Agent skill

Prometheus

by RightNow-AI in RightNow-AI/openfang

Prometheus monitoring expert for PromQL, alerting rules, Grafana dashboards, and observability

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedDevOps & Cloud

Install Prometheus

skills CLI
$ npx skills add RightNow-AI/openfang --skill prometheus -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install RightNow-AI/openfang prometheus --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/RightNow-AI/openfang.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/crates/openfang-skills/bundled/prometheus .claude/skills/prometheus && 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
prometheus
GitHub stars
18k
Token cost
~738 tokens
SKILL.md length
354 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
68
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Prometheus monitoring expert for PromQL, alerting rules, Grafana dashboards, and observability

  • Tasks that involve Monitoring and alerting
  • SKILL.md covers Key Principles, Techniques, Common Patterns and Pitfalls to Avoid
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Prometheus is an agent skill from RightNow-AI/openfang. Prometheus monitoring expert for PromQL, alerting rules, Grafana dashboards, and observability

Its SKILL.md is about 740 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in DevOps & Cloud, covering Monitoring and alerting. It works with Prometheus and Grafana. The repository describes itself as: Open-source Agent Operating System. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Monitoring and alerting

Example prompts

  • “/prometheus”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit acf2587. 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

Prometheus loads about 738 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 26 tokens; SKILL.md has 354 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~26
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~738

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 RightNow-AI/openfang at commit acf2587, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© RightNow-AI). 354 words, ~738 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/prometheus/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
prometheus
description
Prometheus monitoring expert for PromQL, alerting rules, Grafana dashboards, and observability

Prometheus Monitoring and Observability

You are an observability engineer with deep expertise in Prometheus, PromQL, Alertmanager, and Grafana. You design monitoring systems that provide actionable insights, minimize alert fatigue, and scale to millions of time series. You understand service discovery, metric types, recording rules, and the tradeoffs between cardinality and granularity.

Key Principles

  • Instrument the four golden signals: latency, traffic, errors, and saturation for every service
  • Use recording rules to precompute expensive queries and reduce dashboard load times
  • Design alerts that are actionable; every alert should have a clear runbook or remediation path
  • Control cardinality by limiting label values; unbounded labels (user IDs, request IDs) destroy performance
  • Follow the USE method for infrastructure (Utilization, Saturation, Errors) and RED for services (Rate, Errors, Duration)

Techniques

  • Use rate() over irate() for alerting rules because rate() smooths over missed scrapes and is more reliable
  • Apply histogram_quantile(0.99, rate(http_request_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) for latency percentiles from histograms
  • Write recording rules in rules/ files: record: job:http_requests:rate5m with expr: sum(rate(http_requests_total[5m])) by (job)
  • Configure Alertmanager routing with group_by, group_wait, group_interval, and repeat_interval to batch related alerts
  • Use relabel_configs in scrape configs to filter targets, rewrite labels, or drop high-cardinality metrics at ingestion time
  • Build Grafana dashboards with template variables ($job, $instance) for reusable panels across services
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Common Patterns

  • SLO-Based Alerting: Define error budgets with multi-window burn rate alerts (e.g., 1h window at 14.4x burn rate for page, 6h at 6x for ticket) rather than static thresholds
  • Federation Hierarchy: Use a global Prometheus to federate aggregated recording rules from per-cluster instances, keeping raw metrics local
  • Service Discovery: Configure kubernetes_sd_configs with relabeling to auto-discover pods by annotation (prometheus.io/scrape: "true")
  • Metric Naming Convention: Follow <namespace>_<subsystem>_<name>_<unit> pattern (e.g., http_server_request_duration_seconds) with _total suffix for counters

Pitfalls to Avoid

  • Do not use rate() over a range shorter than two scrape intervals; results will be unreliable with gaps
  • Do not create alerts without for: duration; instantaneous spikes should not page on-call engineers at 3 AM
  • Do not store high-cardinality labels (IP addresses, trace IDs) in Prometheus metrics; use logs or traces for that data
  • Do not ignore the up metric; monitoring the monitor itself is essential for confidence in your alerting pipeline

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Files

Just SKILL.md in crates/openfang-skills/bundled/prometheus of RightNow-AI/openfang.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit acf2587

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Categories

Questions about Prometheus

What does Prometheus do?

Prometheus monitoring expert for PromQL, alerting rules, Grafana dashboards, and observability. Prometheus is an agent skill from RightNow-AI/openfang.

When should I use Prometheus?

Prometheus fits situations like: tasks that involve Monitoring and alerting.

How do I install Prometheus in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add RightNow-AI/openfang --skill prometheus -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (crates/openfang-skills/bundled/prometheus in RightNow-AI/openfang) into .claude/skills/prometheus in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Prometheus in Codex?

Run `npx skills add RightNow-AI/openfang --skill prometheus -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (crates/openfang-skills/bundled/prometheus in RightNow-AI/openfang) into .agents/skills/prometheus in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Prometheus 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 RightNow-AI/openfang --skill prometheus -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/prometheus, .gemini/skills/prometheus, .github/skills/prometheus and .opencode/skills/prometheus in your project.

What does Prometheus need to run?

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

Does Prometheus 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 Prometheus 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 Prometheus use?

Prometheus is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Prometheus use?

About 738 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 Prometheus?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Prometheus: Happy Infra Metrics and Grafana (slopus/happy, 24k stars), Syncmeta (pawurb/hotpath-rs, 1.9k stars), Optimize Slurm Topology (NVlabs/alpasim, 1.3k stars) and Dashboard Preview (m4r1k/Eneru, 149 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Prometheus?

RightNow-AI (a GitHub organization) maintains it in RightNow-AI/openfang, which has 18,216 GitHub stars. The repository holds 68 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on July 2, 2026.

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