Agent skill · software engineering · personamanagmentlayer
sre-expert
Expert-level site reliability engineering, SLOs, incident management, and operational excellence. Use when the user mentions reliability, monitoring, incident management, SLOs, or observability, or when the task involves SRE Fundamentals, Reliability Practices, SRE Principles, or On-Call.
Why this skill is useful
Includes executable Python scripts for SLO tracking and compliance calculations that provide specific operational insights.
What it needs
Requires numpy installed locally. About 5k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-03-30. 41 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Site Reliability Engineering Expert Expert guidance for SRE practices, reliability engineering, SLOs/SLIs, incident management, and operational excellence. Core Concepts SRE Fundamentals Service Level Objectives (SLOs) Service Level Indicators (SLIs) Error budgets Toil reduction Monitoring and alerting Capacity planning Reliability Practices Incident management Post-incident reviews (PIRs) On-call rotations Chaos engineering Disaster recovery Change management Automation Infrastructure as Code Configuration management Deployment automation Self-healing systems Runbook automation Automated remediation SLO/SLI Management Incident Management Monitoring and Alerting Chaos Engineering Best Practices SRE Principles Embrace risk management Set SLOs based on user experience Use error budgets for decision making Automate toil away Monitor the four golden signals Practice blameless post-mortems Gradual rollouts and canary deployments Incident Management Clear incident severity definitions Defined incident commander role Communicate proactively Document timeline during incident Conduct post-incident reviews Track action items to completion Share learnings across teams On-Call Reasonable on-call rotations Comprehensive runbooks Alert on symptoms, not causes Actionable alerts only Escalation policies Support on-call engineers Measure and reduce alert fatigue Anti-Patterns ❌ No SLOs defined ❌ Alerts without runbooks ❌ Blame culture for incidents ❌ No post-incident reviews ❌ 100% uptime expectations ❌ Toil not tracked or reduced ❌ Manual processes for common tasks Resources Google SRE Book: https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/ Site Reliability Engineering: https://sre.google/ SLO Workshop: https://github.com/google/slo-workshop Chaos Engineering: https://principlesofchaos.org/ Prometheus: https://prometheus.io/
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills personamanagmentlayer/sre-expert