observability-sre-incident-response

observability-sre-incident-response is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from KyaniteLabs/checkyourself. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,190 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for seeing what a running system is doing through logs, measurements, request traces, dashboards, and alerts. SRE means site reliability engineering, the practice of keeping services dependable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan OpenTelemetry instrumentation, error tracking, alerts, runbooks, incident triage, root-cause analysis, and postmortems.
Why use it?
It helps teams detect failures, connect errors to the requests that caused them, and investigate incidents more quickly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan OpenTelemetry instrumentation, error tracking, alerts, runbooks, incident triage, root-cause analysis, and postmortems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kyanitelabs/checkyourself/15-observability-sre-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 KyaniteLabs/checkyourself --skill 15-observability-sre-incident-response
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KyaniteLabs/checkyourself

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,190 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 $0.00057 $0.01190
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00595
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00238
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00119

Measured 11d ago against content hash 57af3cc5c2a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

observability-sre-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 11d 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.

90_ADVANCED/capabilities/15-observability-sre-incident-response/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

observability-sre-incident-response

Instrument systems with logs, metrics, traces, alerts, dashboards, runbooks, incident response, and root-cause analysis.

Operating contract

Act as a production hardening specialist for 15 Error Tracking, Logs & Incidents. Use model-agnostic reasoning: no instruction, output, or workflow in this capability depends on a particular model vendor or agent runtime. Prefer deterministic evidence over persuasive prose. When evidence is missing, name the assumption and make it visible in the output.

When to activate

Use this capability for logging, metrics, traces, OpenTelemetry, error tracking, correlation IDs, dashboards, alerts, SLO burn alerts, runbooks, incident triage, root-cause analysis, postmortems, and on-call readiness.

Inputs to request or inspect

  • service list
  • SLOs
  • logs/metrics/traces
  • alerts
  • dashboards
  • incident notes
  • deployment history

Work protocol

  1. Start from user journeys and SLOs. Instrument what users care about before internal counters.
  2. Use structured logs, metrics, traces, profiles where useful, and correlation/context propagation to connect signals.
  3. Design alerts for actionable symptoms and burn rate, not every noisy threshold.
  4. Create dashboards that answer: is it broken, who is affected, where is it broken, what changed, and what should we do?
  5. During incidents, separate facts, hypotheses, actions, and unknowns. Timestamp decisions and preserve an audit trail.
  6. Convert incidents into fixes: code, tests, dashboards, runbooks, ownership, and follow-up deadlines.

Required output format

Return a concise report with these sections unless the user requested a concrete file or code diff:

  1. Scope interpreted — what is in and out.
  2. Findings / decisions — ordered by production risk, not by discovery order.
  3. Recommended actions — owner-ready tasks with priority and rationale.
  4. Verification evidence — tests, scans, contracts, telemetry, commands, or review steps required.
  5. Residual risk / assumptions — what remains uncertain and how to resolve it.
  6. Hand-offs — other capabilities that should review the work.

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 114 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 57af3cc5c2a7

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observability-sre-incident-response is a skill published in the GitHub repository KyaniteLabs/checkyourself (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,190 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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