Agent skill

Creating Alerting Rules

by jeremylongshore in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace

Execute this skill enables AI assistant to create intelligent alerting rules for proactive performance monitoring.

MITAuto-check passedDevOps & Cloud

Install Creating Alerting Rules

skills CLI
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill creating-alerting-rules -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace creating-alerting-rules --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/creating-alerting-rules .claude/skills/creating-alerting-rules && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
creating-alerting-rules
GitHub stars
2.8k
Token cost
~949 tokens
SKILL.md length
420 words
Files
7 (incl. scripts, references, assets)
Skills in repo
3,342
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Execute this skill enables AI assistant to create intelligent alerting rules for proactive performance monitoring.

  • Works in 4 steps: Identify Alert Category: Determines the… → Define Thresholds: Sets appropriate… → Configure Routing and Escalation:… → …
  • Requests to create alerts
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, How It Works, When to Use This Skill and Examples, plus 7 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder

What it does

Creating Alerting Rules is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Execute this skill enables AI assistant to create intelligent alerting rules for proactive performance monitoring. it is triggered when the user requests to "create alerts", "define monitoring rules", or "set up alerting". the skill helps define thresholds, rou... Use when generating or creating new content. Trigger with phrases like 'generate', 'create', or 'scaffold'.

Its SKILL.md is about 950 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 9 other files, including scripts, reference files and assets (for example `assets/README.md`, `references/README.md` and `scripts/README.md`). Compatibility notes: Designed for Claude Code

It sits in DevOps & Cloud, covering Monitoring and alerting. The repository describes itself as: Model-agnostic agent-skills platform with a harness-free canonical layer, verified adapters, and the ccpi package manager. Explore at tonsofskills.com. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Requests to create alerts
  • Define monitoring rules
  • Set up alerting
  • Creating new content

Example prompts

  • “create alerts”
  • “define monitoring rules”
  • “set up alerting”
  • “/creating-alerting-rules”

Requirements

  • Python 3
  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code
  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash(cmd:*)

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Identify Alert Category: Determines the type of alert to create (e.g., latency, error rate, resource utilization).
  2. Define Thresholds: Sets appropriate thresholds to avoid alert fatigue and ensure timely notification of performance issues.
  3. Configure Routing and Escalation: Establishes routing policies to direct alerts to the appropriate teams and escalation policies for…
  4. Generate Runbook: Creates a basic runbook with steps to diagnose and resolve the alerted issue.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cfae287. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Write
    • Edit
    • Grep
    • Glob
    • Bash(cmd:*)

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 4 files in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

  • Compatibility

    Designed for Claude Code

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Creating Alerting Rules loads about 949 tokens when it runs, and up to ~965 if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 99 tokens; SKILL.md has 420 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~99
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~949
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~965

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 420 words, ~949 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/creating-alerting-rules/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 6 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
creating-alerting-rules
description
Execute this skill enables AI assistant to create intelligent alerting rules for proactive performance monitoring. it is triggered when the user requests to "create alerts", "define monitoring rules", or "set up alerting". the skill helps define thresholds, rou... Use when generating or creating new content. Trigger with phrases like 'generate', 'create', or 'scaffold'.
allowed-tools
Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash(cmd:*)
compatibility
Designed for Claude Code
version
1.21.0
author
Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>
license
MIT
tags
performance, monitoring, alerting-rules

Alerting Rule Creator

Create production-ready alerting rules for Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty with intelligent thresholds, routing policies, and escalation procedures.

Overview

This skill automates the creation of comprehensive alerting rules, reducing the manual effort required for performance monitoring. It guides you through defining alert categories, setting intelligent thresholds, and configuring routing and escalation policies. The skill also helps generate runbooks and establish alert testing procedures.

How It Works

  1. Identify Alert Category: Determines the type of alert to create (e.g., latency, error rate, resource utilization).
  2. Define Thresholds: Sets appropriate thresholds to avoid alert fatigue and ensure timely notification of performance issues.
  3. Configure Routing and Escalation: Establishes routing policies to direct alerts to the appropriate teams and escalation policies for timely response.
  4. Generate Runbook: Creates a basic runbook with steps to diagnose and resolve the alerted issue.

When to Use This Skill

This skill activates when you need to:

  • Implement performance monitoring for a new service.
  • Refine existing alerting rules to reduce false positives.
  • Create alerts for specific performance metrics, such as latency or error rate.

Examples

Example 1: Setting up Latency Alerts

User request: "create latency alerts for the payment service"

The skill will:

  1. Prompt for latency thresholds (e.g., warning and critical).
  2. Configure alerts to trigger when latency exceeds defined thresholds.
Example 2: Creating Error Rate Alerts

User request: "set up alerting for error rate increases in the API gateway"

The skill will:

  1. Request the baseline error rate and acceptable deviation.
  2. Configure alerts to trigger when the error rate exceeds the defined deviation from the baseline.
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Best Practices

  • Threshold Selection: Use historical data and statistical analysis to determine appropriate thresholds that minimize false positives and negatives.
  • Alert Routing: Route alerts to the appropriate teams or individuals based on the alert category and severity.
  • Runbook Creation: Generate or link to detailed runbooks that provide clear instructions for diagnosing and resolving the alerted issue.

Integration

This skill can be integrated with other Claude Code plugins to automate incident response workflows. For example, it can trigger automated remediation actions or create tickets in an issue tracking system.

Prerequisites

  • Appropriate file access permissions
  • Required dependencies installed

Instructions

  1. Invoke this skill when the trigger conditions are met
  2. Provide necessary context and parameters
  3. Review the generated output
  4. Apply modifications as needed

Output

The skill produces structured output relevant to the task.

Error Handling

  • Invalid input: Prompts for correction
  • Missing dependencies: Lists required components
  • Permission errors: Suggests remediation steps

Resources

  • Project documentation
  • Related skills and commands

© jeremylongshore, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 6 other files (scripts, references, assets) in skills/.curated/creating-alerting-rules of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

  • SKILL.md
  • assets/README.md
  • references/README.md
  • scripts/README.md
  • scripts/generate_runbook.py
  • scripts/route_alert.py
  • scripts/validate_thresholds.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287

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Categories

Questions about Creating Alerting Rules

What does Creating Alerting Rules do?

Execute this skill enables AI assistant to create intelligent alerting rules for proactive performance monitoring. Creating Alerting Rules is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Execute this skill enables AI assistant to create intelligent alerting rules for proactive performance monitoring.

When should I use Creating Alerting Rules?

Creating Alerting Rules fits situations like: requests to create alerts; define monitoring rules; set up alerting; creating new content.

How do I install Creating Alerting Rules in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill creating-alerting-rules -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/creating-alerting-rules in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .claude/skills/creating-alerting-rules in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Creating Alerting Rules in Codex?

Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill creating-alerting-rules -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/creating-alerting-rules in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .agents/skills/creating-alerting-rules in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Creating Alerting Rules in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill creating-alerting-rules -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/creating-alerting-rules, .gemini/skills/creating-alerting-rules, .github/skills/creating-alerting-rules and .opencode/skills/creating-alerting-rules in your project.

What does Creating Alerting Rules need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Creating Alerting Rules needs Python for the scripts in its folder. Our summary lists: Python 3. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash(cmd:*). Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code.

Does Creating Alerting Rules access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Creating Alerting Rules safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Creating Alerting Rules use?

Creating Alerting Rules is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Creating Alerting Rules use?

About 949 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 16 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Creating Alerting Rules?

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Who maintains Creating Alerting Rules?

jeremylongshore (a GitHub user) maintains it in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, which has 2,827 GitHub stars. The repository holds 3,342 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.