Agent Skill
Honeycomb Tracing skill
honeycomb-tracingpaperclipai/paperclip.agents/skills/honeycomb-tracing/SKILL.md
Trace Paperclip runs, requests, and full CI suites in Honeycomb. Use to find traces, diagnose latency, design readable and foldable waterfalls, configure opt-in OpenTelemetry, or add missing spans.
always on
47 tokname + description
once used
2,490 tokSKILL.md body
bundled files
417 KB
repo stars
106kGitHub
Install the Honeycomb Tracing skill
Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)
npx skills add https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip --skill honeycomb-tracing
Claude Code, by hand (all projects)
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip.git /tmp/paperclip mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills cp -R /tmp/paperclip/.agents/skills/honeycomb-tracing ~/.claude/skills/honeycomb-tracing
For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.
What it costs your context
Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.
| When | What loads | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Every session | Name and description | 47 tok |
| When the agent uses it | The SKILL.md instructions | 2,490 tok |
| Only if opened | 4 bundled files (17 KB) | varies |
Until it is used, honeycomb-tracing costs about 29× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 82 skills from paperclipai/paperclip would load 3,485 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study
Checks
Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.
Checked 2026-10-22 · method
What's inside
The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.
- Honeycomb Tracing
- Choose the data path
- Find the application's trace
- Read the timeline correctly
- Design a human-readable waterfall
- Add only the missing instrumentation
- Compare and hand back useful evidence
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