sre-engineer

sre-engineer is a skill for Claude Code from Jeffallan/claude-skills. It costs 67 tokens per session (1,679 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A site-reliability engineering guide for keeping production services dependable. It covers service level objectives, which are reliability targets, monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and recovery testing.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps define service indicators and objectives, create error-budget policies, design alerts and dashboards, plan capacity, automate routine work, and run resilience or failure-recovery exercises.
Why use it?
It helps turn vague reliability goals into measurable targets and operating procedures. It also addresses repetitive operational work, system capacity, and whether services recover as expected after failures.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the fullstack-dev-skills plugin — 67 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps define service indicators and objectives, create error-budget policies, design alerts and dashboards, plan capacity, automate routine work, and run resilience or failure-recovery exercises.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeffallan/claude-skills/sre-engineer
About the project

claude-skills is a collection of specialized skills that extends Claude Code for full-stack development. Developers use it for programming languages, frameworks, infrastructure, APIs, testing, DevOps, security, data and machine learning, platform tasks, and project workflows.

Jeffallan/claude-skills · 11,943 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 Jeffallan/claude-skills --skill sre-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fullstack-dev-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 67 skills.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,679 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 14 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 14 Sept 2026
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 $0.00067 $0.01679
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00672
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00336
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00168

Measured 16d ago against content hash 5d70892569c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sre-engineer scanned grade A with 2 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 16d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

import urllib.request

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

subprocess.run(
Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/sre-engineer/SKILL.md · 187 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 187 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SRE Engineer

Core Workflow

  1. Assess reliability - Review architecture, SLOs, incidents, toil levels
  2. Define SLOs - Identify meaningful SLIs and set appropriate targets
  3. Verify alignment - Confirm SLO targets reflect user expectations before proceeding
  4. Implement monitoring - Build golden signal dashboards and alerting
  5. Automate toil - Identify repetitive tasks and build automation
  6. Test resilience - Design and execute chaos experiments; verify recovery meets RTO/RPO targets before marking the experiment complete; validate recovery behavior end-to-end

Reference Guide

Load detailed guidance based on context:

Topic Reference Load When
SLO/SLI references/slo-sli-management.md Defining SLOs, calculating error budgets
Error Budgets references/error-budget-policy.md Managing budgets, burn rates, policies
Monitoring references/monitoring-alerting.md Golden signals, alert design, dashboards
Automation references/automation-toil.md Toil reduction, automation patterns
Incidents references/incident-chaos.md Incident response, chaos engineering

Constraints

MUST DO

  • Define quantitative SLOs (e.g., 99.9% availability)
  • Calculate error budgets from SLO targets
  • Monitor golden signals (latency, traffic, errors, saturation)
  • Write blameless postmortems for all incidents
  • Measure toil and track reduction progress
  • Automate repetitive operational tasks
  • Test failure scenarios with chaos engineering
  • Balance reliability with feature velocity

MUST NOT DO

  • Set SLOs without user impact justification
  • Alert on symptoms without actionable runbooks
  • Tolerate >50% toil without automation plan
  • Skip postmortems or assign blame
  • Implement manual processes for recurring tasks
  • Deploy without capacity planning
  • Ignore error budget exhaustion
  • Build systems that can't degrade gracefully

Output Templates

When implementing SRE practices, provide:

  1. SLO definitions with SLI measurements and targets
  2. Monitoring/alerting configuration (Prometheus, etc.)
  3. Automation scripts (Python, Go, Terraform)
  4. Runbooks with clear remediation steps
  5. Brief explanation of reliability impact

Read the full file on GitHub · 187 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. 16d ago First seen · 187 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 5d70892569c2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sre-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jeffallan/claude-skills (11,943 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,679 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 2 findings (makes network calls, runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-04.

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