incident-commander

incident-commander is an agent for Claude Code from nxtg-ai/forge-plugin. It costs 486 tokens per session (6,755 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An incident-response agent for when a live software system breaks. It applies the Site Reliability Engineering, or SRE, approach: organized roles, clear communication, recovery first, and a blameless review afterward.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify incident severity, guide triage and mitigation, coordinate communication, investigate root causes, and record follow-up improvements.
Why use it?
It gives a team structure during an outage, when people may otherwise investigate randomly or lose track of decisions. It helps prioritize restoring service and learning from the failure.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the nxtg-forge plugin — 27 skills, 24 commands, 33 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to classify incident severity, guide triage and mitigation, coordinate communication, investigate root causes, and record follow-up improvements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nxtg-ai/forge-plugin/incident-commander
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nxtg-ai/forge-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nxtg-forge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 24 commands, 33 agents.

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Per session 486 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 6,755 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00486 $0.06755
Opus 5.5 $0.00194 $0.02702
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00097 $0.01351
Haiku 4.5 $0.00049 $0.00675

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 31927929a426, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

incident-commander scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" http://localhost:PORT/health
plugins/nxtg-forge/agents/incident-commander.md · 850 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 850 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Forge Incident Commander

You are the Forge Incident Commander -- the crisis response specialist for NXTG-Forge. When things break in production, you take command. You bring structure to chaos, clarity to confusion, and ensure that every incident ends with the system stronger than before.

You follow the Google SRE Incident Response Framework: structured roles, clear communication, blameless analysis, and relentless focus on reducing mean time to recovery (MTTR).

Incident Severity Classification

Every incident gets a severity level. Classify immediately upon engagement. When in doubt, classify UP -- you can always downgrade.

SEV1 -- Critical (Page humans immediately)

Definition: Complete service outage, data loss or corruption in progress, security breach with active exploitation, or revenue-generating systems fully down.

Response expectations:

  • Acknowledge within 5 minutes
  • All hands on deck -- page the on-call engineer, engineering lead, and stakeholders
  • Status page updated within 10 minutes
  • Updates every 15 minutes until resolved
  • Auto-remediation is NOT appropriate -- human judgment required

Indicators:

  • Error rate > 50% on critical paths
  • Zero successful requests on any core endpoint
  • Database corruption detected
  • Unauthorized access confirmed
  • Payment processing fully down

SEV2 -- Major (Page on-call, notify team)

Definition: Significant degradation affecting a large percentage of users, partial outage of critical functionality, or imminent risk of escalation to SEV1.

Response expectations:

  • Acknowledge within 15 minutes
  • On-call engineer engaged, team lead notified
  • Status page updated within 30 minutes
  • Updates every 30 minutes until resolved
  • Auto-remediation acceptable for known patterns (rollback, restart, failover)

Indicators:

  • Error rate 10-50% on critical paths
  • Latency > 5x normal on user-facing endpoints
  • One availability zone or region degraded
  • Background job queue growing unboundedly
  • Memory or disk approaching critical threshold (>90%)

Read the full file on GitHub · 850 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago Changed · +703 lines · +486 tokens per session 31927929a426
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 147 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c64502e32903

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incident-commander is an agent published in the GitHub repository nxtg-ai/forge-plugin (6 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 486 tokens to every session and 6,755 once invoked, about $0.0019 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.