Incident Response

anthropics/knowledge-work-pluginsOfficial

This walks you through the full incident lifecycle from triage to postmortem. It'll assess severity, help you draft status updates with clear timelines, and generate blameless postmortems with 5 whys analysis and action items. The structured templates are solid for keeping communication factual when everything's on fire. If you have monitoring or PagerDuty connected, it can pull metrics and page responders automatically. Most useful when you need to turn chaos into documented process, especially if your team doesn't have incident response muscle memory yet. The postmortem format alone is worth keeping around.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill incident-response --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

/incident-response

If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see CONNECTORS.md.

Manage an incident from detection through postmortem.

Usage

/incident-response $ARGUMENTS

Modes

/incident-response new [description]     # Start a new incident
/incident-response update [status]       # Post a status update
/incident-response postmortem            # Generate postmortem from incident data

If no mode is specified, ask what phase the incident is in.