An agent often wants to record something while it works: a value it just computed, an occurrence it noticed. The trap is reaching for a span every time, because managing trace context (start, parent, end) from inside a reasoning step is error-prone and orphans spans, which pollute the trace and lose the parent relationship. The fix is to route by signal type so emitting is safe without threading context by hand. This complements agent-otel-trajectory (which emits per-tool-call spans from the harness); this skill is the at-will value/event path.
Otel Emit At Will is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/otel-emit-at-will/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when an agent needs to emit a telemetry value or event mid-reasoning without managing trace context. Route by signal type (metrics first, events, spans only when parentable) so an agent never orphans a span or has to thread context by hand.
The Otel Emit At Will Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 196,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/otel-emit-at-will curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/otel-emit-at-will/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/otel-emit-at-will/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/otel-emit-at-will/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/otel-emit-at-will/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\otel-emit-at-will\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/otel-emit-at-will/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Otel Emit At Will is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{otel-emit-at-will-2026,
author = {selamy-labs},
title = {Otel Emit At Will [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/otel-emit-at-will/}
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