langfuse

name	langfuse
description	Use Langfuse for LLM observability and evaluation and look up Langfuse documentation. In HybridClaw, data access (traces, observations, sessions, scores, prompts, datasets, metrics) goes through the gateway-proxied langfuse.cjs helper with SecretRef auth — reads are green, writes are grant-gated. Documentation retrieval uses langfuse.com llms.txt, markdown pages, and search-docs. Covers instrumentation, prompt migration, error analysis, and LLM-as-a-judge calibration.
user-invocable	true
requires	{"bins":["node"]}
credentials	[{"id":"langfuse-basic-auth","kind":"header","required":true,"secret_ref":{"source":"store","id":"LANGFUSE_BASIC_AUTH"},"scope":"Langfuse public API Authorization Basic header secret for <LANGFUSE_HOST>/api/public","how_to_obtain":"In Langfuse, open Project Settings → API Keys and create a key pair\n(public key `pk-lf-...` and secret key `sk-lf-...`). Locally base64-encode\n`public-key:secret-key` and store only that encoded credential in chat with\n`/secret set LANGFUSE_BASIC_AUTH \"<base64-public-colon-secret>\"`.\nThe same key reads observability data and writes scores, comments,\ndatasets, and prompt versions.\n"}]
config_variables	[{"id":"langfuse-host","env":"LANGFUSE_HOST","required":true,"scope":"Langfuse API base URL used in <LANGFUSE_HOST>/api/public","how_to_obtain":"Use your Langfuse deployment base URL: `https://cloud.langfuse.com` (EU),\n`https://us.cloud.langfuse.com` (US), `https://jp.cloud.langfuse.com` (JP),\nor your self-hosted origin. Store it in chat with\n`/env set LANGFUSE_HOST https://cloud.langfuse.com`.\n"}]
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Langfuse

This skill helps you use Langfuse effectively across all common workflows: instrumenting applications, migrating prompts, debugging traces, accessing data, and evaluating outputs.

HybridClaw integration. This is the official Langfuse skill (github.com/langfuse/skills, MIT) adapted for HybridClaw. Two things differ from the upstream skill:

1. Credentials never leave the gateway. Do not export LANGFUSE_PUBLIC_KEY / LANGFUSE_SECRET_KEY, run npx langfuse-cli, or paste keys anywhere. Store them once in the runtime stores (below); the gateway injects them server-side.
2. Data access goes through langfuse.cjs, not the Langfuse CLI. The helper builds each REST request and sends it through the HybridClaw gateway, which resolves Authorization: Basic <secret:LANGFUSE_BASIC_AUTH> and the <env:LANGFUSE_HOST> base URL. Wherever a reference says to run langfuse-cli or curl -H "Authorization: Basic $AUTH", use the helper instead. Documentation retrieval (section 2) is unchanged.

HybridClaw setup

The helper never sees credentials. Store two values once:

1. LANGFUSE_BASIC_AUTH — base64 of public-key:secret-key: /secret set LANGFUSE_BASIC_AUTH "<base64-public-colon-secret>"
2. LANGFUSE_HOST — your Langfuse base URL: /env set LANGFUSE_HOST https://cloud.langfuse.com (use https://us.cloud.langfuse.com for US, https://jp.cloud.langfuse.com for JP, or your self-hosted origin).

Local-terminal alternative: hybridclaw secret set LANGFUSE_BASIC_AUTH "<...>" and hybridclaw env set LANGFUSE_HOST https://cloud.langfuse.com.

See references/operator-setup.md for key scope, host selection, autonomy defaults, and network-policy notes.

Core Principles

Follow these principles for ALL Langfuse work:

1. Documentation first: never implement from memory. Langfuse updates frequently — fetch current docs (section 2) before writing instrumentation or SDK code.
2. Helper for data access: use langfuse.cjs (gateway + SecretRef) when querying or modifying Langfuse data. It owns endpoints, methods, bodies, stakes tiers, host, and the Basic auth placeholder.
3. Best practices by use case: check the relevant reference below before implementing.
4. Use latest Langfuse versions: unless the user says otherwise, target the latest Langfuse SDKs/APIs.

