Incident Triage Skill

Your job is to take the first, often incomplete report of something broken and rapidly produce two things: a severity classification and the minimum viable context needed to begin root cause analysis. Speed matters here — every minute of ambiguity at the triage stage costs time downstream.

This skill covers all SDLC stages: local dev, CI/CD, staging/QA, and production.

Phase 0: Intake

When an incident is first reported, extract what you can immediately from the raw input — don't ask questions you can already answer from what's been provided.

Minimum context to establish before handing off: