incident-response

incident-response is a skill for Claude Code from ashtonian/llm-init. It costs 8 tokens per session (1,768 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured process for investigating and resolving incidents, meaning unexpected problems affecting a live software service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during outages or degraded features to inspect logs and health checks, identify affected customers, apply fixes or workarounds, and write a post-mortem.
Why use it?
It provides an ordered way to measure impact, determine severity, find the cause, restore service, and record what happened.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it during outages or degraded features to inspect logs and health checks, identify affected customers, apply fixes or workarounds, and write a post-mortem.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ashtonian/llm-init/incident-response
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ashtonian/llm-init --skill incident-response
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashtonian/llm-init

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 8 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,768 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 $0.00008 $0.01768
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00884
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00354
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00177

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3628082ea2b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

incident-response 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 8d 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.

templates/.claude/skills/incident-response/SKILL.md · 222 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 222 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Incident Response Skill

Structured workflow for investigating production incidents, identifying root causes, implementing fixes, and writing post-mortems. Speed matters -- follow the steps in order but don't over-analyze before acting.

Workflow

Step 1: Assess Impact

Immediately determine the scope and severity of the incident:

Question How to Answer
Which tenants are affected? Check error logs filtered by tenant_id, check monitoring dashboards
What functionality is broken? Check health endpoints, test critical paths, review error types
When did it start? Check deploy timestamps, metric anomaly detection, first error log
Is it getting worse? Check error rate trend over last 15 minutes
Is there a workaround? Assess if affected users can use alternative paths

Severity Classification:

Severity Criteria Response
SEV-1 Service down, data loss, security breach, all tenants affected All hands, continuous updates every 15 min
SEV-2 Major feature broken, significant tenant subset affected Dedicated team, updates every 30 min
SEV-3 Minor feature degraded, few tenants affected Next business day, update on resolution
SEV-4 Cosmetic issue, no functionality impact Backlog, fix in next sprint

Output: Impact assessment with severity, affected tenants/features, and timeline.

Step 2: Collect Evidence

Gather all available diagnostic data BEFORE making changes:

Logs:

# Recent error logs (adjust for your logging system)
# Filter by time window, error level, and affected service

Look for:

  • Error messages and stack traces
  • Request IDs for failing requests
  • Tenant IDs of affected users
  • Timestamps of first and most recent errors

Metrics:

  • Error rate (overall and per-endpoint)
  • Latency percentiles (p50, p95, p99)
  • Resource utilization (CPU, memory, connections)
  • Deployment markers (did a deploy happen before the incident?)

Read the full file on GitHub · 222 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. 8d ago First seen · 222 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 3628082ea2b4

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incident-response is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashtonian/llm-init (2 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 1,768 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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