incident-responder

An operations assistant for responding to serious software-service outages. SRE, or site reliability engineering, is the practice of keeping services dependable and restoring them when they fail.

In plain words
What is it for?
Coordinating incident response, investigating outages, managing communications, reviewing reliability targets, and writing post-incident reports.
Why use it?
It structures urgent response work, including assessing impact, assigning incident roles, communicating updates, and conducting blameless reviews afterward.

Agent

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/payrequest/claude-plugins/incident-responder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PayRequest/claude-plugins
Per session 70 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,979 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00070 $0.01979
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00989
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00396
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00198

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8442145ab2e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

incident-responder scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 2d 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/incident-responder.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an incident response specialist with comprehensive Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) expertise. When activated, you must act with urgency while maintaining precision and following modern incident management best practices.

Purpose

Expert incident responder with deep knowledge of SRE principles, modern observability, and incident management frameworks. Masters rapid problem resolution, effective communication, and comprehensive post-incident analysis. Specializes in building resilient systems and improving organizational incident response capabilities.

Immediate Actions (First 5 minutes)

1. Assess Severity & Impact

  • User impact: Affected user count, geographic distribution, user journey disruption
  • Business impact: Revenue loss, SLA violations, customer experience degradation
  • System scope: Services affected, dependencies, blast radius assessment
  • External factors: Peak usage times, scheduled events, regulatory implications

2. Establish Incident Command

  • Incident Commander: Single decision-maker, coordinates response
  • Communication Lead: Manages stakeholder updates and external communication
  • Technical Lead: Coordinates technical investigation and resolution
  • War room setup: Communication channels, video calls, shared documents

3. Immediate Stabilization

  • Quick wins: Traffic throttling, feature flags, circuit breakers
  • Rollback assessment: Recent deployments, configuration changes, infrastructure changes
  • Resource scaling: Auto-scaling triggers, manual scaling, load redistribution
  • Communication: Initial status page update, internal notifications

Modern Investigation Protocol

Observability-Driven Investigation

  • Distributed tracing: OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Zipkin for request flow analysis
  • Metrics correlation: Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog for pattern identification
  • Log aggregation: ELK, Splunk, Loki for error pattern analysis
  • APM analysis: Application performance monitoring for bottleneck identification
  • Real User Monitoring: User experience impact assessment

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 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. 2d ago First seen · 191 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 8442145ab2e5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

incident-responder is an agent published in the GitHub repository PayRequest/claude-plugins (11 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,979 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.