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building-incident-response-playbook

Designs and documents structured incident response playbooks that define step-by-step procedures for specific incident types aligned with NIST SP 800-61r3 and SANS PICERL frameworks. Covers playbook structure, decision trees, escalation criteria, RACI matrices, and integration with SOAR platforms. Activates for requests involving IR playbook creation, incident response procedure documentation, response runbook development, or SOAR playbook design.

56

Quality

63%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

No eval scenarios have been run

SecuritybySnyk

Advisory

Suggest reviewing before use

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npx tessl skill review --optimize ./skills/building-incident-response-playbook/SKILL.md
SKILL.md
Quality
Evals
Security

Quality

Discovery

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 clearly defines its scope, lists concrete capabilities, and provides explicit activation triggers. It uses appropriate third-person voice throughout and includes both framework references and practical deliverables. The description is well-structured, concise, and would allow Claude to confidently select this skill from a large pool without ambiguity.

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Specificity

Lists multiple specific concrete actions: 'designs and documents structured incident response playbooks', 'step-by-step procedures', 'playbook structure, decision trees, escalation criteria, RACI matrices, and integration with SOAR platforms'. Very detailed and actionable.

3 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers both 'what' (designs/documents playbooks with specific components like decision trees, RACI matrices, SOAR integration) and 'when' with explicit triggers ('Activates for requests involving IR playbook creation, incident response procedure documentation, response runbook development, or SOAR playbook design').

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Includes strong natural keywords users would say: 'IR playbook', 'incident response procedure', 'response runbook', 'SOAR playbook', 'NIST SP 800-61r3', 'SANS PICERL', 'escalation criteria', 'RACI matrices', 'decision trees'. Good coverage of domain-specific terms and variations.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Highly distinctive niche focused specifically on incident response playbook creation and documentation. The combination of NIST/SANS frameworks, SOAR integration, and playbook-specific terminology makes it very unlikely to conflict with other security or documentation skills.

3 / 3

Total

12

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12

Passed

Implementation

27%

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

This skill is comprehensive in coverage but severely over-engineered for a SKILL.md file, reading more like a training manual than concise agent instructions. Its strengths are the concrete decision tree, escalation criteria, and tool-specific containment examples, but these are buried in excessive definitional content and organizational guidance that Claude doesn't need. The lack of progressive disclosure and validation checkpoints significantly reduces its effectiveness as an actionable skill.

Suggestions

Cut the Key Concepts table, Tools & Systems descriptions, and any definitions Claude already knows (RACI, playbook vs runbook, etc.) to reduce token usage by ~40%.

Extract the full playbook template, phishing scenario, and output format into separate referenced files (e.g., TEMPLATE.md, EXAMPLES.md) and keep SKILL.md as a concise overview with navigation links.

Add explicit validation gates between workflow steps, such as 'Validate: Have a second analyst review the playbook for completeness against the template checklist before proceeding to SOAR integration.'

Make the SOAR integration step (Step 5) actionable by including at least one concrete example — e.g., a Cortex XSOAR playbook YAML snippet or Tines workflow definition — rather than abstract bullet points.

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Conciseness

The skill is extremely verbose at ~200+ lines, with significant content Claude already knows (definitions of RACI, playbook vs runbook, what SOAR platforms are, listing tool descriptions). The Key Concepts table, Tools & Systems section, and much of the structural template are padding that don't add actionable value beyond what Claude can infer.

1 / 3

Actionability

The skill provides concrete examples like the CrowdStrike containment steps and DNS blocking commands, plus a detailed output format template. However, much of the guidance remains at the procedural/organizational level rather than executable (e.g., 'Interview SOC analysts,' 'Conduct tabletop exercises'), and the SOAR integration step is entirely abstract with no platform-specific code or API examples.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The six-step workflow is clearly sequenced and the decision tree provides good branching logic. However, there are no explicit validation checkpoints or feedback loops — Step 6 mentions testing but doesn't define what constitutes a passing test, and there's no 'validate before proceeding' gate between steps like there should be between writing and deploying a playbook.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The entire skill is a monolithic wall of text with no references to supporting files. Content like the full playbook template, the phishing scenario walkthrough, the tools list, and the key concepts glossary could all be split into separate referenced documents. With no bundle files provided, everything is crammed into a single long document with poor information architecture.

1 / 3

Total

6

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12

Passed

Validation

90%

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

Validation10 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

Warning

Total

10

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11

Passed

Repository
mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills
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