Triage Error Budget Burn

Triage Error Budget Burn is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bregman-arie/devops-sre-skills. It costs 25 tokens per session (399 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A procedure for investigating rapid consumption of an SLO error budget. An SLO is a target for service reliability, and its error budget is the amount of failure allowed while meeting that target.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when burn alerts fire or an SLO dashboard shows unusually fast budget consumption. It helps break the issue down by endpoint, region, customer group, and dependency.
Why use it?
It identifies whether the problem comes from errors, slow responses, outages, or missing monitoring data, then guides mitigation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when burn alerts fire or an SLO dashboard shows unusually fast budget consumption. It helps break the issue down by endpoint, region, customer group, and dependency.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bregman-arie/devops-sre-skills/triage-error-budget-burn
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add bregman-arie/devops-sre-skills --skill triage-error-budget-burn
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bregman-arie/devops-sre-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 399 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 $0.00025 $0.00399
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00199
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00040

Measured 12d ago against content hash ad528fdb0ee0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Triage Error Budget Burn 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 12d 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/observability/triage-error-budget-burn/SKILL.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

When to use

Use when burn alerts fire or SLO dashboards show accelerated error budget consumption.

Preconditions

  • The SLO definition and signals are known (good/bad events or latency threshold).

Procedure

  1. Confirm the SLO signal and the burn window.
  2. Identify whether burn is driven by errors, latency, or missing telemetry.
  3. Break down by endpoint, region, customer segment, and dependency.
  4. Correlate with deploys, config changes, and incidents.
  5. Choose the fastest mitigation that reduces burn (rollback, disable, scale, failover).

Decision points

  • Telemetry missing: fix instrumentation/pipeline to avoid false burn.
  • Dependency-induced burn: mitigate upstream (timeouts, circuit breaker, failover).
  • Deploy-correlated burn: rollback or feature flag off.

Verification

  • Burn rate returns to normal and stays stable.
  • Alert conditions clear.

Rollback / undo

  • Revert mitigations that cause new errors or correctness regressions.

Escalation

  • Escalate to dependency owners if they are the dominant contributor.
  • Escalate to service owners for code fixes.

Examples

Start by decomposing the SLO into error vs latency vs availability contributions.
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. 12d ago First seen · 66 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A ad528fdb0ee0

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Triage Error Budget Burn is a skill published in the GitHub repository bregman-arie/devops-sre-skills (22 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 399 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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