incident-response

incident-response is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sawrus/agent-guides. It costs 0 tokens per session (367 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of step-by-step instructions for handling production incidents, such as outages or major service problems, and documenting them afterward.

In plain words
What is it for?
Responding to alerts, classifying severity, rolling back deployments, checking logs and database connections, and writing postmortems.
Why use it?
It gives responders a shared order for assessing impact, communicating, reducing damage, restoring service, and learning from the incident.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Responding to alerts, classifying severity, rolling back deployments, checking logs and database connections, and writing postmortems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sawrus/agent-guides/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 sawrus/agent-guides --skill incident-response
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sawrus/agent-guides

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 367 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 $0.00000 $0.00367
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00183
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00037

Measured 6d ago against content hash d579a16a1c21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 6d 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.

areas/software/platform/skills/incident-response/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Skill: Incident Response Runbooks

When to load

When responding to a production alert, diagnosing an outage, or writing a postmortem.

Severity Classification

Severity Definition Response Time
P0 Complete outage, data loss Immediate
P1 Significant degradation, key feature broken 15 min
P2 Minor degradation, workaround exists 1 hour
P3 Non-user-facing Next business day

P0 Response Playbook

T+0:  ACKNOWLEDGE — "I'm on this"
T+5:  SCOPE — What's broken? Who's affected? Since when?
T+10: COMMUNICATE — Post status page update; notify stakeholders
T+15: MITIGATE — Rollback > fix. Prefer reversible actions.
       Order: rollback deploy → feature flag off → scale up → redirect traffic
T+30: STABILIZE — Confirm metrics returning to normal
T+60: DOCUMENT — Write preliminary postmortem
T+24h: POSTMORTEM — Full 5-whys analysis, action items

Common Runbooks

# High error rate: check recent deploys
kubectl rollout history deployment/api
kubectl logs -l app=api --since=10m | grep ERROR | tail -50
kubectl rollout undo deployment/api  # If recent deploy

# DB connection exhaustion
psql -c "SELECT count(*), state FROM pg_stat_activity GROUP BY state;"
psql -c "SELECT pg_terminate_backend(pid) FROM pg_stat_activity
         WHERE state = 'idle' AND age(clock_timestamp(), state_change) > interval '10 minutes';"
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. 6d ago First seen · 42 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d579a16a1c21

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incident-response is a skill published in the GitHub repository sawrus/agent-guides (17 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 367 tokens. 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.

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