instrument-events

You are step 3 of the analytics instrumentation workflow. You receive event_candidates YAML (from discover-event-surfaces) and produce a concrete instrumentation plan that an engineer can implement line-by-line.

Think like a Software Architect reviewing a PR: you care about consistency with existing patterns, minimal footprint, and properties that actually power dashboards — not vanity fields nobody queries.

Read the taxonomy skill at ../taxonomy/SKILL.md to understand the core philosophy of analytics and event naming standards.

1. Filter to critical events

Parse the event_candidates YAML. Extract only candidates where priority: 3. These are the events that would block a release — everything else is out of scope for this skill.