Agent skill

Windsurf Observability

by jeremylongshore in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace

Monitor Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) AI adoption, feature usage, and team productivity metrics.

MITAuto-check passedDevOps & Cloud

Install Windsurf Observability

skills CLI
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill windsurf-observability -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace windsurf-observability --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/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/windsurf-observability .claude/skills/windsurf-observability && 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
windsurf-observability
GitHub stars
2.8k
Token cost
~2.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
314 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
3,342
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Monitor Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) AI adoption, feature usage, and team productivity metrics.

  • Works in 5 steps: Access Admin Dashboard Analytics → Set Up Usage Alerts → Build Custom Extension for Detailed… → …
  • Tracking AI feature usage
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Prerequisites, Authentication and Tool Use, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Windsurf Observability is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Monitor Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) AI adoption, feature usage, and team productivity metrics. Use when tracking AI feature usage, measuring ROI, setting up dashboards, or analyzing Cascade effectiveness across your team. Trigger with phrases like "windsurf monitoring", "windsurf metrics", "windsurf analytics", "windsurf usage", "windsurf adoption".

Its SKILL.md is about 2.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/official-docs.md`). Compatibility notes: Designed for Claude Code

It sits in DevOps & Cloud, covering Observability. The repository describes itself as: Model-agnostic agent-skills platform with a harness-free canonical layer, verified adapters, and the ccpi package manager. Explore at tonsofskills.com. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tracking AI feature usage
  • Setting up dashboards
  • Analyzing Cascade effectiveness across your team
  • With phrases like windsurf monitoring

Example prompts

  • “windsurf monitoring”
  • “windsurf metrics”
  • “windsurf analytics”
  • “/windsurf-observability”

Requirements

  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code
  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Edit

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Access Admin Dashboard Analytics
  2. Set Up Usage Alerts
  3. Build Custom Extension for Detailed Tracking
  4. Measure Productivity Impact
  5. Dashboard Visualization

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cfae287. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Write
    • Edit

    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 yaml, typescript and markdown).

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

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • docs.devin.ai
    • windsurf.com

    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.

  • Compatibility

    Designed for Claude Code

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Windsurf Observability loads about 2.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.2k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 95 tokens; SKILL.md has 314 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~95
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.1k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~2.2k

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 jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 314 words, ~2,088 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/windsurf-observability/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
windsurf-observability
description
Monitor Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) AI adoption, feature usage, and team productivity metrics. Use when tracking AI feature usage, measuring ROI, setting up dashboards, or analyzing Cascade effectiveness across your team. Trigger with phrases like "windsurf monitoring", "windsurf metrics", "windsurf analytics", "windsurf usage", "windsurf adoption".
allowed-tools
Read, Write, Edit
compatibility
Designed for Claude Code
argument-hint
[team and reporting period]
version
1.12.0
license
MIT
author
Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>
tags
saas, windsurf, monitoring, analytics, team-management

Windsurf Observability

Overview

Monitor Windsurf AI IDE adoption, feature usage, and productivity impact across your team. Covers Admin Dashboard analytics, custom tracking via extensions, and ROI measurement.

Prerequisites

  • Windsurf Teams or Enterprise plan
  • Admin dashboard access at windsurf.com/dashboard
  • Team members actively using Windsurf

Authentication

Use an authenticated organization-admin session for dashboards. If analytics API access is enabled, use the organization-issued credential from an approved secret store, request read-only scope where available, and never include the credential or raw member data in reports.

Tool Use

  • Use Read to inspect only the repository files and configuration needed for the request.
  • Use Write only for a new artifact the user requested; never write credentials or unreviewed production configuration.
  • Use Edit for bounded, reviewable changes and preserve unrelated user work.

Instructions

Step 1: Access Admin Dashboard Analytics

Navigate to Admin Dashboard > Analytics for team-wide metrics:

yaml
# Key metrics available in Windsurf Admin Dashboard
core_metrics:
  adoption:
    active_users_daily: "Unique developers using Windsurf per day"
    seat_utilization: "Active users / total seats (target set by the organization)"
    feature_adoption: "Which AI features each user uses"

  quality:
    completion_acceptance_rate: "Supercomplete suggestions accepted vs shown"
    cascade_flow_success_rate: "Cascade tasks completed vs failed"

  consumption:
    quota_utilization: "Daily and weekly included usage, when exposed"
    on_demand_usage: "Approved variable usage beyond included quota"

  efficiency:
    tasks_per_session: "Average Cascade interactions per session"
    time_saved_estimate: "Based on task complexity and completion speed"
Step 2: Set Up Usage Alerts

Monitor for underutilization and overuse:

yaml
# Alert thresholds for team management
alerts:
  low_adoption:
    condition: "seat_utilization < 50% for 7 days"
    action: "Schedule team training session"

  low_acceptance_rate:
    condition: "completion_acceptance_rate < 20% for 7 days"
    action: "Review .devin/rules/project.md — AI suggestions not matching project patterns"

  high_cascade_failures:
    condition: "cascade_success_rate < 50% for 3 days"
    action: "Check workspace config — .codeiumignore may be too aggressive"

  variable_usage_risk:
    condition: "on-demand usage approaches the approved spending limit"
    action: "Notify the billing owner and review model/context choices"

  inactive_seats:
    condition: "user has <10 interactions in 30 days"
    action: "Offer training or downgrade to Free tier"
Step 3: Build Custom Extension for Detailed Tracking
typescript
// windsurf-analytics-extension/src/extension.ts
import * as vscode from "vscode";

interface UsageEvent {
  event: string;
  timestamp: string;
  userId: string;
  file?: string;
  metadata?: Record<string, unknown>;
}

const events: UsageEvent[] = [];

export function activate(context: vscode.ExtensionContext) {
  // Track Cascade usage patterns
  const cascadeListener = vscode.workspace.onDidSaveTextDocument((doc) => {
    events.push({
      event: "file_save_after_cascade",
      timestamp: new Date().toISOString(),
      userId: vscode.env.machineId,
      file: doc.fileName,
      metadata: { languageId: doc.languageId, lineCount: doc.lineCount },
    });
  });

