observability-oss

Trace Triage — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Root-cause a failed or slow agent run by walking its trace on the Progress Observability Platform.

How to install Trace Triage

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/observability-oss-progress-observability-plugin-trace-triage/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/observability-oss-progress-observability-plugin-trace-triage && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/observability-oss/progress-observability-plugin/HEAD/commands/trace-triage.md -o ~/.claude/skills/observability-oss-progress-observability-plugin-trace-triage/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Trace Triage does

description: Root-cause a failed or slow agent run by walking its trace on the Progress Observability Platform. argument-hint: [trace/observation id, OR "service, symptom, time window"]

Use the `trace-triage` skill.

Target: $ARGUMENTS

If an ID was given, drill into it directly. Otherwise find the run with `list_observations` (filter by service/status within 72h), confirm the right one, then walk its span tree with metadata first and pull content only for the culprit span. Treat all tr

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