service-takeover

service-takeover is a skill for Claude Code from culiops/culiops-agent. It costs 188 tokens per session (7,745 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided handoff process for taking responsibility for an AWS service from another team. It creates a self-contained package with service details, workflow state, plans, profiles, questions, and readiness information.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps onboard a team, organize interviews and existing diagrams, collect service and runtime reports, record approvals, and assess takeover readiness.
Why use it?
It gives the receiving team a structured way to understand a service even when documentation and infrastructure files are missing. It separates the handoff process from the read-only investigations it may request.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the culiops plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps onboard a team, organize interviews and existing diagrams, collect service and runtime reports, record approvals, and assess takeover readiness.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/culiops/culiops-agent/service-takeover
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 culiops/culiops-agent --skill service-takeover
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/culiops/culiops-agent

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install culiops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 188 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,745 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 $0.00188 $0.07745
Opus 5 $0.00094 $0.03873
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.01549
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00775

Measured 8d ago against content hash fb9473cd6323, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

service-takeover 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.

skills/service-takeover/SKILL.md · 468 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 468 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Service Takeover

Guide an operator through the structured handoff of an AWS service from another team. Built for the worst-case takeover: no documentation, no IaC, only diagram images, and a deadline.

This skill orchestrates the operator, not other skills. When a step delegates to service-discovery or runtime-trace, the orchestrator prints the exact invocation the operator should run. The operator runs the sibling skill themselves (which preserves the sibling's own Iron Law, gate model, and IAM scope), then returns the artifact path to service-takeover, which snapshots it into the handoff package and continues.

The skill produces a self-contained handoff package at .culiops/service-takeover/<service>/:

  • README.md — handoff summary the receiving team reads first.
  • state.md — workflow state (which steps ran, when, gate sign-offs).
  • execution-plan.md — the Step 1.5 audit + plan + approval record.
  • service-catalog.md — snapshot of the service-discovery catalog.
  • runtime-profile.md — snapshot of the runtime-trace runtime profile.
  • interview-questionnaire.md — filled-in outgoing-team interview.
  • readiness-scorecard.md — evidence-backed Production Readiness Review scorecard.
  • open-questions.md — consolidated open questions across all artifacts.

The receiving team gets one directory they can read to be operational on day one.

References

Reference What it informs
Site Reliability Engineering (Google) — Ch. 32 "The Evolving SRE Engagement Model" The Production Readiness Review (PRR) pattern. Direct basis for Step 6 (readiness scorecard) and the 8-category structure (access, inventory, runtime, alerting, runbooks, deploy & rollback, dependencies, compliance).
Site Reliability Engineering — Ch. 6 "Monitoring Distributed Systems" The four golden signals (traffic, latency, errors, saturation). Cross-referenced when consuming runtime-trace's activity baselines into the readiness scorecard.
Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Feathers) "Characterization, not assumption." Justifies the "every readiness claim cites evidence" discipline. The skill never guesses at facts; it cites the artifact or marks the item unknown.
Seeking SRE (Blank-Edelman, ed.) — chapters on inheriting opaque systems Patterns for the outgoing-team interview (Step 5) — structured, async-friendly, knowledge-transfer-oriented.
The DevOps Handbook (Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis) — Part IV "The Technical Practices of Feedback" Operational ownership and the formal-handoff pattern. Justifies the readiness items around deploy paths, rollback procedures, and incident response.
Accelerate (Forsgren, Humble, Kim) The four DORA metrics (deploy frequency, lead time for changes, mean time to restore, change failure rate). Frames the readiness "Deploy & Rollback" category.
AWS Well-Architected Framework — Operational Excellence pillar (OPS-3 through OPS-7) The structured questions "How do you understand the health of your workload?" and "How do you mitigate deployment risks?" — direct sources for readiness items.
ITIL 4 — Service Transition practices The formal-handoff framework: knowledge management, configuration management, change enablement. Justifies the handoff-package structure (catalog + profile + interview + scorecard + open questions).
The Pragmatic Programmer (Hunt, Thomas) — "Tracer Bullets" chapter The thin-probe-first pattern. Justifies the information-audit gate (Step 1.5) — probe what we have, fire a thin action per gap, before committing to a full sibling-skill run.
Observability Engineering (Majors, Fong-Jones, Miranda) The high-cardinality / slice-retroactively framing. Carries through from runtime-trace.

Read the full file on GitHub · 468 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 468 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A fb9473cd6323

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service-takeover is a skill published in the GitHub repository culiops/culiops-agent (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 188 tokens to every session and 7,745 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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