error-budget-policy SKILL.md skillA
error-budget-policy from skillmedev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add skillmedev/skills/error-budget-policy@git:20261005.bea4ea5Pins git:20261005.bea4ea5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmedev/skills
- Path
skills/error-budget-policy/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261005.bea4ea5, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 5, 2026
- Size
- 5,053 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Defines and applies an SLO error-budget policy that gates feature work versus reliability work based on remaining budget. Use when setting up SLOs or when high burn rate lacks a formal team response protocol.
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
# Error Budget Policy An error budget without a policy is a number nobody acts on. The policy converts budget state into team behavior automatically, without requiring a manager decision each time. ## Define the Budget Error budget = (1 - SLO target) x window duration. Example: 99.9% SLO over 30 days = 0.1% x 30 days x 24 hours = 43.2 minutes of allowed downtime. Track budget as a percentage remaining, not as raw minutes. 'Budget: 34% remaining' is actionable. 'Budget: 14.7 minutes remaining' is not. ## Four Policy States Define exactly four states and the automatic team behavior each one triggers. ### Green (budget above 50%) Feature work proceeds at full velocity. No reliability-only sprints required. On-call improvements are encouraged but not mandatory. Treat this state as the reward for good reliability work. ### Yellow (budget between 20% and 50%) Feature work continues but every sprint must include at least one reliability or observability ticket. The team reviews burn rate trend weekly. No new non-critical migrations or risky deploys without IC sign-off. ### Orange (budget between 0% and 20%) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add skillmedev/skills/error-budget-policy@sha256:df30697b08c0bdc4The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.bea4ea5, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 5, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 46 days.
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| git:20261005.bea4ea5 latest | 2026-10-05 | bea4ea5 | 5,053 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.a28c4ce | 2026-07-05 | a28c4ce | 5,012 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.acb5571 | 2026-07-05 | acb5571 | 5,014 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5053 bytes)
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- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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Source
skillmedev/skills · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_w5ykt37xtqn72fkz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=skillmedev/skills/error-budget-policy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/df30697b08c0bdc449bbe2e5329943125596609f1dd0b5b0f5faf016096cc65d
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