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This skill automatically wires up essential production observability—Sentry error capture, request-ID logging, and health endpoints—into a newly scaffolded service. It's applied during app generation and infrastructure provisioning to ensure the service is monitorable from day one. Developers should use it for any new backend service archetype, but not for libraries or static sites.
Quick Install
Claude Code
Recommendednpx skills add avelikiy/great_cto -a claude-code/plugin add https://github.com/avelikiy/great_ctogit clone https://github.com/avelikiy/great_cto.git ~/.claude/skills/observability-baselineCopy and paste this command in Claude Code to install this skill
Documentation
observability-baseline
stack-baseline names Sentry and wires it nowhere — so every shipped product's first prod incident is invisible, and l3-support triages blind. This skill makes three things exist at scaffold time. Defaults baked in; no founder question.
1. Error capture (Sentry)
instrumentation.ts(Next.js) / SDK init at process start; DSN fromSENTRY_DSNenv (never hardcoded).- CI uploads source maps on release so stack traces are readable (release = git sha).
- Capture unhandled rejections + a global error boundary on the client.
2. Request-id structured logging
- A logger that emits JSON (not
console.logprose) with a per-requestrequest_id(generate at the edge, propagate via header/async-local-storage). - Levels: error / warn / info / debug — diagnostics go to stderr, never mixed into user-facing stdout. (Same discipline as the CLI logging gap, DEEPEN d94.)
- One log line per request with: request_id, method, path, status, latency_ms.
3. Health endpoints
GET /healthz— liveness (process up).GET /readyz— readiness (deps reachable: db, cache). Cheap, unauthenticated, no PII.- These are what infra-provisioner probes and what a load balancer checks.
Wiring (a skill is shelfware unless a consumer loads it)
| Consumer | What it does with this skill |
|---|---|
| app-scaffolder | bakes instrumentation.ts + the JSON logger + /healthz+/readyz into the generated app; adds SENTRY_DSN to .env.example |
| infra-provisioner | sets SENTRY_DSN in the prod env list; points the platform health probe at /readyz; records the Sentry project in PROVISION |
| l3-support | first triage step reads Sentry + the request-id logs (a trace now exists to read) |
| devops | deploy gate fails if /readyz doesn't return 200 post-deploy |
Output
A scaffolded app where the first prod error is captured, every request is traceable
by id, and the platform can health-check it. Record the Sentry project + endpoints
in docs/infra/PROVISION-{slug}.md. Done = the three pieces exist AND are wired
into the prod env, not just present in code.
GitHub Repository
Frequently asked questions
What is the observability-baseline skill?
observability-baseline is a Claude Skill by avelikiy. Skills package instructions and resources that Claude loads on demand, so Claude can perform observability-baseline-related tasks without extra prompting.
How do I install observability-baseline?
Use the install commands on this page: add observability-baseline to Claude Code as a plugin, or clone its repository into your skills directory, then restart Claude so it picks up the skill.
What category does observability-baseline belong to?
observability-baseline is in the Other category, tagged general.
Is observability-baseline free to use?
Yes. observability-baseline is listed on AIMCP and free to install. It runs inside Claude, so no separate service account is required to use the skill itself.
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