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otel-telemetrygen

Build safe, version-pinned telemetrygen commands for synthetic OTLP traces, metrics, and logs. Use for “send sample traces to this collector,” “load-test an OTLP endpoint,” “generate traffic to verify a processor, OTTL transform, or tail sampling,” and “produce test data for dashboards.” Also use when choosing telemetrygen transport, TLS, attributes, counts, duration, or rate. Not for application SDK instrumentation or production collection that does not use telemetrygen.

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Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A dense, expertly structured skill: executable bounded examples, a real safety gate, non-obvious rate/throughput semantics, and clean one-level reference splitting. The only weakness is mild redundancy in the environment-variable section and closing checklist.

Suggestions

Tighten the "Make environment behavior explicit" section: state once that explicit flags cover endpoint/path/TLS/timeout while common and signal-specific header/compression variables can remain inherited, instead of restating the distinction across three paragraphs.

Trim the closing pre-response checklist so each bullet states a check not already mandated verbatim earlier (e.g., drop the restated rate-vs-delivered-throughput wording and keep it as a pointer).

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Conciseness

Almost every sentence carries tool-specific, non-obvious facts (the "workers * rate / (n + 1)" trace-rate formula, OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_* env leakage, duration-overrides-count semantics) with no generic OpenTelemetry padding. However, the "Make environment behavior explicit" section restates the common/signal-specific header-and-compression distinction several times, and the closing checklist repeats earlier guidance — efficient, but noticeably above the midpoint rather than perfectly lean.

4 / 5

Actionability

Copy-paste-ready executable commands cover the common cases: three minimal bounded shapes (traces, metrics, logs), pinned install commands ("go install …@v0.162.0", "docker pull ghcr.io/…:v0.162.0"), and a complete docker run example. The numbered construction steps give exact flags and defaults, and exhaustive flag lookup is delegated to the reference.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

"Construct a command" is a clearly sequenced 1–6 workflow with explicit bounds, the safety gate requires authorization and a reviewed budget before any run, collector verification prescribes validation (fresh output dir, known-positive control, "Empty output alone never proves a filter worked"), and a final pre-response checklist closes the loop. For a load-generation skill, validation and feedback checkpoints are emphatically present, so the destructive-operation cap does not apply.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is an overview of decisions and safety, with exhaustive material split one level deep into well-signaled existing references: "Look up exact names, defaults, supported values … in references/flags.md" and "follow references/collector-verification.md" for the verification recipe, plus a Kubernetes Job pointer. Both referenced files exist and each is linked with a clear purpose.

5 / 5

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20

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Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is a model example: concrete third-person capability statement, multiple natural trigger phrases, an explicit use-when clause, and a negative scope boundary that prevents mis-triggering. No fluff or over-claims.

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Specificity

"Build safe, version-pinned telemetrygen commands for synthetic OTLP traces, metrics, and logs" names multiple concrete actions (build commands, choose transport, TLS, attributes, counts, duration, rate), with comprehensive coverage of the tool's decision surface. Fits the anchor 'Lists multiple specific concrete actions; comprehensive coverage'; nothing is generic or padded.

5 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers what ("Build safe, version-pinned telemetrygen commands for synthetic OTLP traces, metrics, and logs") and when ("Use for…" with concrete trigger phrases, plus "Also use when choosing telemetrygen transport, TLS, attributes, counts, duration, or rate"), and adds exclusions. Clearly the anchor-5 case of both what and when with concrete triggers.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Quoted phrases like "send sample traces to this collector," "load-test an OTLP endpoint," "generate traffic to verify a processor, OTTL transform, or tail sampling," and "produce test data for dashboards" are natural user phrasings, plus synonyms (traces, metrics, logs, OTLP, test data). Matches the comprehensive-synonyms anchor rather than the 'a few natural terms missing' anchor.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The tool-specific name and the explicit exclusion "Not for application SDK instrumentation or production collection that does not use telemetrygen" carve out a clear niche with minimal overlap against OTel-SDK or collector-config skills. Matches 'Clear niche with distinct triggers; minimal conflict risk.'

5 / 5

Total

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20

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Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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No warnings or errors.

Repository

ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills

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skills/otel-telemetrygen/SKILL.md

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