incident-response

incident-response is a skill for Claude Code from sigistry/marketplace. It costs 78 tokens per session (709 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for handling software incidents such as outages and writing blameless postmortems, which explain what happened and how to prevent a repeat.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify incidents, write root-cause analyses, measure reliability impact, and structure postmortems.
Why use it?
It helps teams focus on system weaknesses and missing safeguards instead of blaming individuals, while recording impact, severity, causes, and follow-up work.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ci-incident-medic plugin — 4 skills, 5 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to classify incidents, write root-cause analyses, measure reliability impact, and structure postmortems.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ci-incident-medic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 5 commands, 3 agents.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 709 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 $0.00078 $0.00709
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00354
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00071

Measured 12d ago against content hash 7a59311b7edf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 12d 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.

plugins/ci-incident-medic/skills/incident-response/SKILL.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Incident Response and Blameless Postmortems

Purpose

A consistent, blameless methodology for writing incident postmortems and classifying severity, so writeups drive systemic fixes instead of finger-pointing. This is incident-management domain knowledge (structure, blameless framing, severity, metrics), applied uniformly every time.

The blameless principle

Analyze systems and processes, never individuals. People act rationally given the information and tools they had; if a human error caused harm, the real finding is the missing guardrail that let it. This is not about avoiding accountability, it's that blame suppresses the honest disclosure you need to actually fix the system.

Reframe every human-error statement:

Blameful (reject) Blameless (use)
"X pushed a bad config" "the change reached prod because no test covered this path"
"on-call was slow" "the alert didn't page; ack took N minutes"
"someone ran the wrong command" "the safe and destructive commands were indistinguishable"

Postmortem structure (standard sections)

  1. Summary: 2-3 sentences: what broke, blast radius, duration.
  2. Impact: users affected, duration, severity, SLO/error-budget burn.
  3. Timeline (UTC): detection → mitigation → resolution, each entry evidence-cited.
  4. Root Cause / Contributing Factors: multiple systemic factors, not one scapegoat.
  5. What went well / what went poorly: specific and honest.
  6. Action items: owner + due date + type (preventive / detective).
  7. Lessons learned: durable takeaways.

Timeline discipline

  • Normalize all timestamps to UTC; note any timezone assumption.
  • Mark the phase transitions explicitly: incident begin, detection, escalation, mitigation, resolution.
  • Cite a source for every entry (alert, log line, chat timestamp, deploy record). Never invent a time, mark gaps [unknown, needs follow-up].

Action item quality

Each item: maps to a contributing factor, has an owner (role/team) and a due date, and is classified:

  • Preventive: removes the failure mode (test, guardrail, config default).
  • Detective: catches it faster next time (alert, dashboard, probe). Avoid vague items ("be more careful"); every item must be verifiable as done.

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 12d ago First seen · 48 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 7a59311b7edf

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incident-response is a skill published in the GitHub repository sigistry/marketplace (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 709 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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