Use-case references

• instrumenting an existing function/application: references/instrumentation.md
• migrating prompts from a codebase into Langfuse: references/prompt-migration.md
• capturing user feedback (thumbs, ratings, implicit signals) as scores: references/user-feedback.md
• systematic error analysis — reading traces, building a failure taxonomy, deciding what to fix: references/error-analysis.md
• judge calibration (LLM-as-a-Judge reliability, accuracy checks, confusion matrices, metric ingestion): references/judge-calibration.md
• upgrading or migrating Langfuse SDKs: references/sdk-upgrade.md
• CI/CD experiment gates with langfuse/experiment-action: references/ci-cd.md
• raw Langfuse REST/CLI semantics (endpoints, pagination, v2 vs legacy): references/cli.md
• HybridClaw credential, host, autonomy, and network-policy setup: references/operator-setup.md
• submitting feedback about this skill: references/skill-feedback.md

1. Langfuse data access (HybridClaw gateway helper)

langfuse.cjs is the API wrapper. Do not handcraft Langfuse API URLs, JSON bodies, tiers, host, or the Basic auth header from memory.

node skills/langfuse/langfuse.cjs --help

• plan classifies a natural-language request into an operation + tier: node skills/langfuse/langfuse.cjs --format json plan "average eval score this week"
• run executes a live request through the gateway (the gateway injects the Basic auth header): node skills/langfuse/langfuse.cjs --format json run list-traces --user-id alice --limit 50
• http-request emits the gateway-ready payload without calling Langfuse — use it for dry-run inspection or runtimes without helper gateway access.

Read examples (green):

node skills/langfuse/langfuse.cjs --format json run get-trace --trace-id abc123
node skills/langfuse/langfuse.cjs --format json run list-observations --type GENERATION --trace-id abc123
node skills/langfuse/langfuse.cjs --format json run list-scores --name quality
node skills/langfuse/langfuse.cjs --format json run get-prompt --prompt-name support-reply --label production
node skills/langfuse/langfuse.cjs --format json run metrics --query '{"view":"traces","metrics":[{"measure":"count","aggregation":"count"}]}'

Guarded write examples (amber — only after an explicit operator grant):

node skills/langfuse/langfuse.cjs --format json run create-score \
  --trace-id abc123 --name quality --value 0.8 --data-type NUMERIC --comment "reviewed" --operator-grant
node skills/langfuse/langfuse.cjs --format json run create-prompt \
  --name summarizer --type text --prompt "Summarize: {{input}}" --label production --operator-grant

Select region or self-hosted host explicitly (otherwise <env:LANGFUSE_HOST>):

node skills/langfuse/langfuse.cjs --format json run list-traces --host https://us.cloud.langfuse.com

Working rules

• Reads are green. Writes (create-score, create-comment, create-dataset, create-dataset-item, create-prompt) require --operator-grant: produce a plan, wait for the operator's grant, then run the exact approved command.
• Deletions and project / API-key / organization / SCIM administration are out of scope. Use the Langfuse UI for those.
• Page size is capped at 100; use --page (legacy) or --cursor (modern endpoints) to paginate. The helper rejects --limit above 100.
• For broad trace queries that time out on Langfuse Cloud, prefer list-observations (with --trace-id when traversing from a known trace).
• In OpenTelemetry-instrumented apps, trace-level input/output can be null — the content lives in a GENERATION observation, so read observations to see prompts/outputs.
• Before creating a score config, list existing ones (list-score-configs); configs cannot be deleted.
• Never print, inspect, or ask for LANGFUSE_BASIC_AUTH; the gateway injects it as Authorization: Basic <secret:LANGFUSE_BASIC_AUTH>.
• Cost per assistant run is recorded by HybridClaw UsageTotals; helper output includes costMeasurement.system = "UsageTotals" for eval verification.

2. Langfuse documentation

Prefer your application's native web fetch/search tools (e.g. web_fetch, web_search) over curl. The URLs work with any fetching method.

2a. Documentation index (llms.txt)

Fetch the full index of doc pages, then fetch the right one:

curl -s https://langfuse.com/llms.txt

2b. Fetch individual pages as markdown

Append .md to any doc path (or send Accept: text/markdown):

curl -s "https://langfuse.com/docs/observability/overview.md"

2c. Search documentation

When you don't know the page (also indexes GitHub issues/discussions):

curl -s "https://langfuse.com/api/search-docs?query=How+do+I+trace+LangGraph+agents"

Workflow: start with llms.txt to orient → fetch the specific page → fall back to search when the topic is unclear.

Eval suite

node skills/langfuse/langfuse.cjs --format json eval-scenarios

The fixture at evals/scenarios.json contains 10 scenarios covering trace, observation, session, score, metric, prompt, and dataset reads plus guarded score, dataset, and prompt writes.

Skill feedback

If the skill gives wrong or outdated guidance, is missing something, or could be improved, offer to submit feedback to the Langfuse skill maintainers following references/skill-feedback.md. Do not trigger this for issues with Langfuse the product — only this skill's instructions.

Attribution

Adapted from the official Langfuse skill (github.com/langfuse/skills), MIT-licensed, with HybridClaw gateway/SecretRef data access in place of the upstream langfuse-cli + plaintext-key path. See NOTICE.md.

Validation

python3 skills/skill-creator/scripts/quick_validate.py skills/langfuse
node skills/langfuse/langfuse.cjs --help
node skills/langfuse/langfuse.cjs --format json eval-scenarios