SRE Practice Skills

SRE Practice Skills is an open-source collection of eight Agent Skills published by paulip114 on GitHub. It turns practices from Google's two free SRE books into step-by-step procedures, checklists and templates that Claude Code and other Agent Skills-compatible agents load when a request matches. The project is unofficial and not affiliated with or endorsed by Google.

What It Is

The repository packages SRE guidance as standard SKILL.md skills rather than as an application. Each skill links to the chapters of Site Reliability Engineering and The Site Reliability Workbook it draws on, but the procedures are written in the author's own words and do not reproduce the books' text. The skills cover SLOs and error budgets, monitoring and alerting, incident response, postmortems, on-call and toil, release and launch, capacity and system design, and data reliability.

How It Works in Practice

An agent loads a skill automatically when the request matches its description, or you can name one directly, for example asking it to use sre-slos-and-error-budgets to propose SLOs for a checkout API. In the README's illustrative example, the skill guides the agent to produce starter SLO targets derived from observed performance, allowed bad events per window, known measurement blind spots, a filled-in SLO document and sign-off steps.

Templates and Tools

The skills ship with reference material: an SLI menu by component type, SLO document and error budget policy templates, Prometheus recording and alerting rules, a live incident document template, a postmortem template, a launch checklist, a production best-practices audit list and a back-of-envelope estimation cheatsheet. A Python script, burn_rate.py, uses only the standard library to calculate multiwindow burn-rate alert thresholds for a given SLO and period.

Setup Path

Install all skills with the skills CLI via npx skills add, install a single skill or target Claude Code only, or install globally. Alternatively, clone the repository and copy the skill folders into ~/.claude/skills. The README is provided in English and Traditional Chinese.