logging-observability

Trigger: logging, observability, metrics, traces. Evaluate operationally useful logging for safe refactors.

SKILL.md

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Activation Contract

Load this skill when reviewing refactor plans for: logging, observability, metrics, traces.

Hard Rules

  • Flag noisy, duplicated, wrong-level, context-free, sensitive, or repeated exception logs.
  • Recommend logs only at useful boundaries, decisions, and failure points.
  • Use observability to validate before/after behavior without changing business behavior.
  • Preserve observable behavior; label functional changes as follow-up.
  • Require evidence for every recommendation, or mark it as a hypothesis.

Decision Gates

Signal Action
Concrete evidence exists Create a finding with file, lines, symbol, benefit, validation, and rollback.
Evidence is incomplete Mark as hypothesis and lower confidence.
Recommendation is cosmetic or speculative Omit it unless maintainability benefit is clear.

Execution Steps

  1. Inspect the target and nearby tests only as needed for this lens.
  2. Identify findings that match this skill's responsibility.
  3. Recommend the smallest safe behavior-preserving refactor.
  4. Add validation and rollback steps for each recommendation.

Output Contract

Return structured findings for the calling reviewer. Return no_findings when this lens has no material issue.

References

None.