Confidential Observe
Beta OpenTelemetry observability for CDE projects — install via skill, ingest traces/logs/metrics, and review them without leaving the IDE.
Confidential Observe is a beta sidebar section in CDE's Projects view that gives a project its own OpenTelemetry stack: traces, logs, and metrics; without leaving the IDE. Setup is agent-driven: an Origin Agent skill instruments your code and opens a PR, rather than you wiring up an SDK by hand.
Confidential Observe is labeled BETA in the Projects sidebar.
Set up observability for a project
Open Confidential Observe → Overview for a project that has not been instrumented yet. CDE shows a setup task, Configure Observability Stack, with a prompt to run in your agent.
Copy the prompt
The Run in your agent card contains:
Run npx skills add oxyz-official/skills --all and use the skills to install Orgn Observe in this projectCDE attaches a write-only API key to the prompt automatically, you don't paste one in yourself.
Paste it into an agent
Paste the prompt into Origin Agent, Claude, Cursor, or whichever coding agent you're already using for the project.
Let the agent instrument the code
The agent installs the Orgn Observe skill, instruments every service with OpenTelemetry — traces, logs, and metrics — in a single run, and opens a pull request.
Start listening
Once the PR is merged, click Agent is done, start listening in the Overview panel. Confidential Observe polls for incoming telemetry every 5 seconds and shows Listening for telemetry until the first trace, log, or metric arrives, the screen switches over automatically once events come in.
Ingest key and endpoint
The API key attached to the setup prompt is write-only, it ingests events and cannot be used to read them back. Instrumented services send OTLP data to:
https://intake.observe.orgn.comSidebar sections
Once telemetry is flowing, Confidential Observe exposes:
| Section | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Overview | Setup status and ingest health for the project |
| Issues | Errors and exceptions surfaced from ingested telemetry |
| Alerts | Alerting on telemetry conditions |
| Explore | Ad hoc query over traces, logs, and metrics |
| Dashboards | Saved views over project telemetry |
| Settings | Project-level Observe configuration |
Next steps
- Agents: how CDE attaches skills to agent requests
- Cloud worktrees: where instrumented code runs
- Origin Agent: running the setup prompt in-IDE