Pre-Commit Smoke Test

End-to-end verification that the observe-agent binary on the current branch can start, collect log telemetry, and deliver it to the Observe backend.

Prerequisites

• The observe-agent config at /etc/observe-agent/observe-agent.yaml must exist with valid token and observe_url fields.
• The config must have host_monitoring.logs.enabled: true with an include glob that covers /var/log/**/*.log.
• If no config file exists for you to refer to, inform the user, and halt execution immediately.
• The Observe MCP server (user-observe) must be connected for backend verification.

Step 1: Build or locate the binary

Check if a freshly built observe-agent binary exists in the project root: