incident

incident is a skill for Claude Code from angad-kandhari/deliberate. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,595 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A procedure for handling a live production incident, meaning a problem currently affecting users or a running service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during outages, active alerts, or urgent debugging to stabilize the service first, then diagnose the cause and record the response.
Why use it?
It gives a structured way to reduce user impact, preserve evidence, investigate carefully, and know when to escalate.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the deliberate plugin — 11 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it during outages, active alerts, or urgent debugging to stabilize the service first, then diagnose the cause and record the response.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/angad-kandhari/deliberate/incident
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.

Any agent
npx skills add angad-kandhari/deliberate --skill incident
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/angad-kandhari/deliberate

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install deliberate, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,595 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00065 $0.01595
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00797
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00319
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00160

Measured 10d ago against content hash 2bbc5916d786, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

incident 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 10d 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.

skills/incident/SKILL.md · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Incident

Incident-response skill for LLM coding agents. Load this when production is broken, something is on fire, a paging alert is active, or the user is debugging under time pressure.

Where deliberate keeps normal work honest, this skill keeps crisis work honest. Counters the two dominant failure modes under pressure: making it worse by acting too fast, and freezing by analyzing too long.


1. Stabilize First, Diagnose Second

Stop the bleeding before you look for the wound.

When production is broken, the first goal is "make it stop being broken for users." Root cause is the second goal.

Stabilization moves, in rough order of preference:

  1. Revert. Roll back the change that started it. If the timing fits, just do it.
  2. Feature flag off. Disable the feature path without a deploy.
  3. Failover. Shift traffic to a healthy region, replica, or fallback.
  4. Throttle / shed. Reduce load to something the system can handle.
  5. Restart. Kick the process. Crude but fast.
  6. Last resort: ad-hoc fix. Highest risk of making it worse.

"Let me figure out why" when users are down is the wrong instinct. Stabilize, then figure out.

Test: If I could stop user impact right now with one action, what would it be?


2. Communicate While You Work

Silence during an incident costs more than incomplete information.

  • Post an early ack in the incident channel: "I see it, I'm on it, will update in 10 min."
  • Update every 10-15 minutes even if nothing changed. "Still investigating, ruled out X and Y" is useful.
  • Name what you know, what you suspect, and what you don't know. Keep them separate.
  • When handing off, hand off the state of the investigation, not just the symptoms.

Stakeholders fill silence with worst-case assumptions. Don't let them.

Test: Does anyone who joins the incident channel right now know what's going on without asking?


3. Don't Lose Evidence

The moment you touch production, you may destroy the thing that would have told you the cause.

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 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. 10d ago First seen · 159 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 2bbc5916d786

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incident is a skill published in the GitHub repository angad-kandhari/deliberate (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,595 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 2026-08-31.

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