observability-sre-triage

observability-sre-triage is a skill for Claude Code from elastic/agent-skills. It costs 140 tokens per session (6,447 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A service-triage guide for deciding whether a software service is healthy, degraded, or failing. It reads service objectives, alerts, response time, traffic, errors, dependencies, infrastructure capacity, and logs to support the verdict.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during incidents to check service health, investigate alerts and anomalies, assess dependencies and saturation, and produce a concise failure explanation.
Why use it?
It helps narrow an incident from a broad symptom to the evidence that explains it. It also prevents confusing service-level symptoms with separate Kubernetes workload or node problems.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

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

Part of the elastic-observability plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it during incidents to check service health, investigate alerts and anomalies, assess dependencies and saturation, and produce a concise failure explanation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elastic/agent-skills/sre-triage
About the project

Elastic Agent Skills is a library of instruction packages that teach AI coding agents how to work with Elastic products, including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Elastic Observability, and Elastic Security. Developers use the skills for tasks such as API work, Kibana content management, observability, and security workflows. The catalogue entries are skills and plugins from this library.

elastic/agent-skills · 571 stars · on GitHub

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 elastic/agent-skills --skill sre-triage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elastic/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install elastic-observability, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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Per session 140 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,447 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 10 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 38
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 48
    Subtle instructions detected that may alter agent decision-making or introduce hidden biases.
    Fix: Review content for implicit steering or bias. Ensure instructions are explicit and align with the skill's stated purpose.
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 100
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 143
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 146
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 335
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 337
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 340
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 341
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 342
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
How audits are shown
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 $0.00140 $0.06447
Opus 5 $0.00070 $0.03223
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.01289
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00645

Measured 4d ago against content hash b1492db7e3e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

observability-sre-triage 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 4d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/observability/skills/sre-triage/SKILL.md · 355 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 355 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SRE Service Triage

Decide whether a service is healthy, degraded, or unhealthy, and say why. Triage is a hierarchy, not a checklist: SLOs and alerts define whether the service is failing its contract, trace-derived golden signals describe how it is failing, dependencies and infrastructure explain where the failure comes from, and logs supply the sentence you put in the incident channel. Work down the hierarchy until the evidence supports a verdict, then stop.

For authoring and tuning SLO definitions, burn-rate rules, and alert thresholds, use the observability-service-reliability skill. This skill only reads that state. For Kubernetes workload, node, or control-plane diagnosis — restart loops, OOM kill confirmation, node pressure, admission rejections, stuck rollouts — hand off to the observability-k8s-investigation skill. This skill checks whether a Kubernetes-hosted service is saturated; it does not diagnose why the pod or the node behind it is failing.

Environment Configuration

This skill executes Elasticsearch operations through the elastic CLI. If the elastic CLI is not installed, tell the user what it is needed for. Do not guess credentials, call the HTTP API directly, or attempt other workarounds.

This skill references operations in HTTP-shorthand form (e.g., GET /, GET /_cat/indices, GET /{index}/_mapping, GET /{index}/_settings/index.mode, POST /_query). The Operations table at the end of this document maps each shorthand to the equivalent elastic CLI command — always use the CLI rather than calling the HTTP API directly.

Analysis without cluster access

The CLI check above gates querying the cluster — it does not gate analysis. When the user has already supplied the evidence in their question (metric values, counts, status reasons, log lines, alert payloads, configuration), reason from that evidence and deliver the conclusion.

Read the full file on GitHub · 355 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 4d ago First seen · 355 lines · 140 tokens per session scan A b1492db7e3e4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

observability-sre-triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository elastic/agent-skills (571 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 140 tokens to every session and 6,447 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-09-05.

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