OpenTelemetry SDK setup, custom instrumentation, and sending data to Honeycomb. Trigger phrases: "instrument my app", "add tracing", "set up OpenTelemetry", "configure OTel", "add custom spans", "add attributes to spans", "send traces to Honeycomb", "set up OTLP", "configure sampling", "add span events", "add span links", "set up tracing for [any language]", "configure the OTel Collector".
Install
npx skills add honeycombio/agent-skill --skill otel-instrumentationnpx skills add honeycombio/agent-skill --skill otel-instrumentation -a claude-code -gnpx skills add honeycombio/agent-skill --skill otel-instrumentation -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/honeycombio/agent-skill.git --path honeycomb/skills/otel-instrumentationgh skill install honeycombio/agent-skill otel-instrumentationgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/honeycombio/agent-skill /tmp/honeycombio__agent-skill
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/honeycombio__agent-skill/honeycomb/skills/otel-instrumentation ~/.claude/skills/otel-instrumentation # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/honeycombio__agent-skill/honeycomb/skills/otel-instrumentation ~/.agents/skills/otel-instrumentation # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode