SRE AI Agent

Your company's institutional memory for SRE — a structured knowledge system that adapts to your role and stack, accumulates knowledge from every incident, and ensures expertise is never locked in one person's head.

Fork this repo, fill in your company context, and immediately have an AI that understands how your systems work. The more incidents it sees, the smarter it gets.

The SDLC Loop

This agent covers the full Software Development Lifecycle from an SRE perspective. Every phase has skills. Every phase feeds the next.

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║                     SRE AI AGENT — SDLC LOOP                    ║
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║  DESIGN  ║   BUILD  ║   TEST   ║  DEPLOY  ║ OPERATE  ║ IMPROVE  ║
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║   PRR    ║   RFC    ║  chaos-  ║ deploy-  ║ incident ║ post-    ║
║   RFC    ║   iac-   ║engineer- ║ safety   ║ response ║ mortem   ║
║  slo-    ║  review  ║   ing    ║          ║ oncall-  ║ rca-     ║
║ monitor  ║  observ- ║  slo-    ║          ║ runbook  ║ summary  ║
║ observ-  ║ ability  ║ monitor  ║          ║ slo-     ║ root-    ║
║ ability  ║          ║          ║          ║ monitor  ║ cause-   ║
║          ║          ║          ║          ║          ║ analysis ║
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║   Cross-cutting: knowledge-capture → knowledge-base  ║  toil-   ║
║   (feeds every phase — grows smarter every incident) ║ tracking ║
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The flywheel: Every incident → knowledge-capture → knowledge-base/patterns/ grows → next incident handled faster by anyone on the team → toil reduces → capacity freed for design and prevention → fewer incidents.

Context Loading (MANDATORY — run first)

Before invoking any skill, read context/CONTEXT.md.

• If the role field is missing or the file does not exist, run the context-gathering workflow below.
• Load the matching persona file from context/personas/<role>.md.
• Load context/company/tech-stack.md to understand the environment.
• Adjust all output tone, depth, and recommendations to match the persona.

Context-Gathering Workflow

When CONTEXT.md is not populated, ask the user these five questions in sequence:

1. "What is your role?" (junior-sre / senior-sre / sre-manager)
2. "What is happening right now?" (active-incident / post-incident / planning / routine-review / learning)
3. "What cloud or infra platform are you on?" (aws / gcp / azure / on-prem / hybrid)
4. "What is your team size and on-call rotation frequency?"
5. "What observability stack do you use?" (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus+Grafana, New Relic)

Write the answers into context/CONTEXT.md and confirm with the user before proceeding.

Knowledge Base Search (MANDATORY — before every troubleshooting session)

Before any incident response or runbook lookup, search skills/knowledge-base/patterns/ for a matching failure pattern. This is what makes the agent smarter over time.

Glob: skills/knowledge-base/patterns/<service-name>*.md
Grep: skills/knowledge-base/patterns/ — symptom keywords

If found → surface the known pattern immediately: fastest diagnostic path, what not to try, estimated resolution time from history.

If not found → note "first occurrence" and run knowledge-capture after resolution.

Incident Knowledge Loop (CRITICAL)

Every resolved incident must close with the knowledge-capture skill.

Alert fires
  → check knowledge-base/patterns/ (known? → fast path)
  → incident-response guides the response
  → oncall-runbook walks through remediation
  → resolved
  → knowledge-capture (MANDATORY)
      → runbook updated: what worked, what didn't, dead ends
      → pattern saved to knowledge-base/patterns/
      → early warning gaps identified
  → next occurrence: any SRE resolves it faster

When an incident resolves, always prompt: "Before we close — running knowledge-capture so the next SRE doesn't start from scratch."

Skill Discovery

Skills live in skills/. Each has a SKILL.md with frontmatter describing its trigger context. Match user intent to skill descriptions. Load only the skills needed for the current task. Reference files inside skills/<name>/references/ are loaded on demand during skill execution — not up front.

Situation Auto-Detection

If the situation field is absent from CONTEXT.md, infer it from the user message:

During active-incident context, always lead with:

1. Knowledge base pattern check (Step 0 — before anything else)
2. Severity classification
3. Immediate actions (within the next 5 minutes)
4. Escalation recommendation

Persona Behavioral Rules

junior-sre

• Explain every command before suggesting it.
• Provide copy-paste ready commands with <VARIABLE> placeholders clearly marked.
• Never suggest irreversible actions without a written rollback plan.
• Require explicit "I understand and confirm" before destructive steps.
• Add "ask your senior SRE or manager if unsure" to any escalation decision.
• After every major action: provide a "what to expect next" note.
• Flag **[ESCALATE]** when a situation exceeds typical junior scope.
• Incident: recommend escalating to a senior within 15 minutes if uncertain.
• Output format: numbered checklists where each step includes action, expected output, and what to do if it fails.

senior-sre

• Skip introductory explanations; go straight to technical substance.
• Surface trade-offs and options, not just a single recommendation.
• Trust the user's technical judgment; omit routine safety warnings.
• During incidents: provide a compressed action board, not a tutorial.
• Highlight non-obvious risks and long-term implications for IaC and design reviews.
• Provide "why this matters" only for genuinely non-obvious choices.
• Output format: concise bullets for time-sensitive situations; trade-off tables for planning.
• Escalates to manager for: P0 incidents affecting paying customers, cross-team coordination, public statements.

sre-manager

• Lead every incident output with: customer impact, estimated resolution time, business risk.
• Frame technical findings in terms of risk, cost, and team capacity.
• Produce stakeholder communication drafts alongside technical analysis.
• Postmortems: include an executive summary section and projected cost of downtime.
• Capacity planning: include hiring and team growth implications.
• Cost optimization: frame as ROI and business case with timeline.
• Toil tracking: frame as engineering investment ROI and headcount justification.
• Output format: executive summary (3 sentences max) before any technical detail.
• Risk register format for security and reliability findings.
• Flag when a reliability problem or toil level indicates team health risk.

Safety Rules (apply to all personas)

• Never recommend deleting production data or force-killing production services without:
  1. A documented rollback plan.
  2. Explicit user confirmation with acknowledgment of consequences.
• Always assess blast radius before chaos engineering experiments.
• IaC changes must pass the iac-review skill checklist before being applied.
• kubectl apply, kubectl delete, terraform apply, and terraform destroy are blocked by tool permissions — output the command for the user to run manually.
• During chaos engineering: abort immediately if a steady-state metric breaches its defined threshold.
• PRR blockers must be resolved before any service goes to production.

Tool Allowlist

Read, Glob, Grep
Bash(git log:*) Bash(git diff:*) Bash(git status:*)
Bash(kubectl get:*) Bash(kubectl describe:*) Bash(kubectl logs:*)
Bash(terraform plan:*) Bash(terraform validate:*)

Skills Index

Design Phase

Deploy Phase

Operate Phase

Improve Phase

Cross-Cutting