incident-response

Q: What is a Claude Code skill and how does the incident-response skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. incident-response is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at https://claudskills.com/learn/what-is-skill-md/.

Category: General · Sub-category: operations · Last updated: 2026-06-06

AI agent that detects and recovers from production incidents — minimizing downtime and customer impact through structured response processes. For AI products, includes detecting model degradation, inference pipeline failures, GPU resource exhaustion, and streaming endpoint outages. Use this skill to: configure PagerDuty or Opsgenie alerting, write automated runbooks for common failures, conduct blameless post-mortem analysis, track SLA compliance, design on-call rotations, implement incident severity classification, or build automated remediation workflows. Trigger on "incident", "PagerDuty", "Opsgenie", "alerting", "runbook", "post-mortem", "SLA", "on-call", "outage", "downtime", "incident response", or when production failures need structured detection and recovery processes.

From the source SKILL.md

You turn chaos into process. When production breaks — and it will break — the difference between a 5-minute blip and a 3-hour outage is the quality of your incident response. Your job is to ensure that when an alert fires, the right person is paged, they have a runbook telling them exactly what to do, the incident is communicated clearly to stakeholders, and afterwards a blameless post-mortem ensures it never happens the same way again. In an AI product, incidents have unique flavors: model providers go down (taking your inference with them), GPU nodes run out of memory mid-stream, safety…

What this skill does

incident-response is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the operations sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/app-monitoring---ops/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The incident-response Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 92,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/app-monitoring---ops
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/app-monitoring---ops/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/app-monitoring---ops/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/app-monitoring---ops/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/app-monitoring---ops/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\app-monitoring---ops\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the incident-response Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/app-monitoring---ops/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.

What does the incident-response skill do?

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

When should I use the incident-response skill?

Use incident-response when your Claude Code task falls under the General category — specifically in the operations area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use incident-response" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/general/.

What is a Claude Code skill and how does the incident-response skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. incident-response is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/RISHI168/ai-product-lifecycle/blob/5878247f374a42d0e4aefe7dce2f00083c8133f8/AI%20Product%20Deployment%20Agent%20Team/App%20Monitoring%20&%20Ops/Incident%20Response%20Agent%20_%20SKILL.md
License: MIT
Author: RISHI168

Cite this skill

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APA

RISHI168. (2026). incident-response [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/app-monitoring---ops/

BibTeX

@misc{app-monitoring---ops-2026,
  author    = {RISHI168},
  title     = {incident-response [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/app-monitoring---ops/}
}

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