Paths: File paths (shared/ , references/ , ../ln-* ) are relative to skills repo root. If not found at CWD, locate this SKILL.md directory and go up one level for repo root. If shared/ is missing, fetch files via WebFetch from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/levnikolaevich/claude-code-skills/master/skills/{path} .

Observability Auditor (L3 Worker)

Type: L3 Worker

Specialized worker auditing logging, monitoring, and observability.

Purpose & Scope

• Audit observability (Category 10: Medium Priority)

• Check logging, health checks, metrics, tracing

• Calculate compliance score (X/10)

Inputs

MANDATORY READ: Load shared/references/audit_worker_core_contract.md . MANDATORY READ: Load shared/references/mcp_tool_preferences.md and shared/references/mcp_integration_patterns.md

Receives contextStore with tech stack, framework, codebase root, output_dir.

Use hex-graph first when traces, call paths, or cross-file references materially improve the audit. Use hex-line first for local code reads when available. If MCP is unavailable, unsupported, or not indexed, continue with built-in Read/Grep/Glob/Bash and state the fallback in the report.

Workflow

MANDATORY READ: Load shared/references/two_layer_detection.md for detection methodology.

• Parse context + output_dir

• Determine project type (Layer 2 pre-check): Is this a web service (all checks apply), CLI tool (health/probes not applicable), or library (most checks optional)? Adjust applicable checks accordingly.

• Check observability patterns (Layer 1: grep)

• Analyze context per candidate (Layer 2):

• Structured logging: is this a library (no logging OK) or a service (logging required)?

• Health endpoints: web service -> required. CLI/library -> skip

• Request tracing: monolith -> less needed. Microservice -> critical

• Collect confirmed findings

• Calculate score

• Write Report: Build full markdown report in memory per shared/templates/audit_worker_report_template.md , write to {output_dir}/ln-627--global.md in single Write call

• Return Summary: Return minimal summary to coordinator

Audit Rules

1. Structured Logging

Detection:

• Grep for console.log (unstructured)

• Check for proper logger: winston, pino, logrus, zap

Severity:

• MEDIUM: Production code using console.log

• LOW: Dev code using console.log

Recommendation: Use structured logger (winston, pino)

Effort: M (add logger, replace calls)

2. Health Check Endpoints

Detection:

• Grep for /health , /ready , /live routes

• Check API route definitions

Severity:

• HIGH: No health check endpoint (monitoring blind spot)

Recommendation: Add /health endpoint

Effort: S (add simple route)

3. Metrics Collection

Detection:

• Check for Prometheus client, StatsD, CloudWatch

• Grep for metric recording: histogram , counter

Severity:

• MEDIUM: No metrics instrumentation

Recommendation: Add Prometheus metrics

Effort: M (instrument code)

4. Request Tracing

Detection:

• Check for correlation IDs in logs

• Verify trace propagation (OpenTelemetry, Zipkin)

Severity:

• MEDIUM: No correlation IDs (hard to debug distributed systems)

Recommendation: Add request ID middleware

Effort: M (add middleware, propagate IDs)

5. Log Levels

Detection:

• Check if logger supports levels (info, warn, error, debug)

• Verify proper level usage

Severity:

• LOW: Only error logging (insufficient visibility)

Recommendation: Add info/debug logs

Effort: S (add log statements)

Scoring Algorithm

MANDATORY READ: Load shared/references/audit_worker_core_contract.md and shared/references/audit_scoring.md .

Output Format

MANDATORY READ: Load shared/references/audit_worker_core_contract.md and shared/templates/audit_worker_report_template.md .

Write JSON summary per shared/references/audit_summary_contract.md . In managed mode the caller passes both runId and summaryArtifactPath ; in standalone mode the worker generates its own run-scoped artifact path per shared contract.

Write report to {output_dir}/ln-627--global.md with category: "Observability" and checks: structured_logging, health_endpoints, metrics_collection, request_tracing, log_levels.

Return summary per shared/references/audit_summary_contract.md .

When summaryArtifactPath is absent, write the standalone runtime summary under .hex-skills/runtime-artifacts/runs/{run_id}/evaluation-worker/{worker}--{identifier}.json and optionally echo the same summary in structured output.

Report written: .hex-skills/runtime-artifacts/runs/{run_id}/audit-report/ln-627--global.md Score: X.X/10 | Issues: N (C:N H:N M:N L:N)

Reference Files

• Audit output schema: shared/references/audit_output_schema.md

Critical Rules

MANDATORY READ: Load shared/references/audit_worker_core_contract.md .

• Do not auto-fix: Report only, never inject logging or endpoints

• Framework-aware detection: Adapt patterns to project's tech stack (winston/pino for Node, logrus/zap for Go, etc.)

• Effort realism: S = <1h, M = 1-4h, L = >4h

• Exclusions: Skip test files for console.log detection, skip dev-only scripts

• Context-sensitive severity: console.log in production code = MEDIUM, in dev utilities = LOW

Definition of Done

MANDATORY READ: Load shared/references/audit_worker_core_contract.md .

• contextStore parsed (tech stack, framework, output_dir)

• All 5 checks completed (structured logging, health endpoints, metrics, request tracing, log levels)

• Findings collected with severity, location, effort, recommendation

• Score calculated per shared/references/audit_scoring.md

• Report written to {output_dir}/ln-627--global.md (atomic single Write call)

• Summary written per contract

Version: 3.0.0 Last Updated: 2025-12-23