  // Flush events periodically
  setInterval(() => {
    if (events.length > 0) {
      const batch = events.splice(0);
      sendToAnalytics(batch);
    }
  }, 60000); // Flush every minute

  context.subscriptions.push(cascadeListener);
}

async function sendToAnalytics(batch: UsageEvent[]) {
  const endpoint = vscode.workspace
    .getConfiguration("windsurf-analytics")
    .get<string>("endpoint");
  if (!endpoint) return;

  await fetch(endpoint, {
    method: "POST",
    headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
    body: JSON.stringify({ events: batch }),
  }).catch(() => {}); // Silently fail — analytics should never block work
}
Step 4: Measure Productivity Impact
yaml
# Weekly team productivity report template
productivity_report:
  period: "Week of YYYY-MM-DD"
  team_size: 10
  active_windsurf_users: 8

  ai_metrics:
    total_cascade_tasks: 150
    cascade_success_rate: "78%"
    completion_acceptance_rate: "32%"
    quota_utilization: "source-defined value"

  productivity_proxies:
    commits_per_developer: 12       # vs baseline 8 pre-Windsurf
    pr_turnaround_hours: 6          # vs baseline 12 pre-Windsurf
    code_review_comments: 45        # quality indicator

  estimated_time_saved:
    per_developer_per_week: "3 hours"
    total_team_per_week: "24 hours"
    monthly_value: "$7,200"         # 24hrs * 4wks * $75/hr

  roi_calculation:
    monthly_subscription_cost: "from invoice"
    estimated_value_generated: "calculation with stated assumptions"
    roi: "derived only after finance approves the model"
Step 5: Dashboard Visualization

Track these metrics over time in your preferred dashboard tool:

markdown
## Recommended Dashboard Panels

1. Daily Active Users vs Total Seats (line chart)
   - Shows adoption trend
   - Alert when utilization drops below 70%

2. Completion Acceptance Rate (line chart, 7-day rolling avg)
   - Higher = better .devin/rules/project.md quality
   - Drop = rules need updating or team needs training

3. Cascade Success Rate (bar chart, weekly)
   - Tracks agentic task effectiveness
   - Low rate = prompts too vague or workspace too large

4. Included vs On-Demand Usage (bar chart, billing period)
   - Shows where variable spend occurs
   - Guides seat and spending-limit decisions

5. Top Workflows Used (table)
   - Shows which automated workflows team uses most
   - Identifies candidates for new workflows

Output

Produce a dated adoption and reliability report with source definitions, cohort size, active usage, quota or on-demand exposure, acceptance and rework signals, incidents, limitations, and recommended experiments. Avoid claiming causation from editor telemetry alone.

Error Handling

IssueCauseSolution
Low acceptance rateAI suggestions don't match project styleUpdate .devin/rules/project.md with project conventions
Cascade flow failuresInsufficient tool permissions or contextCheck workspace config, .codeiumignore
Seat utilization lowTeam not adoptedTraining session, share productivity data
Analytics data missingNot on Teams/Enterprise planUpgrade for admin analytics
Custom extension conflictsExtension interferes with CascadeEnsure extension doesn't register completions

Examples

Quick Adoption Check
Admin Dashboard > Analytics > Overview
Look for: active users, acceptance rate, quota utilization, and on-demand usage
Monthly Seat Optimization
yaml
steps:
  1. Export member usage from Admin Dashboard
  2. Sort by authorized usage for the review period (ascending)
  3. Bottom 20%: offer training or downgrade to Free
  4. Top 10%: interview for best practices to share
  5. Reallocate freed seats to new team members

Resources

Continue with windsurf-incident-runbook to turn monitoring thresholds into owned response actions, rollback criteria, and durable incident evidence.

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in skills/.curated/windsurf-observability of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/official-docs.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287

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Questions about Windsurf Observability

What does Windsurf Observability do?

Monitor Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) AI adoption, feature usage, and team productivity metrics. Windsurf Observability is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Monitor Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) AI adoption, feature usage, and team productivity metrics.

When should I use Windsurf Observability?

Windsurf Observability fits situations like: tracking AI feature usage; setting up dashboards; analyzing Cascade effectiveness across your team; with phrases like windsurf monitoring.

How do I install Windsurf Observability in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill windsurf-observability -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/windsurf-observability in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .claude/skills/windsurf-observability in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Windsurf Observability in Codex?

Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill windsurf-observability -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/windsurf-observability in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .agents/skills/windsurf-observability in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Windsurf Observability 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 jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill windsurf-observability -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/windsurf-observability, .gemini/skills/windsurf-observability, .github/skills/windsurf-observability and .opencode/skills/windsurf-observability in your project.

What does Windsurf Observability need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Windsurf Observability is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Write, Edit. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code.

Does Windsurf Observability access the network?

SKILL.md names 2 domains. As links in the text: docs.devin.ai and windsurf.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Windsurf Observability 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 Windsurf Observability use?

Windsurf Observability is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Windsurf Observability use?

About 2.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 104 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Windsurf Observability?

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Who maintains Windsurf Observability?

jeremylongshore (a GitHub user) maintains it in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, which has 2,827 GitHub stars. The repository holds 3,342 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.