Incident Runbook Templates

This is a comprehensive collection of incident response templates that walks you through the entire runbook structure, from detection to resolution. You get ready-to-use markdown templates covering service outages, latency issues, and traffic surges, complete with actual bash commands for Kubernetes troubleshooting, database query analysis, and rollback procedures. The severity matrix, escalation paths, and communication templates are all here, which saves you from reinventing this wheel during an actual fire. Most valuable when you're either building out your on-call processes from scratch or standardizing across teams, though you'll need to adapt the specific commands and thresholds to your infrastructure.

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$ npx -y skills add sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills --skill incident-runbook-templates --agent claude-code

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Incident Runbook Templates

Adaptable templates for incident response runbooks covering detection, triage, mitigation, resolution, and communication.

Do not use this skill when

The task is unrelated to incident runbook templates
You need a different domain or tool outside this scope

Instructions

Clarify goals, constraints, and required inputs.
Apply relevant best practices and validate outcomes.
Provide actionable steps and verification.

Use this skill when

Creating incident response procedures
Building service-specific runbooks
Establishing escalation paths
Documenting recovery procedures
Responding to active incidents
Onboarding on-call engineers

Core Concepts

1. Incident Severity Levels

Severity	Impact	Response Time	Example
SEV1	Complete outage, data loss	15 min	Production down
SEV2	Major degradation	30 min	Critical feature broken
SEV3	Minor impact	2 hours	Non-critical bug
SEV4	Minimal impact	Next business day	Cosmetic issue