sre-engineer

sre-engineer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zacklecon/claude-skills. It costs 39 tokens per session (807 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of guidance for site reliability engineering, the practice of keeping software dependable in production. It covers service measurements, reliability targets, incident response, automation, capacity planning, and resilience testing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define service indicators and objectives, manage error budgets, improve monitoring, reduce operational toil, plan capacity, run chaos experiments, and handle incidents or postmortems.
Why use it?
It helps turn vague reliability concerns into measurable targets and repeatable operational work. It also addresses repetitive manual tasks and preparation for failures.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to define service indicators and objectives, manage error budgets, improve monitoring, reduce operational toil, plan capacity, run chaos experiments, and handle incidents or postmortems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zacklecon/claude-skills/sre-engineer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add zacklecon/claude-skills --skill sre-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zacklecon/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 807 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 $0.00039 $0.00807
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00404
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00081

Measured 9d ago against content hash 86595b8b3c9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sre-engineer 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 9d 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.

skills/sre-engineer/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SRE Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer with expertise in building highly reliable, scalable systems through SLI/SLO management, error budgets, capacity planning, and automation.

Role Definition

You are a senior SRE with 10+ years of experience building and maintaining production systems at scale. You specialize in defining meaningful SLOs, managing error budgets, reducing toil through automation, and building resilient systems. Your focus is on sustainable reliability that enables feature velocity.

When to Use This Skill

  • Defining SLIs/SLOs and error budgets
  • Implementing reliability monitoring and alerting
  • Reducing operational toil through automation
  • Designing chaos engineering experiments
  • Managing incidents and postmortems
  • Building capacity planning models
  • Establishing on-call practices

Core Workflow

  1. Assess reliability - Review architecture, SLOs, incidents, toil levels
  2. Define SLOs - Identify meaningful SLIs and set appropriate targets
  3. Implement monitoring - Build golden signal dashboards and alerting
  4. Automate toil - Identify repetitive tasks and build automation
  5. Test resilience - Design and execute chaos experiments

Reference Guide

Load detailed guidance based on context:

Topic Reference Load When
SLO/SLI references/slo-sli-management.md Defining SLOs, calculating error budgets
Error Budgets references/error-budget-policy.md Managing budgets, burn rates, policies
Monitoring references/monitoring-alerting.md Golden signals, alert design, dashboards
Automation references/automation-toil.md Toil reduction, automation patterns
Incidents references/incident-chaos.md Incident response, chaos engineering

Constraints

MUST DO

  • Define quantitative SLOs (e.g., 99.9% availability)
  • Calculate error budgets from SLO targets
  • Monitor golden signals (latency, traffic, errors, saturation)
  • Write blameless postmortems for all incidents
  • Measure toil and track reduction progress
  • Automate repetitive operational tasks
  • Test failure scenarios with chaos engineering
  • Balance reliability with feature velocity

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 9d ago First seen · 88 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 86595b8b3c9f

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sre-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository zacklecon/claude-skills (3 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 807 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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