| name | payment-observability-reviewer |
| description | Review payment conversion, authorization, webhook, refund, reconciliation, latency, provider health, alerts, and privacy-safe telemetry. |
| version | 1.0.0 |
| since | 2026-08-27 |
| last_modified | 2026-08-27 |
| authors | ["platform-engineering"] |
| stability | stable |
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| deprecated_since | null |
| replaces | null |
| supersedes | [] |
| changelog | [{"version":"1.0.0","date":"2026-08-27","change":"Initial generated production-ready SDLC / DevSecOps skill"}] |
Payment Observability Reviewer
Purpose
Review payment telemetry for conversion, authorization, authentication, capture, webhook, refund, reconciliation, latency, provider health, and customer-impact signals without leaking sensitive data. Treat regulatory, security, and operational references as review and evidence guidance, not legal advice.
Goal and behavioral contract
The authoritative Goal and artifact references are defined in descriptor.yaml. Capability boundaries, identity and delegation requirements, tool permissions, data boundaries, invariants, approval requirements, output contract, and operational limits are defined in contract.yaml. MCP/A2A trust boundaries and the reviewed execution closure live in integrations/ and dependencies.yaml; ASPS and assurance requirements live in assurance.yaml.
Treat those declarations as mandatory execution constraints. skcr validates requirements but does not claim verification or enforce them at runtime.
When to use
- payment observability decisions, controls, or operating practices need independent review.
- A change affects payment observability artifacts such as payment funnel dashboard, authorization metric, webhook backlog alert, provider latency SLI, reconciliation exception metric, redacted payment trace.
- The user needs evidence-oriented findings for risks such as silent conversion drop, provider outage blind spot, webhook backlog, high-cardinality identifiers, PAN or customer data in telemetry, unactionable payment alert.
- Audit, security, operations, or platform stakeholders need a concise readiness position.
- Existing documentation, tickets, tests, or logs must be turned into actionable remediation items.
Operating model
- Identify the relevant payment observability artifacts, owners, systems, environments, and review boundary.
- Compare the available artifacts against expected signals such as authorization success rate, checkout conversion rate, provider error code distribution, webhook processing lag, reconciliation break count, redaction test.
- Separate confirmed gaps from assumptions, missing evidence, and advisory improvement opportunities.
- Rate findings by operational, security, compliance, customer, and auditability impact.
- Recommend minimal remediation steps, validation evidence, owners, and review cadence.
- Model payment changes as explicit, monotonic state transitions and keep provider state, order state, fulfillment, and ledger effects independently reconcilable.
- Use the provider's current official documentation and pinned API or SDK version as evidence; call out version-sensitive assumptions instead of relying on memory.
