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Opentelemetry Agent Skills

Vendor-neutral OpenTelemetry skills for AI coding agents, grounded in upstream sources

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Overview

A collection of token-efficient, agent-friendly OpenTelemetry skills for AI coding agents, installable via skills.sh or Claude Code plugin marketplace.

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OpenTelemetry Agent Skills

This repository contains reusable agent skills for OpenTelemetry.

The skills are non-opinionated by design — there are many valid ways to use OpenTelemetry, and prescribing conventions is out of scope.

They are designed for token-efficient, agent-friendly retrieval: small fetch tables, lookup indexes, and scripts that point at upstream sources of truth instead of copying docs into context. The agent finds what it missed during training; answers stay current as the project evolves.

Installation

skills.sh

Install all skills:

npx skills add https://github.com/ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills

Or install a single skill by pointing at its folder, e.g.:

npx skills add https://github.com/ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/otel-go
Claude Code
  1. Register the repository as a plugin marketplace:

    /plugin marketplace add ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills
    
  2. Install a skill:

    /plugin install <skill-name>@opentelemetry-agent-skills
    

    For example:

    /plugin install otel-go@opentelemetry-agent-skills
    

Repository Structure

Each skill is a self-contained folder under skills/, named to match its name: field per the agentskills.io specification. Language-specific skills bundle task-focused references; language-agnostic skills sit alongside them.

skills/
  otel-go/
    SKILL.md           # name: otel-go
    references/        # declarative-setup, api, instrumentation-libraries, performance, breaking-changes, compile-time-instrumentation
  otel-java/
    SKILL.md
    references/
  otel-js/
    SKILL.md
    references/
  otel-python/
    SKILL.md
    references/
  otel-dotnet/
    SKILL.md
    references/
  otel-browser/
    SKILL.md
    references/        # setup-sdk, instrumentation, performance
  otel-collector/
    SKILL.md
    components/        # one directory per Coll
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# OpenTelemetry Agent Skills

This repository contains reusable agent skills for OpenTelemetry.

The skills are **non-opinionated by design** — there are many valid ways to use OpenTelemetry, and prescribing conventions is out of scope.

They are designed for **token-efficient, agent-friendly retrieval**: small fetch tables, lookup indexes, and scripts that point at upstream sources of truth instead of copying docs into context. The agent finds what it missed during training; answers stay current as the project evolves.

## Installation

### skills.sh

Install all skills:

```bash
npx skills add https://github.com/ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills
```

Or install a single skill by pointing at its folder, e.g.:

```bash
npx skills add https://github.com/ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/otel-go
```

### Claude Code

1. Register the repository as a plugin marketplace:

   ```
   /plugin marketplace add ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills
   ```

2. Install a skill:

   ```
   /plugin install <skill-name>@opentelemetry-agent-skills
   ```

   For example:

   ```
   /plugin install otel-go@opentelemetry-agent-skills
   ```

## Repository Structure

Each skill is a self-contained folder under `skills/`, named to match its `name:` field per
the [agentskills.io specification](https://agentskills.io/specification). Language-specific
skills bundle task-focused references; language-agnostic skills sit alongside them.

```
skills/
  otel-go/
    SKILL.md           # name: otel-go
    references/        # declarative-setup, api, instrumentation-libraries, performance, breaking-changes, compile-time-instrumentation
  otel-java/
    SKILL.md
    references/
  otel-js/
    SKILL.md
    references/
  otel-python/
    SKILL.md
    references/
  otel-dotnet/
    SKILL.md
    references/
  otel-browser/
    SKILL.md
    references/        # setup-sdk, instrumentation, performance
  otel-collector/
    SKILL.md
    components/        # one directory per Coll

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Source repository
ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills
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1.0.0
Last GitHub push
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  • GitHub adoption: 65 GitHub stars
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