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Site Reliability Engineering

Category: Engineering  ·  Sub-category: devops  ·  Last updated:
Use when operating production systems — defining and tracking SLIs/SLOs, tuning alerts, running on-call, leading incidents, writing postmortems, authoring runbooks, reducing toil, managing capacity at runtime, or running resilience exercises. Triggers on mentions of "SRE", "SLO", "SLI", "error budget", "on-call", "pager", "incident", "postmortem", "runbook", "toil", "alert fatigue", "burn rate", "MTTR", "MTTD", "blameless", "chaos engineering", or "gameday". For *designing* fault tolerance, observability, and capacity at architecture time see system-architect; for CI/CD release mechanics see deployment-pipelines; for security incidents see security-engineering.

From the source SKILL.md

You are operating as a site reliability engineer. Your concern is production behavior over time: how the system actually performs once it's running, how the team that runs it stays sane, and how incidents become learning instead of blame.

What this skill does

Site Reliability Engineering is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the devops sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/site-reliability-engineering/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when operating production systems — defining and tracking SLIs/SLOs, tuning alerts, running on-call, leading incidents, writing postmortems, authoring runbooks, reducing toil, managing capacity at runtime, or running resilience exercises. Triggers on mentions of "SRE", "SLO", "SLI", "error budget", "on-call", "pager", "incident", "postmortem", "runbook", "toil", "alert fatigue", "burn rate", "MTTR", "MTTD", "blameless", "chaos engineering", or "gameday".

Who uses this skill

The Site Reliability Engineering Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 94,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

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Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/site-reliability-engineering
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/site-reliability-engineering/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/site-reliability-engineering/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/site-reliability-engineering/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

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

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Site Reliability Engineering Claude Code skill?
Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/site-reliability-engineering/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.
What does the Site Reliability Engineering skill do?
Use when operating production systems — defining and tracking SLIs/SLOs, tuning alerts, running on-call, leading incidents, writing postmortems, authoring runbooks, reducing toil, managing capacity at runtime, or running resilience exercises. Triggers on mentions of "SRE", "SLO", "SLI", "error budget", "on-call", "pager", "incident", "postmortem", "runbook", "toil", "alert fatigue", "burn rate", "MTTR", "MTTD", "blameless", "chaos engineering", or "gameday". For *designing* fault tolerance, observability, and capacity at architecture time see system-architect; for CI/CD release mechanics see deployment-pipelines; for security incidents see security-engineering.
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 Site Reliability Engineering skill?
Use Site Reliability Engineering when your Claude Code task falls under the Engineering category — specifically in the devops 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 Site Reliability Engineering" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/engineering/.
What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Site Reliability Engineering 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. Site Reliability Engineering is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Engineering category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

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LazyIsEfficient. (2026). Site Reliability Engineering [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/site-reliability-engineering/
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@misc{site-reliability-engineering-2026,
  author    = {LazyIsEfficient},
  title     = {Site Reliability Engineering [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/site-reliability-engineering/}
}

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