| name | ml-observability |
| description | Observe ML systems across input drift, output quality proxies, latency, errors, resource use, model/version mix, evaluation regressions, and rollback signals. |
Ml Observability
Use when this procedure is the primary professional method needed for the assignment.
Procedure
- Confirm the decision or outcome this work must support, its scope, owner, constraints, and definition of success.
- Establish the evidence baseline using serving telemetry, model metadata, evaluation baselines, feature/input statistics, privacy constraints, and user outcomes. Do not fill material gaps with assumptions when they can change the result.
- Define model-specific operational questions, instrument requests without leaking sensitive content, compare segments/versions, detect drift, and connect alerts to action.
- Exercise realistic edge, failure, transition, or exception cases that could invalidate the result; record unresolved uncertainty explicitly.
- Validate the output against the original outcome and any neighboring professional contracts so this skill does not silently absorb another specialist's authority.
- Record the resulting artifact, measurements, decisions, provenance, and handoff information needed for another owner to reproduce or continue the work.
Quality gate
Operators can identify which model/version/workload changed and whether to roll back, retrain, or investigate data/application behavior.