Agent skill · operations · sickn33
incident-runbook-templates
Adaptable templates for incident response runbooks covering detection, triage, mitigation, resolution, and communication.
Why this skill is useful
Provides structured templates and specific commands for incident response that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
About 7k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 44,571 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Incident Runbook Templates Adaptable templates for incident response runbooks covering detection, triage, mitigation, resolution, and communication. Do not use this skill when The task is unrelated to incident runbook templates You need a different domain or tool outside this scope Instructions Clarify goals, constraints, and required inputs. Apply relevant best practices and validate outcomes. Provide actionable steps and verification. Use this skill when Creating incident response procedures Building service-specific runbooks Establishing escalation paths Documenting recovery procedures Responding to active incidents Onboarding on-call engineers Core Concepts 1. Incident Severity Levels Severity Impact Response Time Example ---------- -------- --------------- --------- SEV1 Complete outage, data loss 15 min Production down SEV2 Major degradation 30 min Critical feature broken SEV3 Minor impact 2 hours Non-critical bug SEV4 Minimal impact Next business day Cosmetic issue 2. Runbook Structure Runbook prerequisites Bind service, namespace, cluster context, database, owners, approved incident authority, evidence sources and rollback revision before adapting these templates. Thresholds, financial amounts, impact percentages and resolution messages are illustrative, never observed incident facts. Read-only triage comes first; mutations require an approved service-specific response. Verify actual smoke/rollback scripts in the target project before using them. No script is bundled or implied by this template. …
How to use it
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@skills sickn33/incident-runbook-templates--29b810