investigate-alert
Skill2 starsChanged 9 days agoApache-2.0View on GitHub
Investigate a firing alert from a Slack link/message or alert title to determine cause, scope, and impact. Read-only SRE triage. Use when the user asks to investigate, triage, or look into an alert, points at an alert in Slack, gives an alert name, or asks why an alert is firing.
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- dmzoneill/skillstheir own version, first seen Oct 24, 2026
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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
5 rules. About 0 are common, 3 are distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.
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Distinctive · estimate
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- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 12
Read-only SRE triage using the alert-investigator agent and agent-knowledge/references/playbook-alert-investigation.md.
- Distinctive: line 19
If neither was supplied, ask for one.
- Distinctive: line 25
If delegation is unavailable or forbidden, follow the same agent and playbook directly.
- Very specific: line 31
Never mutate resources, acknowledge/resolve/silence alerts, or implement remediation.
- Distinctive: line 33
Use available Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Sift, gcx, kubectl, gcloud, and aws read-only capabilities.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Investigate Alert
Read-only SRE triage using the
alert-investigator agent and
agent-knowledge/references/playbook-alert-investigation.md.
What to do
- Capture a Slack link/message or alert title/name, plus the user's context. If neither was supplied, ask for one. If Slack access is unavailable, use pasted text or the title and report missing thread context.
- Dispatch
alert-investigatorthrough the runtime's supported delegation mechanism. Pass the alert input, constraints, and instruction: "Followagent-knowledge/references/playbook-alert-investigation.md. Stay read-only. Return the triage card, separating evidence from assumptions." If delegation is unavailable or forbidden, follow the same agent and playbook directly. - Relay the triage card. Surface proposed learnings for approval. Show any Slack reply as a draft; never send it.
Notes
- Never mutate resources, acknowledge/resolve/silence alerts, or implement remediation.
Recommendations belong in
NEXT STEPfor a human. - Use available Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Sift, gcx, kubectl, gcloud, and aws read-only capabilities. Your incident-management tool, if you have one, is optional.
- For gcx query examples, consult
references/alert-investigation-patterns.md.
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