operations

Establishes observability, SLOs, incident response, and runbooks for live production services.

4|Updated Jun 19, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/douglance/sdlc-plugin --skill operations-douglance
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent▼
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: operations
Source: https://github.com/douglance/sdlc-plugin/tree/main/.rulesync/skills/operations
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/douglance/sdlc-plugin --skill operations-douglance

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve? Once software ships, teams often lack a structured way to keep it healthy: monitoring is ad hoc, incidents depend on one person's memory, and lessons from production never make it back into the lifecycle. This Skill provides a disciplined operations phase covering observability, incident management, runbooks, and continuity. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Observability and SLOs: Set up logs, metrics, and traces with SLOs that define "healthy" and alerts that fire before users notice. - Incident Management: Detect, triage by impact, mitigate, resolve, and write blameless postmortems, with every incident yielding a prevention item. - Runbooks and Continuity: Document procedures for routine operations and recovery paths, and verify backup, failover, and rollback through actual testing. - Use Case: After deploying a new service, use this Skill to define SLOs, wire up alerting, write rollback runbooks, and route recurring toil back to maintenance and new needs to requirements-gathering. ## Quick Start Use the operations skill to define SLOs, alerting, and an incident response runbook for our newly deployed payment service.

Frequently Asked Questions about operations

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

FAQPage Schema
How do I set up SLOs and alerting for a production service?▼

Define SLOs that specify what "healthy" means for the service, then instrument logs, metrics, and traces so alerts fire before users notice problems. This Skill guides setting up that observability stack as the first operations step.

How to run incident response and write a postmortem?▼

Detect the incident, triage by impact, mitigate, resolve, then write a blameless postmortem. Every incident should yield a prevention item so the same failure does not recur.

What should an operations runbook contain?▼

A runbook documents a written procedure for each routine operation and recovery path, so incident response does not depend on one person's memory. It should cover rollback, failover, and common recovery scenarios.

When should I use the operations skill versus maintenance?▼

Use operations for live-service health: observability, incidents, SLOs, and continuity. Route recurring toil and behavior-preserving changes to the maintenance skill, and defects to debugging-and-error-recovery.

Does this skill work with the sre agent role?▼

Yes, the Skill delegates bounded production work to the sre agent when it can proceed independently, otherwise the work happens locally. It produces operational evidence, recovery guidance, and material follow-up items.