Agent skill

Zabbix Problem Review

by automateyournetwork in automateyournetwork/netclaw

Review current and historical problems from Zabbix — severity, which host, when it started, how long it has been active, and whether anyone has acknowledged it.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passed

Install Zabbix Problem Review

skills CLI
$ npx skills add automateyournetwork/netclaw --skill zabbix-problem-review -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install automateyournetwork/netclaw zabbix-problem-review --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/automateyournetwork/netclaw.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/workspace/skills/zabbix-problem-review .claude/skills/zabbix-problem-review && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
zabbix-problem-review
GitHub stars
676
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
494 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
120
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Review current and historical problems from Zabbix — severity, which host, when it started, how long it has been active, and whether anyone has acknowledged it.

  • Works in 5 steps: Never report an unreachable NMS as "no… → Always give duration, not just onset. → Acknowledged ≠ resolved. Say… → …
  • Someone asks what is broken right now
  • SKILL.md covers Server, Current problems vs history —…, The distinction that matters… and Acknowledgement is a workflow…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Zabbix Problem Review is an agent skill from automateyournetwork/netclaw. Review current and historical problems from Zabbix — severity, which host, when it started, how long it has been active, and whether anyone has acknowledged it. Use when someone asks what is broken right now, how long something has been broken, or what happened during a window that has already passed.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: An AI agent that claws through your network. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Someone asks what is broken right now
  • How long something has been broken
  • What happened during a window that has already passed

Example prompts

  • “/zabbix-problem-review”

Requirements

  • A credential in ZABBIX_TOKEN

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Never report an unreachable NMS as "no problems".
  2. Always give duration, not just onset.
  3. Acknowledged ≠ resolved. Say "acknowledged", never imply "handled".
  4. Say what you filtered out.
  5. Read-only. Acknowledging an alert is a real action a human owns; there is no write path here.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit aa90e7d. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are jsonc).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Zabbix Problem Review loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 81 tokens; SKILL.md has 494 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~81
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from automateyournetwork/netclaw at commit aa90e7d, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© automateyournetwork). 494 words, ~1,099 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/zabbix-problem-review/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
zabbix-problem-review
description
Review current and historical problems from Zabbix — severity, which host, when it started, how long it has been active, and whether anyone has acknowledged it. Use when someone asks what is broken right now, how long something has been broken, or what happened during a window that has already passed.
version
1.0.0
license
Apache-2.0
tags
zabbix, nms, monitoring, alerts, problems, incidents, triage, observability
user-invocable
true

Zabbix Problem Review

Server

zabbix-mcp — vendored third-party, read-only, three tools. See zabbix-metrics-history for the shared cautions.

Current problems vs history — use the right one

QuestionMethodNote
What is wrong now?problem.getReads a dedicated problem table. This is the right one
What happened then?event.getHistorical, heavier, needs a time window
What rule fired it?trigger.getThe definition behind a problem
jsonc
zabbix_api("problem.get", {
  "output": "extend", "selectAcknowledges": "extend", "selectTags": "extend",
  "recent": false, "sortfield": ["eventid"], "sortorder": "DESC"
})

Every problem you report carries: severity · host · when it started · how long it has been active · acknowledgement state. "How long" is the question NetClaw could not answer at all before this integration existed — do not drop it.

The distinction that matters most here

"No active problems" and "the NMS could not be reached" are not the same answer.

An empty problem list is a legitimate, positive finding — the monitoring system looked and found nothing wrong. An unreachable NMS is a failure to look.

They are both an empty result over the wire, and reporting the second as the first is the most misleading thing this skill can do: it tells an engineer everything is fine at exactly the moment monitoring is blind.

Three outcomes, three different sentences:

Say
NMS reachable, nothing wrong"Zabbix reports no active problems as of <time>."
NMS unreachable"Zabbix could not be reached — this is not a statement about the network."
Credentials rejected"Zabbix rejected the credentials — the monitoring state is unknown."

