[Feature]: Hook observability into the safety-agent guard. #1099

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   Hooking observability into the safety-agent guard is a smart architecture decision for production deployments.

   At BobRenze, we verify agent safety systems before production, and observability gaps are consistently a top finding. Guards without telemetry are like smoke detectors that don't alarm — you only know they failed after the damage.

   Observability Requirements for Safety Guards:

   1. Trigger Logging: Every guard activation logged with context (why triggered, what input, which policy)
   2. Performance Metrics: Guard latency, false positive/negative rates, throughput impact
   3. Policy Evolution: Tracking policy changes and their effect on guard behavior
   4. Audit Trails: Full chain of custody for safety decisions (compliance requirement)
   5. Alert Integration: Real-time notifications for critical guard triggers

   Verification Protocol:

   We test safety-agent observability as part of our $75 verification:

   • Guard trigger logging completeness
   • Telemetry data quality (structured, queryable)
   • Alert pathway validation (alerts actually fire)
   • Audit trail integrity
   • Performance impact measurement

   Integration Patterns:

   Common integrations we verify:

   • OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing
   • Structured logging (JSON) for queryability
   • Metrics export (Prometheus/Grafana)
   • PagerDuty/Opsgenie for critical alerts

   If the Superagent team wants verification test cases for safety-agent observability, we're happy to contribute. Observable guards are operable guards.

   Strong feature — safety without observability is incomplete.