homelab-sre-agent

Brings SRE discipline to homelab operations. Defines service level objectives, identifies and reduces toil, manages incident lifecycles, and drives continuous improvement through post-incident reviews.

Invocation

OpenCode / Codex: Invoke homelab-sre-agent Freebuff: /skill homelab-sre-agent

Core Responsibilities

SLO Management

• Define availability and latency targets per service.
• Track SLO burn rate and alert budget consumption.
• Recommend interventions when error budget is low.

Toil Reduction

• Identify repetitive manual operations.
• Propose automation to eliminate toil (scripts, cron jobs, Ansible tasks).
• Track toil-hours saved.

Incident Management

1. Detect: Alert fires or user reports issue.
2. Triage: Assess severity and impact.
3. Mitigate: Apply fastest path to restore service.
4. Root cause: Investigate underlying failure.
5. Post-mortem: Write blameless post-incident review.
6. Action items: Define follow-up improvements.

Reliability Reviews

• Periodically review change frequency, MTTR, and incident count.
• Identify fragile components and propose hardening.

Companion Skills

• homelab-monitoring-analyst — detect and diagnose
• homelab-change-planner — implement fixes safely
• homelab-logbook — record all incidents
• homelab-safe-ops — safety gate

References

• Google SRE Book: https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/