How does this skill help with SEV-1 incidents?

It provides immediate action steps, escalation paths, and communication templates to minimize Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) during critical outages.

Does this replace tools like PagerDuty or Datadog?

No, it complements them by providing the procedural guidance and documentation framework needed to act effectively on the alerts those tools generate.

Is this skill useful for small startups?

Absolutely. It helps smaller teams establish professional, scalable SRE practices early, ensuring high service availability as they grow.

Can I customize the incident templates?

Yes, while the skill provides a robust industry-standard framework, you can adapt the templates and severity levels to match your specific team's requirements.

How does the skill handle post-mortem documentation?

The skill includes a comprehensive post-mortem template that guides you through timeline reconstruction, root cause analysis, and tracking long-term action items.

Runbooks - Incident Response

Name: Runbooks - Incident Response
Author: TheBushidoCollective

byTheBushidoCollective

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Deployment & DevOps

Standardizes production incident response through structured playbooks, severity frameworks, and automated post-mortem templates.

About

The Incident Response skill provides a comprehensive framework for managing production outages and on-call responsibilities directly within Claude Code. It equips engineering teams with structured procedures for incident detection, severity assessment (SEV-1 to SEV-4), and immediate mitigation strategies such as rollbacks, scaling, and service restarts. By guiding users through standardized communication protocols and detailed post-mortem documentation, it ensures that every system failure leads to actionable learnings and improved long-term reliability.

Key Features

On-call readiness checklists and standardized handoff procedures
39 GitHub stars
Step-by-step mitigation playbooks for rollbacks, scaling, and service restarts
Pre-built stakeholder communication and status update templates
Standardized severity level framework (SEV-1 to SEV-4) with clear response times
Comprehensive post-mortem framework including root cause analysis (RCA) and action items

Use Cases

Establishing a professional incident response plan for a new production service
Drafting detailed, data-driven post-mortem reports immediately after an outage
Standardizing on-call rotations and handoffs to ensure team continuity and readiness

About

Key Features

On-call readiness checklists and standardized handoff procedures
39 GitHub stars
Step-by-step mitigation playbooks for rollbacks, scaling, and service restarts
Pre-built stakeholder communication and status update templates
Standardized severity level framework (SEV-1 to SEV-4) with clear response times
Comprehensive post-mortem framework including root cause analysis (RCA) and action items

Use Cases

Establishing a professional incident response plan for a new production service
Drafting detailed, data-driven post-mortem reports immediately after an outage
Standardizing on-call rotations and handoffs to ensure team continuity and readiness