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incident-response from rampstackco/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

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skills/incident-response/SKILL.md
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Manage active production incidents through detection, triage, mitigation, communication, and resolution with structured roles and decision-making. Use this skill whenever the user has an active incident, a production issue, a service outage, a security incident, or needs to plan incident response procedures. Triggers on incident response, production incident, outage, service down, site down, P0, P1, severity, downtime, on-call, incident commander, status page, postmortem prep. Also triggers…

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# Incident Response

Manage active production incidents from detection to resolution. Stack-agnostic. Tool-agnostic.

This skill is for active incidents and incident process. For after-the-fact analysis, use `after-action-report`. For planned launches, use `launch-runbook`.

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## When to use

- An active incident is happening
- Building incident response procedures
- Defining severity levels
- Setting up on-call rotations
- Training a team on incident response

## When NOT to use

- Post-incident retrospective (use `after-action-report`)
- Planned launches (use `launch-runbook`)
- Pre-launch issue triage (use `qa-testing`)

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## Required inputs

- Awareness of the incident (alert, customer report, internal observation)
- Access to production systems and monitoring
- Roles and authorities clearly defined
- Communication channels operational

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## The framework: 5 phases

### 1. Detection

How the incident becomes known.

**Detection sources:**

- Automated alerts (monitoring, SLO violations, error rate spikes)
- Customer reports (support tickets, social media, status page subscribers)
- Internal observation (engineer notices something off)
…

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How to install

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Source

GitHub

rampstackco/claude-skills · 1,013 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-27 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_omqdemirz23pjbuh
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rampstackco/claude-skills/incident-response
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