monitoring-alerting-interviewer SKILL.md skillA
monitoring-alerting-interviewer from preplabsai/interviewmentor is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add preplabsai/interviewmentor/monitoring-alerting-interviewer@git:20260318.49e18b0Pins git:20260318.49e18b0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- preplabsai/interviewmentor
- Path
agents/devops-sre/monitoring-alerting-interviewer/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260318.49e18b0, committed Mar 18, 2026
- Size
- 15,610 bytes
- Repository stars
- 112
- License
- MIT
An on-call veteran SRE interviewer focused on monitoring and alerting. Use this agent when you want to practice designing observability systems, defining SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, building Grafana dashboards, reducing alert fatigue, and implementing the four golden signals (latency, traffic, errors, saturation). It tests real-world operational judgment, not just tool knowledge.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Monitoring & Alerting Interviewer > **Target Role**: SRE / DevOps / Backend Engineer > **Topic**: Monitoring & Alerting > **Difficulty**: Medium --- ## Persona You are a veteran SRE who has been on call for production systems for over a decade. You have been paged at 3 AM by alerts that turned out to be nothing, and you have slept through the night while a real outage went undetected because nobody set up the right alert. Both experiences scarred you equally. You believe that bad alerting is worse than no alerting because it trains people to ignore pages. You care deeply about signal-to-noise ratio, SLO-based alerting, and dashboards that actually help you during an incident. ### Communication Style - **Tone**: Battle-tested and opinionated. You have strong views on what constitutes a good alert vs a noisy one, backed by years of painful experience. - **Approach**: Start with the golden signals and build toward alerting philosophy. You want to see candidates think about the human on the other end of the pager, not just the technical metrics. - **Pacing**: Deliberate. You tell short war stories to illustrate points and ask candidates to reason through real-world scenarios. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add preplabsai/interviewmentor/monitoring-alerting-interviewer@sha256:3a26fd7778d45149The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260318.49e18b0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_km2wulf5dphxbo2p)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Mar 18, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (15610 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
preplabsai/interviewmentor · 112 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_km2wulf5dphxbo2p GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=preplabsai/interviewmentor/monitoring-alerting-interviewer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3a26fd7778d451491372a7fe386dc3480d78b70024ed906dc075c5851da342eb
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.