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Notes from building the agent. Release notes say what changed in a version. These pages are for the things that took longer to work out than they took to ship.

13 October 2026Conventions

How to name a metric so tools read it right

Nobody reads a metric name except machines. When one is wrong they do not fail, they answer with a number nobody measured. The rules Prometheus and OpenTelemetry share, and what we found when we checked our own output against them.

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