Dash0 acquires Polar Signals
Teach AI coding agents OpenTelemetry best practices so they emit high-quality, cost-efficient telemetry from the start.
Dash0 Agent Skills are packaged instructions that plug into AI coding agents — including Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf — and give them the knowledge to emit high-quality, cost-efficient OpenTelemetry telemetry from the start.
When an agent scaffolds a new service or adds a feature, it rarely sets up instrumentation — and when it does, the result is often noisy, non-standard telemetry that obscures more than it reveals. Agent Skills close that gap by providing prescriptive, actionable guidance that agents can follow without human interpretation.
Dash0 Agent Skills follow the Agent Skills format and can be installed with a single command. Once installed, the skills activate automatically whenever the agent works on a relevant task.
npx installer)npx skills add dash0hq/agent-skillsAfter installation, ask your agent to perform an observability task and verify the skills are being used:
Add OpenTelemetry instrumentation to my appSet up an OpenTelemetry Collector pipeline that forwards to Dash0Ensure that my HTTP server spans have the correct attributesThe agent should follow the skill guidance automatically — using correct resource attributes, proper span status handling, appropriate metric instrument types, and semantic convention-compliant attribute names.
Pair the skills with Claude Code's headless mode to run automated instrumentation reviews on every pull request:
claude -p "Review the OpenTelemetry instrumentation changes in this PR. \
Check for missing context propagation, incorrect span status handling, \
and semantic convention violations." \
--allowedTools "Read,Grep,Glob"