Acknowledgement is a workflow fact, never a resolution

An acknowledged problem is still happening. Someone has said "I've seen this", which is a fact about the team, not about the network.

Report it as "active, acknowledged by <who> at <when>". Never let acknowledgement soften the description of the underlying condition, and never let a filtered-out acknowledged problem disappear from a count.

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Filtering

Filter before you answer — by severity, host or group — rather than returning everything and asking the reader to ignore rows. Use severities, hostids or groupids on the call.

Severities: 0 not classified · 1 information · 2 warning · 3 average · 4 high · 5 disaster.

When you filter, say what you filtered out, so "two problems" is never mistaken for "two problems exist".

Resolved problems

event.get with value: 0 gives resolutions. Report both onset and resolution times — a problem that lasted four minutes and one that lasted four hours are different incidents, and the duration is usually the point of the question.

Boundaries

Want to…Use
Metric values over timezabbix-metrics-history
Availability and inventoryzabbix-availability
Unsolicited trapssnmptrap-mcp — push, not poll
Flowsipfix-mcp
Instrumented metrics / dashboardsprometheus, grafana
SaaS monitoringauvik, thousandeyes, datadog
Current device statepyats, multivendor-cli, fortinet — this is the poller's view over time
Acknowledge, close or suppress anythingnothing here. This integration is strictly read-only

Rules

  1. Never report an unreachable NMS as "no problems".
  2. Always give duration, not just onset.
  3. Acknowledged ≠ resolved. Say "acknowledged", never imply "handled".
  4. Say what you filtered out.
  5. Read-only. Acknowledging an alert is a real action a human owns; there is no write path here.

© automateyournetwork, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in workspace/skills/zabbix-problem-review of automateyournetwork/netclaw.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit aa90e7d

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Questions about Zabbix Problem Review

What does Zabbix Problem Review do?

Review current and historical problems from Zabbix — severity, which host, when it started, how long it has been active, and whether anyone has acknowledged it. Zabbix Problem Review is an agent skill from automateyournetwork/netclaw. Review current and historical problems from Zabbix — severity, which host, when it started, how long it has been active, and whether anyone has acknowledged it.

When should I use Zabbix Problem Review?

Zabbix Problem Review fits situations like: someone asks what is broken right now; how long something has been broken; what happened during a window that has already passed.

How do I install Zabbix Problem Review in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add automateyournetwork/netclaw --skill zabbix-problem-review -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (workspace/skills/zabbix-problem-review in automateyournetwork/netclaw) into .claude/skills/zabbix-problem-review in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Zabbix Problem Review in Codex?

Run `npx skills add automateyournetwork/netclaw --skill zabbix-problem-review -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (workspace/skills/zabbix-problem-review in automateyournetwork/netclaw) into .agents/skills/zabbix-problem-review in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Zabbix Problem Review in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add automateyournetwork/netclaw --skill zabbix-problem-review -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/zabbix-problem-review, .gemini/skills/zabbix-problem-review, .github/skills/zabbix-problem-review and .opencode/skills/zabbix-problem-review in your project.

What does Zabbix Problem Review need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Zabbix Problem Review is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: A credential in ZABBIX_TOKEN.

Does Zabbix Problem Review access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Zabbix Problem Review safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Zabbix Problem Review use?

Zabbix Problem Review is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Zabbix Problem Review use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Zabbix Problem Review?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Zabbix Problem Review: Is This A Problem (anthropics/claude-for-legal, 9.6k stars), Relsa Severity Assessment (K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills, 48k stars), Reconciling Problem Lists (maziyarpanahi/openmed, 5.5k stars) and Statistical Problem Formulation (aiming-lab/AutoResearchClaw, 15k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Zabbix Problem Review?

automateyournetwork (a GitHub user) maintains it in automateyournetwork/netclaw, which has 676 GitHub stars. The repository holds 120 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: automateyournetwork/netclaw on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.