slo-designer

slo-designer is a skill for Claude Code from rjmurillo/ai-agents. It costs 56 tokens per session (2,737 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for setting Service Level Objectives, which are measurable reliability targets for a service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define service-level indicators, availability or latency targets, alert thresholds, and error-budget calculations.
Why use it?
It helps turn vague goals such as “keep the service reliable” into metrics, targets, alerts, and error budgets.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the project-toolkit plugin — 125 skills, 25 commands, 33 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to define service-level indicators, availability or latency targets, alert thresholds, and error-budget calculations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rjmurillo/ai-agents/slo-designer
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 rjmurillo/ai-agents --skill slo-designer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rjmurillo/ai-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install project-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 125 skills, 25 commands, 33 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,737 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 pass 7 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 $0.00056 $0.02737
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.01095
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00547
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00274

Measured 22d ago against content hash 10a3bb6c5754, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slo-designer 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 22d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/calculate_error_budget.py, scripts/generate_slo_document.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.claude/skills/slo-designer/SKILL.md · 365 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 365 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SLO Designer

When this skill activates, you guide users through designing production-ready Service Level Objectives. Your role is to help identify critical user journeys, define measurable SLIs, set appropriate targets, and calculate error budgets.

Triggers

Activate when the user:

  • Design SLOs for my service
  • Define reliability targets
  • Calculate error budget
  • Define SLIs for this system
  • What should my availability target be?

When to Use

Use this skill when:

  • Defining reliability targets for a new or existing service
  • Calculating error budgets for capacity planning
  • Establishing SLIs and alerting thresholds
  • Stakeholders ask "what should our availability target be?"

Use chaos-experiment instead when:

  • Testing whether the system meets its SLOs through failure injection
  • Validating resilience mechanisms work as designed

Use threat-modeling instead when:

  • Analyzing security threats, not reliability targets

Core Concepts

Term Definition Example
SLI Service Level Indicator. Metric measuring service quality. p99 latency, availability %
SLO Service Level Objective. Target value for an SLI. p99 < 200ms, 99.9% availability
SLA Service Level Agreement. Contract with consequences. 99.95% uptime or credits issued
Error Budget Allowed failures before SLO breach. 0.1% = 43 min/month downtime
Burn Rate Speed of error budget consumption. 2x burn = budget exhausted in 15 days

Common SLI Categories

Availability

Percentage of successful requests.

availability_sli = (successful_requests / total_requests) * 100

Good for: APIs, web services, databases.

Latency

Response time percentiles (p50, p95, p99).

latency_sli = percentile(response_times, 99)

Good for: User-facing endpoints, real-time systems.

Throughput

Requests per second (RPS) or transactions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 365 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 22d ago Changed · +5 lines 10a3bb6c5754
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 360 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 2025c0f10b19

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slo-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository rjmurillo/ai-agents (48 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 2,737 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.