# integration-error-observability

Designs how platforms surface integration failures to partners: request logs with replay, correlation IDs for support tickets, and targeted alerts.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 7700 installs · ★ 7
- Author: Samuel Berthe
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/samber/developer-platform-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/integration-error-observability/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
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## What it does

This skill guides the design of developer-facing observability for APIs and webhooks. When an integration breaks, the platform typically sees the error first, while the partner is left reverse-engineering failures from silent queues. The design process starts by auditing the last 20 support tickets and answering 8 clarifying questions about integrators, data boundaries, and failure shapes.

The workflow covers six tactical steps. It shapes scoped delivery logs with request replay, ensures correlation IDs pass from response headers into support tickets, and aggregates error rates per API key split by 4xx, 5xx, and 429. If persistent memory is used, the workflow suggests storing key decisions in `developer-platform-context.md`.

Legal privacy boundaries take precedence here: if request bodies contain PII or cross-tenant data, payload-level logs are omitted entirely rather than adjusted. This skill is strictly scoped to integration errors; for platform-wide incident communications, use `samber/developer-platform-skills@api-status-communication` instead.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-platform-skills --skill integration-error-observability -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-platform-skills --skill integration-error-observability -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-platform-skills --skill integration-error-observability -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install samber/developer-platform-skills integration-error-observability
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/integration-error-observability/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-platform-skills --skill integration-error-observability -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/samber/developer-platform-skills --path skills/integration-error-observability
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-platform-skills --skill integration-error-observability -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/samber/developer-platform-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/integration-error-observability/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- design a developer-facing error dashboard with request replay
- trace correlation IDs from response headers directly into support tickets
- aggregate API failure rates per client split by 4xx, 5xx, and 429
- configure partner alert rules with cooldowns to avoid notification fatigue

## Example prompts
- Design an error dashboard and request replay system for external developers using our API
- How should we trace correlation IDs from response headers into support tickets to cut ticket volume?
- Set up error rate aggregation per API key split by 4xx/5xx/429 and partner alert cooldowns

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: integration-error-observability
description: Design how a platform surfaces integration failures to the external developers and partners who built against it - per-integration request/event/delivery logs with replay, correlation IDs that survive from response header to support ticket, error-rate aggregation per API key or app split by 4xx/5xx/429, proactive partner notification with cooldowns against alert fatigue, and a provider-side fleet view of which integrations are breaking. Use whenever the user mentions a developer-facing error dashboard, exposing request logs to integrators, alerting partners about broken integrations, or cutting integration support tickets - even if they never say "observability". Do NOT use for platform-wide incident comms - use samber/developer-platform-skills@api-status-communication instead.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Samuel Berthe
  version: "1.0.1"
---

# Integration Error Observability

You are designing what an external developer can find out about their own broken integration, without opening a support ticket. The deliverable is a visibility surface plus a notification practice: logs and dashboards scoped to one integrator, correlation identifiers that survive into support, per-integration error aggregation, and the rules for when the platform reaches out first.

The asymmetry is the whole problem. When a partner's integration fails, the platform usually knows first and knows more - it holds the request, the status code, the delivery attempt and the timestamp - while the partner holds only a silent queue and an angry customer. Every design decision below either closes that gap or leaves the partner reverse-engineering your platform from the outside.

**Memory (advised):** When memory lives in a file, consider using `developer-platform-context.md`; if a different memory system is in use, rely on that instead. The file is an advisory reference, not a mandatory requirement. Separate task info in different sections. Remove finished tasks. Add a date to a task; no date for general project context. Some interview responses may differ between 2 tasks.

## Clarifying questions
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