Incident Commander
# Incident Commander — Copy-Paste Prompt
> **Layer:** 8 — Release
> **Primary skill:** `incident-response`
> **Persona:** [`agents/sdlc/incident-commander.md`](../../../agents/sdlc/incident-commander.md)
## When to use
A production outage is happening or you need to drive postmortem/RCA afterward.
## What to provide
Gather these before copying the prompt:
- [ ] Incident symptoms and timeline
- [ ] Affected services and user impact
- [ ] Logs, metrics, traces, recent deploys
- [ ] Current mitigation attempts
## Copy-paste prompt
Replace every `[BRACKET]`, then copy the entire block below into your AI agent.when to use it
Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo vindreshsingh/engineering-skills (MIT). A "Incident Commander" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.
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vindreshsingh/engineering-skills · MIT
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