Incident Response

Incident Response is a skill for Claude Code from cyperx84/claude-code-plugin-examples. It costs 20 tokens per session (3,180 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A step-by-step guide for handling production incidents, meaning serious problems affecting a live service. It covers detection, response, communication, finding the underlying cause, and reviewing what happened afterward.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare incident runbooks, coordinate an active response, investigate causes, and write post-incident reviews.
Why use it?
It gives a team a shared process during outages, performance problems, or suspected security incidents.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the devops-plugin plugin — 2 skills, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare incident runbooks, coordinate an active response, investigate causes, and write post-incident reviews.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cyperx84/claude-code-plugin-examples/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 cyperx84/claude-code-plugin-examples --skill incident-response
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cyperx84/claude-code-plugin-examples

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install devops-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 2 MCP servers.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,180 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 $0.00020 $0.03180
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.01272
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00636
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00318

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 93c3b06f0b86, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2mo 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.

examples/03-advanced/devops-plugin/skills/incident-response/SKILL.md · 593 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 593 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Incident Response

Purpose

Effective incident response through:

  • Rapid incident detection
  • Structured response process
  • Clear communication
  • Root cause analysis
  • Prevention strategies

When to Use

Invoke this skill when:

  • Production outage occurs
  • Performance degradation detected
  • Security incident suspected
  • Preparing incident runbooks
  • Conducting post-mortems

Incident Response Framework

Incident Severity Levels

SEV 1 (Critical):
- Complete service outage
- Data loss/corruption
- Security breach
- Revenue impact: High

Response Time: Immediate
Team: Full on-call rotation

SEV 2 (High):
- Partial service degradation
- Major feature broken
- Affecting multiple customers
- Revenue impact: Medium

Response Time: <15 minutes
Team: Primary on-call + specialist

SEV 3 (Medium):
- Minor feature issue
- Affecting some users
- Workaround available
- Revenue impact: Low

Response Time: <1 hour
Team: Primary on-call

SEV 4 (Low):
- Cosmetic issues
- Single user affected
- No revenue impact

Response Time: Next business day
Team: During business hours

Incident Response Process

1. Detection (Minutes 0-5)

How Incidents Are Detected:

- Automated alerts (monitoring)
- User reports (support tickets)
- Social media mentions
- Team members noticing issues
- Deployment gone wrong

Initial Assessment:

interface Incident {
  severity: 'SEV1' | 'SEV2' | 'SEV3' | 'SEV4';
  description: string;
  affectedSystems: string[];
  userImpact: string;
  startTime: Date;
}

function assessIncident(alert: Alert): Incident {
  // Determine severity
  const severity = calculateSeverity({
    usersAffected: alert.affectedUsers,
    systemsDown: alert.failingSystems,
    revenueImpact: alert.estimatedRevenueLoss,
  });

  return {
    severity,
    description: alert.message,
    affectedSystems: alert.systems,
    userImpact: estimateUserImpact(alert),
    startTime: new Date(),
  };
}

2. Response (Minutes 5-10)

Read the full file on GitHub · 593 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. 2mo ago First seen · 593 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 93c3b06f0b86

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Incident Response is a skill published in the GitHub repository cyperx84/claude-code-plugin-examples (2 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 3,180 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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