Agent skill

Overmind Observability

by overmind-core in overmind-core/overmind

Investigate Overmind traces, sessions, task executions, quality regressions, errors, latency and instrumentation gaps.

AGPL-3.0Auto-check passedDevOps & Cloud

Install Overmind Observability

skills CLI
$ npx skills add overmind-core/overmind --skill overmind-observability -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install overmind-core/overmind overmind-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/overmind-core/overmind.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/overmind/skills/overmind-observability .claude/skills/overmind-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
overmind-observability
GitHub stars
597
Token cost
~757 tokens
SKILL.md length
359 words
Files
3 (incl. assets)
Skills in repo
20
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
AGPL-3.0

At a glance

Investigate Overmind traces, sessions, task executions, quality regressions, errors, latency and instrumentation gaps.

  • Diagnosing observed agent behaviour rather than creating training
  • SKILL.md covers Investigate and Instrumentation gaps
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Evaluation runs

What it does

Overmind Observability is an agent skill from overmind-core/overmind. Investigate Overmind traces, sessions, task executions, quality regressions, errors, latency and instrumentation gaps. Use for diagnosing observed agent behaviour rather than creating training or evaluation runs.

Its SKILL.md is about 760 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including assets (for example `agents/openai.yaml`).

It sits in DevOps & Cloud, covering Observability. The repository describes itself as: The platform for continuously improving AI agents. The licence is AGPL-3.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Diagnosing observed agent behaviour rather than creating training
  • Evaluation runs

Example prompts

  • “/overmind-observability”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 3dec73c. 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.

    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

Overmind Observability loads about 757 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 59 tokens; SKILL.md has 359 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~59
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~757

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 overmind-core/overmind at commit 3dec73c, republished under its AGPL-3.0 licence (© overmind-core). 359 words, ~757 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/overmind-observability/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 2 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
overmind-observability
description
Investigate Overmind traces, sessions, task executions, quality regressions, errors, latency and instrumentation gaps. Use for diagnosing observed agent behaviour rather than creating training or evaluation runs.

Overmind Observability

Start with list_projects and choose the intended accessible project. For an account connection, pass its project_id on every project tool and resource URI query; follow returned links. Project API keys retain their narrower access.

Explain a measured problem using the smallest relevant set of traces and scored executions. Use the configured MCP connection and identify the chosen project through overmind://project/current?project_id=ID before combining evidence from the Console.

Investigate

For a named capability, prefer the native investigate-capability prompt when available. For a trace, session or time-window question, start directly with the matching resource or query_traces; a capability is not required for every query.

Resolve the affected period, deployment/model and capability from the request and available evidence. Use inspect_capability_health for aggregates, query_failures for scored failures and query_task_executions for behaviour bindings. Follow returned trace or session links to inspect the failing step, input, output, tool calls and parent-child relationships.

Keep comparisons on equivalent windows and cohorts. Report sample counts and pagination or truncation limits. An empty result, an unscored execution, an evaluator failure and a passing score are different observations. Separate technical errors from quality failures and correlation from a demonstrated cause.

When the evidence supports a regression, identify the affected behaviour and representative trace IDs, compare the relevant baseline, and explain the likely cause with its uncertainty. A diagnostic request does not itself authorize creating datasets, changing evaluators or starting provider runs.

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Instrumentation gaps

For a requested instrumentation change, prefer instrument-repository and the server's get_instrumentation_plan. Preserve returned ticket identities, placement modes and required spans. If the plan returns human_action or no placements, follow that handoff; do not invent anchors or behaviour keys.

Apply authorized edits locally. Before a verification run, present its exact command/input, environment, model/provider, side effects, correlation and attempt limit for approval. Use that correlation as conversation.id, query its trace, require exactly one complete, untruncated trace, and pass the returned spans unchanged to verify_instrumentation. The verifier does not ingest traces. Report the application's outcome separately from instrumentation coverage.

Finish with the finding, supporting trace/execution links and the remaining uncertainty. Open observability under the returned Console base with the same projectId when the user wants the visual trace view.

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Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (assets) in overmind/skills/overmind-observability of overmind-core/overmind.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • assets/icon.png

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 3dec73c

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Categories

Questions about Overmind Observability

What does Overmind Observability do?

Investigate Overmind traces, sessions, task executions, quality regressions, errors, latency and instrumentation gaps. Overmind Observability is an agent skill from overmind-core/overmind. Investigate Overmind traces, sessions, task executions, quality regressions, errors, latency and instrumentation gaps.

When should I use Overmind Observability?

Overmind Observability fits situations like: diagnosing observed agent behaviour rather than creating training; evaluation runs.

How do I install Overmind Observability in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Overmind Observability in Codex?

Run `npx skills add overmind-core/overmind --skill overmind-observability -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (overmind/skills/overmind-observability in overmind-core/overmind) into .agents/skills/overmind-observability in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Overmind 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 overmind-core/overmind --skill overmind-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/overmind-observability, .gemini/skills/overmind-observability, .github/skills/overmind-observability and .opencode/skills/overmind-observability in your project.

What does Overmind Observability need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Overmind Observability is instructions for the agent only.

Does Overmind Observability 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 Overmind 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 Overmind Observability use?

Overmind Observability is published under the AGPL-3.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Overmind Observability use?

About 757 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3k 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 Overmind Observability?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Overmind Observability: Vercel Optimize Audit (vercel-labs/agent-skills, 32k stars), Kubeshark Installer (kubeshark/kubeshark, 12k stars), Kubeshark KFL2 Filter Reference (kubeshark/kubeshark, 12k stars) and KubeSphere ServiceMesh Manager (kubesphere/kubesphere, 17k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Overmind Observability?

overmind-core (a GitHub organization) maintains it in overmind-core/overmind, which has 597 GitHub stars. The repository holds 20 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

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