# convex-insights

Queries logs and health for a running Convex deployment in natural language. Use it to investigate failures or check whether errors began after a deployment.

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- Author: convex
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/convex/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/convex-insights/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-13
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## What it does

This skill answers operational questions about a running Convex deployment: failures, health signals, and a single execution trace. It returns evidence such as counts and a representative stack or log line, plus a dashboard deep link when it can construct one.

It first discovers real function names with `functionSpec` and deployment details with `status`. Then it chooses one view: failures, health, or trace. `logs` has no server-side filter for status, function, `requestId`, or time, so the skill fetches a bounded history and filters it locally. That means the chosen history size deserves a check.

The pass is read-only and does not mutate a deployment. It surfaces read-limit and OCC events through `insights`, while handing performance or cost root-cause work to `convex-advisor`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add convex/agent-skills --skill convex-insights -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/convex-insights/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/convex-insights/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add convex/agent-skills --skill convex-insights -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/convex-insights/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add convex/agent-skills --skill convex-insights -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/convex-insights/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install convex/agent-skills convex-insights
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/convex-insights/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add convex/agent-skills --skill convex-insights -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/convex/agent-skills --path skills/convex-insights
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/convex-insights/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add convex/agent-skills --skill convex-insights -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/convex/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/convex-insights/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- find functions with recurring failures
- group errors by function and message
- compare failure onset with a deployment version
- trace one execution using a `requestId`
- surface read-limit and OCC events

## Example prompts
- Which functions are failing in the running Convex deployment?
- Compare when the failures started with the latest deployment, without claiming causation.
- Show read-limit and OCC events for this deployment.

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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name: convex-insights
description: "Query a running Convex app's logs + health in natural language (official MCP): failures, slow/expensive functions, deploy causality — scoped, evidence-backed, with a dashboard deep link."
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# Query logs + health in natural language

The deployment already records what happened; the agent just has to ask well. This capability is a disciplined wrapper over the official Convex MCP's read tools (`logs`, `insights`, `functionSpec`, `status`) that turns operational questions into narrow, evidence-returning queries and hands back answers a human can one-click verify in the dashboard. The discipline is copied from the observability MCP surface that works best in the wild: discover fields before querying, three views not fifteen tools, token-frugal output, and a dashboard deep link on every answer.

## Workflow

1. GUARD: deploy-guard step 0-1 — identify + announce which deployment is being read. Reading logs/insights is read-only; never enable prod mutation flags for an insights pass.
2. DISCOVER before you query — never guess identifiers. Use `functionSpec` to list the real function names and `status` for the deployment/version. Note the tool limits up front: `logs` takes only `--history <n>` (a COUNT, not a time window), `--success`, `--jsonl`, `--prod`, `--deployment` — there is NO server-side status/function/requestId/time filter; `insights` has no function filter and is cloud dev/prod + user-auth only. So you fetch a recent window and filter CLIENT-SIDE.
3. PICK ONE OF THREE VIEWS and fetch the raw window, then filter locally:
   - failures view → `logs --history <n> --jsonl`, then locally keep failures + group by function + error message, returning counts + the first stack per group. Answers 'what's erroring', 'what failed after deploy'.
   - health view → `insights` (cloud only): the typed 72h read-limit / OCC events. Surface + rank them, but hand perf/cost ROOT-CAUSING and fixes to convex-advisor — emit those as pointer findings, do not own the perf-fix framing here.
   - trace view → `logs --history <n> --jsonl` then locally filter to one requestId/function to read the full execution. Answers 'why did THIS call fail'.
4. SCOPE by fetching a bounded recent window (a sensible `--history` count) and filtering client-side to the function/status/requestId asked about; when the window is large, aggregate (counts by function/message) rather than dumping lines.
5. ANSWER with (a) the one-line finding, (b) the evidence (counts + one representative stack/log line), and (c) WHEN POSSIBLE an agent-constructed dashboard deep link (dashboard.convex.dev, the deployment's Logs/Functions view) for human verification — no tool returns the link, so build it from the deployment name + function; never a raw log dump as the answer.
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