incident-response

incident-response is a skill for Claude Code from spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills. It costs 20 tokens per session (889 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A process for handling production incidents, meaning problems affecting a live application. It covers assessing severity, reducing user impact, communicating, and writing a postmortem after the incident.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify incidents, check monitoring and recent deployments, roll back changes, disable features, add capacity, fail over, communicate updates, and document what happened.
Why use it?
It gives teams a shared response sequence for deciding urgency and restoring service before investigating the deeper cause.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to classify incidents, check monitoring and recent deployments, roll back changes, disable features, add capacity, fail over, communicate updates, and document what happened.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 889 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 $0.00020 $0.00889
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00445
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00089

Measured 12d ago against content hash c2b3f4d6f6be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

resources/incident-response/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Incident Response

Handle production incidents systematically.

Severity Levels

Level Definition Response Time Examples
SEV1 Service down, all users affected Immediate Database crash, DNS failure, auth broken
SEV2 Major feature broken, many users affected < 30 min Payments failing, search not working
SEV3 Minor feature broken, workaround exists < 4 hours Export button broken, slow dashboard
SEV4 Cosmetic or low-impact issue Next business day Typo in UI, minor styling bug

Incident Workflow

1. Detect & Triage (first 5 minutes)

  • Acknowledge the incident — "I'm looking into this"
  • Determine severity level
  • Check monitoring dashboards (error rates, latency, status page)
  • Check recent deployments: git log --oneline -10 — was anything deployed recently?

2. Mitigate (next 15-30 minutes)

The goal is to stop the bleeding, not find the root cause.

Quick mitigations:

  • Rollback: git revert <commit> && deploy — fastest option if a deploy caused it
  • Feature flag: Disable the broken feature
  • Scale up: Add more instances if it's a capacity issue
  • Failover: Switch to backup/secondary if primary is down
  • Block traffic: Rate-limit or block specific abusive traffic

3. Communicate

Internal:

  • Open an incident channel (#incident-2026-04-10)
  • Post status updates every 15-30 minutes
  • Assign roles: Incident Commander, Communicator, Engineers

External:

  • Update status page
  • Send email/notification to affected users if the outage is extended
  • Be honest: "We're experiencing issues with X. We've identified the cause and are working on a fix."

4. Resolve

  • Deploy the fix
  • Verify the fix works in production (check metrics, not just absence of errors)
  • Close the incident channel with a summary

5. Postmortem (within 48 hours)

Write a blameless postmortem:

# Incident: Payments failing for Stripe webhook
**Date:** 2026-04-10
**Duration:** 45 minutes (14:30 — 15:15 UTC)
**Severity:** SEV2
**Impact:** ~200 users unable to complete purchases

## Timeline
- 14:30 — Alert fires: payment success rate drops to 20%
- 14:35 — On-call engineer acknowledges, begins investigation
- 14:40 — Identified: Stripe webhook endpoint returning 500
- 14:45 — Root cause: migration added NOT NULL column without default
- 14:50 — Fix deployed: added default value to migration
- 15:00 — Payment success rate recovering
- 15:15 — Metrics back to normal, incident closed

## Root Cause
Database migration #47 added a `currency` column with NOT NULL 
but no DEFAULT value. Existing rows were fine (backfilled), but 
new webhook events failed because the insert didn't include `currency`.

## What Went Well
- Alert fired within 5 minutes of the issue starting
- Rollback was considered but the fix was faster

## What Went Wrong
- Migration wasn't tested with live webhook payloads
- No staging test for the webhook flow

## Action Items
- [ ] Add webhook integration test to CI (@alice, due 2026-04-17)
- [ ] Require DEFAULT for all new NOT NULL columns in migration review (@bob)
- [ ] Add runbook for payment failures (@charlie, due 2026-04-14)

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 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. 12d ago First seen · 104 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A c2b3f4d6f6be

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incident-response is a skill published in the GitHub repository spencerpauly/awesome-cursor-skills (772 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 889 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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