design-on-call-rotation

design-on-call-rotation is a skill for Claude Code from pjt222/agent-almanac. It costs 86 tokens per session (2,817 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to planning an on-call schedule for engineers who respond to service incidents. It covers coverage, escalation, handoffs, and ways to distribute night and weekend work fairly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create an on-call plan, choose between weekly, split-shift, or follow-the-sun rotations, and define escalation rules based on team size, time zones, and service requirements.
Why use it?
It helps teams maintain incident response without overloading the same people or losing context during handoffs. It is useful when alert fatigue or burnout is becoming a problem.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the agent-almanac plugin — 122 skills, 76 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create an on-call plan, choose between weekly, split-shift, or follow-the-sun rotations, and define escalation rules based on team size, time zones, and service requirements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pjt222/agent-almanac/design-on-call-rotation
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add pjt222/agent-almanac --skill design-on-call-rotation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pjt222/agent-almanac

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-almanac, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 122 skills, 76 agents.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,817 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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: 1 finding, up to medium

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    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
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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 $0.00086 $0.02817
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.01409
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00563
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00282

Measured 8d ago against content hash f5960cad89e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-on-call-rotation scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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i18n/caveman-lite/skills/design-on-call-rotation/SKILL.md · 357 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 357 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design On-Call Rotation

Create a sustainable on-call schedule that balances coverage with engineer well-being.

When to Use

  • Setting up on-call for the first time
  • Scaling team from 2-3 to 5+ engineers
  • Addressing on-call burnout or alert fatigue
  • Improving incident response times
  • After post-mortem identifies handoff issues

Inputs

  • Required: Team size and time zones
  • Required: Service SLA requirements (response time, coverage hours)
  • Optional: Historical incident volume and timing
  • Optional: Budget for on-call compensation
  • Optional: Existing on-call tool (PagerDuty, Opsgenie)

Procedure

Step 1: Define Rotation Schedule

Choose rotation length based on team size:

## Rotation Models

### Weekly Rotation (5+ person team)
- **Length**: 7 days (Monday 09:00 to Monday 09:00)
- **Pros**: Predictable, easy to plan around
- **Cons**: Whole week disrupted if alerts are frequent

### 12-Hour Split (3-4 person team)
- **Day shift**: 08:00-20:00 local time
- **Night shift**: 20:00-08:00 local time
- **Pros**: Shared burden, night coverage paid differently
- **Cons**: More handoffs, coordination needed

### Follow-the-Sun (Global team)
- **APAC**: 00:00-08:00 UTC
- **EMEA**: 08:00-16:00 UTC
- **Americas**: 16:00-00:00 UTC
- **Pros**: No night shifts, timezone-aligned
- **Cons**: Requires distributed team

### Two-Tier (Senior/Junior split)
- **Primary**: Junior engineers (first responder)
- **Secondary**: Senior engineers (escalation)
- **Pros**: Training opportunity, lighter senior load
- **Cons**: Risk of junior burnout

Example schedule for 5-person team:

Week 1: Alice (Primary), Bob (Secondary)
Week 2: Charlie (Primary), Diana (Secondary)
Week 3: Eve (Primary), Alice (Secondary)
Week 4: Bob (Primary), Charlie (Secondary)
Week 5: Diana (Primary), Eve (Secondary)

Got: Schedule that rotates fairly and provides 24/7 coverage.

If fail: If coverage gaps exist, add more engineers or reduce SLA to business hours only.

Read the full file on GitHub · 357 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. 8d ago First seen · 357 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A f5960cad89e8

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design-on-call-rotation is a skill published in the GitHub repository pjt222/agent-almanac (32 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 2,817 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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