incident-response

incident-response is a skill for Claude Code from boparaiamrit/skills-by-amrit. It costs 35 tokens per session (2,192 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured process for handling serious production problems such as outages, security breaches, data corruption, or major slowdowns.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for triaging incidents, reducing their impact, applying tested fixes, checking recovery, and recording what happened afterward.
Why use it?
It helps teams restore service quickly, avoid untested changes, communicate clearly, and verify that the incident is actually over.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the skills-by-amrit plugin — 33 skills, 34 commands, 9 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for triaging incidents, reducing their impact, applying tested fixes, checking recovery, and recording what happened afterward.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/boparaiamrit/skills-by-amrit/incident-response
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 boparaiamrit/skills-by-amrit --skill incident-response
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/boparaiamrit/skills-by-amrit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills-by-amrit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 34 commands, 9 agents.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,192 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 $0.00035 $0.02192
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01096
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00438
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00219

Measured 9d ago against content hash c9ded7bcb450, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 9d 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-response/SKILL.md · 260 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 260 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Incident Response

Overview

When production is down, every second counts. Panic wastes time. Process saves it.

Core principle: Mitigate first, investigate second, fix permanently third.

The Iron Law

MITIGATE IMPACT BEFORE INVESTIGATING ROOT CAUSE.

During an incident, the priority is restoring service — not finding the bug.

When to Use

  • Production outage
  • Security breach or suspected breach
  • Data corruption
  • Severe performance degradation
  • Customer-facing errors spiking
  • Any P0/P1 incident

When NOT to Use

  • Non-production issues (use systematic-debugging)
  • Performance that's slow but not degrading (use performance-audit)
  • Security concerns that aren't active breaches (use security-audit)

Anti-Shortcut Rules

YOU CANNOT:
- Start investigating root cause before mitigating — restore service first
- Apply untested fixes to production — test the fix before deploying
- Make multiple changes simultaneously — you won't know what fixed it
- Skip communication — stakeholders need updates every 15 minutes during P0/P1
- Declare resolved without verification — health check must return 200, logs must be clean
- Skip post-mortem — incidents without post-mortems repeat
- Guess instead of checking logs — "I think" is not evidence during an incident
- Blame individuals — post-mortems are blameless or they're useless

Common Rationalizations (Don't Accept These)

Rationalization Reality
"Let me find the root cause first" Users are down NOW. Restore service first, investigate second.
"I'll update the team after I fix it" Silence during incidents causes panic. Communicate every 15 minutes.
"This fix will definitely work" "Definitely" isn't evidence. Test on staging first.
"We don't need a post-mortem for this one" Every incident teaches something. No exceptions.
"It was just a one-time thing" Every repeat incident was "just a one-time thing" the first time.
"The deploy looks fine" Did you check the deploy DIFF? Compare with the incident timeline.

Read the full file on GitHub · 260 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. 9d ago First seen · 260 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A c9ded7bcb450

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incident-response is a skill published in the GitHub repository boparaiamrit/skills-by-amrit (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 2,192 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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