources”
- Stars
- 106 (13 forks)
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Last push
- Oct 2026
- Created
- Mar 2026
- ai
- opentelemetry
- agent-skills
- observability
- claude-code
- codex
- cursor
- github-copilot
- instrumentation
- opentelemetry-collector
- otel
- skills
Install all skills
npx skills add ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skillsAdd --skill <name> for a single skill and -a <agent> to choose the agent (see the agent guides).
Skills in ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills, ranked
Ranked by score. Sort bymost stars,trending,newest,recently updated
| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Build custom OpenTelemetry Collector distributions with OCB (OpenTelemetry Collector Builder). | ollygarden/ | 106 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 2 | 2.Otel Go OpenTelemetry in Go — SDK setup, API surface, breaking changes, contrib instrumentation libraries (otelhttp, otelgrpc, otelmongo), compile-time zero-code instrumentation (otelc), and performance… | ollygarden/ | 106 | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 3 | OpenTelemetry Transformation Language (OTTL) expert for writing and debugging telemetry transformations in the OpenTelemetry Collector. | ollygarden/ | 106 | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 4 | OpenTelemetry profiles signal and the eBPF profiler (otelcol-ebpf-profiler, profiling receiver). | ollygarden/ | 106 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 5 | Migrate OpenTelemetry Span Events (AddEvent, RecordException, and language equivalents) to the Logs API following the accepted OTEP 4430 migration plan. | ollygarden/ | 106 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 6 | Build safe, version-pinned telemetrygen commands for synthetic OTLP traces, metrics, and logs. | ollygarden/ | 106 | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 7 | Assess OpenTelemetry package and Collector upgrades across ecosystems. | ollygarden/ | 106 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 8 | OpenTelemetry Weaver registry authoring, codegen, and CI enforcement. | ollygarden/ | 106 | — | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 9 | OpenTelemetry Collector component configuration. An agent skill from ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills. | ollygarden/ | 106 | — | ~4.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 10 | Scan one OpenTelemetry component at pinned upstream versions and record the telemetry it emits (spans, metrics, logs) as change-point files under skills/otel-telemetry-emissions/. | ollygarden/ | 106 | — | ~782 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 11 | OpenTelemetry declarative YAML configuration for SDK setup. An agent skill from ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills. | ollygarden/ | 106 | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 12 | OpenTelemetry semantic convention lookup and naming guidance. | ollygarden/ | 106 | — | ~644 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 13 | Version-pinned inventory of the telemetry (spans, metrics, logs, attributes) emitted by OpenTelemetry collector components and SDK instrumentation packages. | ollygarden/ | 106 | — | ~521 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 14 | 14.Otel Browser OpenTelemetry browser/RUM mechanics for SPAs and MPAs. An agent skill from ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills. | ollygarden/ | 106 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 15 | 15.Otel Python OpenTelemetry in Python — SDK setup, declarative config, zero-code instrumentation (opentelemetry-instrument, opentelemetry-distro), contrib auto-instrumentation, manual API, performance tuning… | ollygarden/ | 106 | — | ~911 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 16 | 16.Otel Dotnet OpenTelemetry in .NET — DI/builder SDK setup (OpenTelemetry.Extensions.Hosting, AddOpenTelemetry, UseOtlpExporter, OpenTelemetrySdk.Create), native .NET instrumentation APIs (ActivitySource… | ollygarden/ | 106 | — | ~988 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 17 | 17.Otel Java OpenTelemetry in Java — Javaagent zero-code instrumentation, Spring Boot Starter, manual autoconfigure SDK, declarative YAML configuration, BOM dependency management, sensitive-data capture and… | ollygarden/ | 106 | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 18 | 18.Otel JS OpenTelemetry in Node.js / JavaScript / TypeScript — NodeSDK, declarative YAML configuration, auto-instrumentations, ESM vs CJS import patterns. | ollygarden/ | 106 | — | ~655 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 19 | 19.Otel Ruby OpenTelemetry in Ruby — SDK setup, manual tracing, experimental metrics and logs, Bundler integration, contrib instrumentation for Rails/Rack/Sinatra/Sidekiq and other gems, propagation… | ollygarden/ | 106 | — | ~924 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 20 | OpenTelemetry SDK and package version lookup across languages. | ollygarden/ | 106 | — | ~487 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best skill in ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills?
Otel Collector Builder from ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills ranks first of the 20 skills in ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 106 GitHub stars, its SKILL.md loads about 2k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Otel Go and Otel Ottl.
Are the skills in ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills official?
None yet. All 20 skills in ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills listed here come from community repositories; a skill counts as official when the product's own GitHub organization publishes it.
How do I install all skills from ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills?
Run npx skills add ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills in your project: the open-source skills CLI installs the repository's skills into your coding agent's skills folder. To install a single skill, open its page here for the exact command.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.