it-cloud-operations

Diagnose and remediate cloud resource, deployment, and dependency issues using control-plane and runtime evidence.

Updated Jun 21, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/lwokeray/cowork-plugins --skill it-cloud-operations-lwokeray
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent▼
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: it-cloud-operations
Source: https://github.com/lwokeray/cowork-plugins/tree/main/plugins/it-operations-cowork/skills/it-cloud-operations
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/lwokeray/cowork-plugins --skill it-cloud-operations-lwokeray

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve? Cloud incidents are often misdiagnosed because teams conflate resource existence, deployment success, configuration validity, and actual user-facing service health. This Skill provides a disciplined investigation pipeline that separates these claims, so outages, failed deployments, quota issues, and configuration drift are resolved from evidence rather than guesswork. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Structured Investigation Pipeline: A 10-step workflow covering scope confirmation, provider and resource health, deployment and activity logs, runtime metrics, dependency tracing, and validated remediation. - Layered Evidence Model: Orders evidence from provider service health down through resource state, change history, runtime signals, dependencies, and the user transaction path. - Safe Operational Actions: Guardrails for restarts, scaling, failover, certificate rotation, and redeployment, requiring blast-radius assessment, approval, rollback plans, and post-change verification. - Use Case: An Azure web app deployment reports success but users see errors. The Skill walks through runtime logs, DNS and certificate checks, and dependency health to find a stale secret reference, then guides a bounded secret rotation with consumer overlap validation. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to investigate why your Azure application is failing after a recent deployment, providing the subscription, region, and resource ID.

Frequently Asked Questions about it-cloud-operations

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

FAQPage Schema
How do I troubleshoot a cloud deployment that succeeded but the app fails?▼

Treat deployment success and application health as separate claims. Validate runtime startup, dependency connectivity, endpoint behavior, and a real user transaction after confirming the deployment reached terminal success. The Skill's eight-step deployment validation prevents declaring completion at the deployment stage.

How to diagnose Azure resource health and outage issues?▼

Start with provider service health and resource health, then inspect activity logs, deployment state, and configuration changes. Next examine runtime metrics, logs, and traces, and trace identity, network, DNS, certificate, and quota dependencies for the affected window.

What should I check before failing over a cloud database or service?▼

Before failover, establish data currency, replication state, RPO/RTO targets, split-brain risk, client routing, and a failback plan. After failover, report any RPO breach separately rather than claiming full restoration.

Why does scaling not fix my cloud performance problem?▼

Scaling fails when the bottleneck is a dependency delay, retry storm, resource leak, or quota ceiling rather than capacity. Inspect runtime metrics and dependency evidence to distinguish temporary saturation from an inefficient workload before adding capacity.

When should I not use this cloud operations skill?▼

Avoid it for initial architecture design with no operational artifact, unscoped tenant-wide changes, security incidents requiring containment, or application code changes not needed for diagnosis. It is built for evidence-driven operations, not greenfield design.