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Jim Bennett d79183139a Add Arize and Phoenix LLM observability skills (#1204)
* Add 9 Arize LLM observability skills

Add skills for Arize AI platform covering trace export, instrumentation,
datasets, experiments, evaluators, AI provider integrations, annotations,
prompt optimization, and deep linking to the Arize UI.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Add 3 Phoenix AI observability skills

Add skills for Phoenix (Arize open-source) covering CLI debugging,
LLM evaluation workflows, and OpenInference tracing/instrumentation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Ignoring intentional bad spelling

* Fix CI: remove .DS_Store from generated skills README and add codespell ignore

Remove .DS_Store artifact from winmd-api-search asset listing in generated
README.skills.md so it matches the CI Linux build output. Add queston to
codespell ignore list (intentional misspelling example in arize-dataset skill).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Add arize-ax and phoenix plugins

Bundle the 9 Arize skills into an arize-ax plugin and the 3 Phoenix
skills into a phoenix plugin for easier installation as single packages.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Fix skill folder structures to match source repos

Move arize supporting files from references/ to root level and rename
phoenix references/ to rules/ to exactly match the original source
repository folder structures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Fixing file locations

* Fixing readme

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Anti-Patterns

Common mistakes and fixes.

Anti-Pattern Problem Fix
Generic metrics Pre-built scores don't match your failures Build from error analysis
Vibe-based No quantification Measure with experiments
Ignoring humans Uncalibrated LLM judges Validate >80% TPR/TNR
Premature automation Evaluators for imagined problems Let observed failures drive
Saturation blindness 100% pass = no signal Keep capability evals at 50-80%
Similarity metrics BERTScore/ROUGE for generation Use for retrieval only
Model switching Hoping a model works better Error analysis first

Quantify Changes

baseline = run_experiment(dataset, old_prompt, evaluators)
improved = run_experiment(dataset, new_prompt, evaluators)
print(f"Improvement: {improved.pass_rate - baseline.pass_rate:+.1%}")

Don't Use Similarity for Generation

# BAD
score = bertscore(output, reference)

# GOOD
correct_facts = check_facts_against_source(output, context)

Error Analysis Before Model Change

# BAD
for model in models:
    results = test(model)

# GOOD
failures = analyze_errors(results)
# Then decide if model change is warranted