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slos-and-triggers

Decision heuristics for interpreting Honeycomb SLO compliance, budget burn rates, and trigger status — what the numbers mean and what action to take, including detecting misconfigured SLIs, deciding when to freeze deploys vs page on-call, and designing burn alert thresholds. Load this skill before calling get_slos or get_triggers. Trigger phrases: "check our SLOs", "are we meeting our SLOs", "which SLOs are healthy", "is the error budget OK", "are any alerts firing", "what's the burn rate", "set up an SLO", "create a trigger", "configure alerts", "set up burn alerts", "check trigger status", "starting on-call", "reliability picture", "should we freeze deploys", "is this SLO misconfigured", "are we within budget", "SLO is broken", "budget is negative", or any request about service level objectives, error budgets, burn rates, or alerting in Honeycomb.

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Quality

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Does it follow best practices?

Impact

100%

1.42x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No known issues

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Quality

Content

100%

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

This is an excellent skill file that efficiently delivers decision heuristics for SLO and trigger management in Honeycomb. It excels at providing concrete, actionable guidance (specific formulas, thresholds, and patterns) while maintaining tight conciseness. The progressive disclosure is well-structured with clear references to deeper materials, and the workflow includes appropriate validation checkpoints.

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Conciseness

The content is lean and efficient throughout. It avoids explaining what SLOs or triggers are conceptually and jumps straight into decision heuristics, design guidance, and interpretation rules. Every section earns its place with actionable tables, thresholds, and patterns rather than filler.

3 / 3

Actionability

Provides concrete SLI formulas (e.g., `IF(<qualifying-condition>, <success-condition>)`), specific threshold ranges for budget interpretation (>50%, 10-50%, <10%, negative), exact trigger patterns with COUNT-based examples, and clear actions to take at each level. The guidance is specific and directly usable.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Multi-step processes are clearly sequenced: SLO design flows from SLI definition → target setting → exhaustion alerts → burn rate alerts. Interpretation includes explicit decision points (healthy → caution → freeze → investigate). The 'check in with the user' step before creating SLOs serves as a validation checkpoint for a destructive/limited-resource operation.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The skill provides a clear overview with well-signaled one-level-deep references to three specific reference files (slo-design-guide.md, trigger-examples.md, alerting-strategy.md) and cross-references to related skills (query-patterns, production-investigation). Content is appropriately split between the overview and detailed materials.

3 / 3

Total

12

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12

Passed

Description

100%

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

This is an excellent skill description that thoroughly covers specific capabilities, provides extensive natural trigger phrases, clearly delineates both what the skill does and when to use it, and occupies a distinct niche around Honeycomb SLO/alerting decision-making. The description is comprehensive without being padded, and uses appropriate third-person voice throughout. The inclusion of the instruction to 'load this skill before calling get_slos or get_triggers' adds useful operational context.

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Specificity

Lists multiple specific concrete actions: interpreting SLO compliance, budget burn rates, trigger status, detecting misconfigured SLIs, deciding when to freeze deploys vs page on-call, and designing burn alert thresholds. These are highly specific and actionable capabilities.

3 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers both 'what' (decision heuristics for interpreting SLO compliance, burn rates, trigger status, detecting misconfigurations, deciding on deploy freezes, designing alert thresholds) and 'when' (explicit trigger phrases list plus a general catch-all clause, and a specific instruction to load before calling get_slos or get_triggers).

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Excellent coverage of natural trigger phrases including 'check our SLOs', 'is the error budget OK', 'what's the burn rate', 'should we freeze deploys', 'starting on-call', plus broader catch-all terms like 'service level objectives, error budgets, burn rates, or alerting in Honeycomb'. Covers many natural variations users would actually say.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Highly distinctive — scoped specifically to Honeycomb SLO interpretation, burn rate analysis, and trigger configuration. The domain (Honeycomb), the specific concepts (SLOs, error budgets, burn alerts), and the decision-making focus (freeze deploys vs page on-call) create a clear niche unlikely to conflict with other skills.

3 / 3

Total

12

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12

Passed

Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation11 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

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honeycombio/agent-skill
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