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incident-commander

Comprehensive incident response framework from detection through resolution and post-incident review. Battle-tested SRE/DevOps practices: severity classification, timeline reconstruction, structured post-incident analysis. Use when declaring an incident, coordinating multi-team response during an outage, leading a post-mortem, or setting up on-call practices for a new service.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body delivers genuinely useful incident-response specifics and executable script examples, but it underuses its own bundle by inlining reference content and padding with generic leadership advice. It would benefit most from moving duplicated material into its existing references and stating the incident lifecycle as an explicit sequence with validation checkpoints.

Suggestions

Replace the inlined severity matrix, communication templates, and runbook template with short summaries plus clearly signaled links to the existing bundle files (references/incident_severity_matrix.md, references/communication_templates.md, assets/runbook_template.md), cutting the body by roughly half.

Add an explicit top-level incident lifecycle workflow (detect -> classify -> command -> mitigate -> validate -> PIR) with validation checkpoints, rather than leaving the sequence implicit in section order.

Trim the 'Best Practices' and 'Integration with Existing Tools' sections to the few items Claude would not already know (e.g., keep the blameless-culture PIR rules, drop 'stay composed under pressure' and tool name lists).

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Conciseness

The ~465-line body is noticeably verbose: generic best-practice advice Claude already knows ('Stay composed under pressure', 'Use clear, jargon-free language'), a tool-name listing section, and full inline severity matrices, communication templates, and a runbook template that duplicate material already present in references/incident_severity_matrix.md, references/communication_templates.md, and assets/runbook_template.md. Not a 1 because the severity thresholds and timing requirements are genuinely skill-specific.

2 / 5

Actionability

Provides concrete, executable commands in Usage Examples ('echo ... | python scripts/incident_classifier.py', 'timeline_reconstructor.py --input assets/sample_timeline_events.json --detect-phases --gap-analysis') with specific thresholds and timers throughout, and all referenced paths exist in the bundle. Not a 5 because large middle sections (role description, stakeholder management, best practices) describe rather than instruct.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The incident lifecycle (classify -> respond -> reconstruct timeline -> PIR) is present but only implicit in section ordering; there is no explicit top-level sequenced workflow with validation checkpoints. Validation appears as advice ('Validate fixes before declaring resolution') rather than as a defined step, matching the 'steps listed but checkpoints missing or implicit' anchor.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The bundle is well structured (6 reference files, 3 scripts, 8 assets) and script paths are correct, but the body inlines content that lives in the references (severity matrix, communication templates, RCA material) and signals only one reference ('references/reference-information.md'), buried inside the runbook template. Content that should be separate is inline and references are not clearly signaled.

3 / 5

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Description

83%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description that clearly states both capability and trigger conditions using natural operational language. Its only weaknesses are a slightly generic opener and missing common trigger synonyms (SEV labels, downtime, status page).

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Specificity

Names the domain ('incident response framework from detection through resolution and post-incident review') and several concrete actions ('severity classification, timeline reconstruction, structured post-incident analysis'). Falls short of the 5 anchor because the opening 'Comprehensive incident response framework' is a generic claim and the concrete action list stops at three items.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both questions: what ('Battle-tested SRE/DevOps practices: severity classification, timeline reconstruction, structured post-incident analysis') and when ('Use when declaring an incident, coordinating multi-team response during an outage, leading a post-mortem, or setting up on-call practices for a new service') with concrete trigger phrases. Matches the anchor-5 example pattern directly.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural phrases users would actually say: 'declaring an incident', 'during an outage', 'leading a post-mortem', 'setting up on-call practices'. Not a 5 because common variations like 'SEV'/'sev1', 'downtime', 'service disruption', and 'status page' are missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

A mostly distinct SRE/DevOps availability niche ('outage', 'post-mortem', 'on-call') with minor overlap risk against a security-oriented 'incident-response' skill; the body disambiguates this, but the description alone does not, so it does not reach the clear-niche 5 anchor.

4 / 5

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository

alirezarezvani/claude-skills

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engineering-team/skills/incident-commander/SKILL.md

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