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- SKILL.md skill
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- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260728.fac4544, committed Jul 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 18, 2026
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- 3,536 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Operate an error budget so reliability decisions follow a written policy instead of an argument: burn-rate alerts, feature freezes, and a clear escalation path. Use when a service has an SLO and you need to decide, without relitigating each incident, when to stop shipping features and fix reliability.
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What the file says
# Error budget policy An error budget turns "how reliable is reliable enough" from a standing debate into arithmetic: the SLO defines the budget, and spending it triggers agreed consequences. The policy is Google SRE's mechanism for aligning the people who want to ship and the people who carry the pager. Without the written rule, every threshold becomes a negotiation at the worst possible moment. ## Method 1. **Derive the budget from the SLO, in minutes.** The budget is one minus the objective over a rolling window: a 99.9% availability SLO over 28 days allows about 43 minutes of unavailability. State it as a concrete quantity of bad events or downtime, because "we still have budget" only means something as a number. 2. **Alert on burn rate, not raw errors.** Configure multiwindow, multi-burn-rate alerts: page on a fast burn (14.4x, which spends 2% of a 30-day budget in an hour) confirmed over both a 1-hour and a 5-minute window, and open a ticket on a slow burn near 3x over a day. This catches the outage and the steady leak without paging on every blip. 3. **Write the policy before you need it.** The error budget policy is a …
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How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/error-budget-policy@sha256:e1339cf8adc286a9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.fac4544, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
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