Grades are a hygiene check, not a security guarantee.

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honeycomb

Skills, agents, and workflows for Honeycomb observability — query patterns, production investigations, SLOs, OpenTelemetry instrumentation, and Beeline migration.

Compatibility: Not stated.

Grade B

Minor issues only, no Medium or High. Worth a quick look at the findings below before installing.

Graded by PlugVetRubric v2

Not a guarantee. A hygiene check of the source at the commit shown, not a security audit.

Rescanned at commit 6bb09279fc3f, unchanged since the check below.

NETWORK_NO_FIXED_HOST SECRETS_PATH_DOTENV SECRETS_ENV_READ

Why this grade

  • NETWORK_NO_FIXED_HOST Low

    Makes a network call whose host is not written as a fixed address.

    skills/otel-genai-instrumentation/references/agent-and-tool-patterns.md, line 120 const response = await fetch(agentUrl, {

  • SECRETS_PATH_DOTENV Low

    Mentions a .env file.

    skills/otel-genai-instrumentation/SKILL.md, line 489 # .env

  • SECRETS_ENV_READ Note

    Reads an environment variable whose name contains KEY, SECRET, TOKEN, PASSWORD or CREDENTIAL.

    skills/otel-instrumentation/references/sdk-setup-by-language.md, line 51 const headers = { "x-honeycomb-team": process.env.HONEYCOMB_API_KEY };

Any High, or two or more Medium findings, give D. One Medium gives C. Low findings or a security Note give B. Each code names a finding behind the letter.

Grades are a hygiene check of the source at the commit shown, on the date checked, not a security audit or a guarantee. The free directory grades are automated. Before release, a PlugVet engineer reviews every paid report and any grade we hold back, including all F grades, against the source code and the evidence we quote.

What was checked

Plain notes from the hygiene checks.

  • Permissions

    Pass

    No shell or command call was found in the code. This check does not read permissions an entry declares. A permission line to write or edit files was found in this repository, and it may apply to this entry.

  • Install and update

    Pass

    No install-time script found, and dependencies are pinned or absent.

  • Network

    Concern

    can reach a host that is not written as a fixed address.

    NETWORK_NO_FIXED_HOST

    skills/otel-genai-instrumentation/references/agent-and-tool-patterns.md, line 120

    const response = await fetch(agentUrl, {

    skills/otel-genai-instrumentation/references/agent-and-tool-patterns.md, line 143

    response = requests.post(agent_url, headers=headers, json=payload)

    skills/otel-instrumentation/references/sdk-setup-by-language.md, line 140

    curl -L -o opentelemetry-javaagent.jar \

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    skills/otel-migration/references/migration-pitfalls.md, line 135

    urllib.request.urlopen(url)

    skills/query-patterns/references/result-interpretation.md, line 24

    curl -s "$URL" | jq '.results[].data'

    skills/query-patterns/references/result-interpretation.md, line 29

    curl -s "$URL" | jq '.series[] | select(.data.name == "checkout") | .data["P99(duration_ms)"]'

    skills/query-patterns/references/result-interpretation.md, line 34

    curl -s "$URL" | jq '[.results[].data["HEATMAP(duration_ms)"].counts] | add'

    skills/query-patterns/references/result-interpretation.md, line 42

    raw = json.loads(urllib.request.urlopen(url).read())

  • Secrets

    Concern

    reads a credential or environment file.

    SECRETS_ENV_READ SECRETS_PATH_DOTENV

    skills/otel-genai-instrumentation/SKILL.md, line 489

    # .env

    skills/otel-genai-instrumentation/SKILL.md, line 510

    # .env

    skills/otel-instrumentation/references/sdk-setup-by-language.md, line 51

    const headers = { "x-honeycomb-team": process.env.HONEYCOMB_API_KEY };

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    skills/otel-genai-instrumentation/SKILL.md, line 485

    ### Example: .env Configuration

    skills/otel-instrumentation/SKILL.md, line 71

    programmatically. If loading the key from `.env`, ensure dotenv runs before SDK init.

    skills/otel-instrumentation/references/sdk-setup-by-language.md, line 44

    A common mistake: the app has `HONEYCOMB_API_KEY` in `.env` but never sets

    skills/otel-instrumentation/references/sdk-setup-by-language.md, line 56

    Also ensure `.env` is loaded (e.g., `import "dotenv/config"`) **before** the OTel SDK

  • Agent instructions

    Pass

    No instruction to ignore earlier instructions or to hide a step.

  • Obfuscation

    Pass

    No encoded or minified payload found.

  • Licence

    Pass

    A licence file is present (LICENSE).

  • Maintainer activity

    Pass

    The latest commit is within the last 365 days.

Note

Hygiene check of commit 6bb09279fc3f. can reach a host that is not written as a fixed address. reads a credential or environment file.

Date and source

Date checked:

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Commit graded: 6bb09279fc3fb69abf113228be939dbb929e34f1

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