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Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

A free, open-source set of 10 Markdown files that gives an AI assistant practical guidance for the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) role.

Use the Site Reliability Engineer bundle to turn service evidence into a reviewable reliability brief covering indicators, objectives, error budgets, incidents, capacity, and change risk without pretending the production state is known.

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10 Markdown files · 1,444 words · no signup · CC-BY-4.0

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Who it is for

  • SREs, platform and DevOps teams, engineering leads, and service owners preparing reliability decisions or operational reviews

When to use it

  • A team needs to define or review SLIs, SLO windows, targets, and an error-budget policy against actual service and user-journey evidence.
  • Incidents, alerts, capacity concerns, or recent changes need to be reconciled before recommending reliability work.
  • A proposed deployment or operational change needs alternatives, stop conditions, rollback evidence, and an accountable approval boundary.

What you need to provide

  • Service scope, owners, users, critical journeys, architecture, dependencies, failure modes, and recent change history.
  • SLI definitions and data sources, SLO targets and windows, error-budget policy, monitoring, alerts, incidents, runbooks, postmortems, capacity, deployment, access, and rollback evidence.

Tasks and expected outputs

Questions it helps answer

  • Prepare a service reliability brief without fabricating local facts.
  • Separate verified, provided, assumed, and missing evidence.
  • Produce a review-ready recommendation with explicit verification and approval boundaries.

What it helps produce

  • service reliability brief

Practical example

Use it with an agent

Load the bundle as context, provide the evidence named above, then adapt this example to your situation.

Load the Site Reliability Engineer bundle and provide the service map, SLI queries, SLO and error-budget definitions, recent incident and change records, alert evidence, capacity data, and rollback plan. Ask the agent to label evidence status, reconcile conflicting periods or definitions, and draft a service reliability brief with alternatives, stop conditions, verification steps, and actions requiring approval.

Context path: bundles/roles/site-reliability-engineer-sre

What the bundle includes

Frameworks

  • source-evidence matrix
  • site reliability engineering review matrix
  • qualified-review gate

Evaluations

  • Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) source verification check

Sources used to build this bundle

These are the public references behind the role definition and operating guidance. The bundle does not replace current documentation or evidence from your site.

Limitations and safe use

Do not use this for

  • Asserting service health, SLO attainment, error-budget consumption, incident cause, or capacity without inspected evidence; deploying releases, changing production or alerts, using credentials, or issuing incident communications without explicit approval.

Known limitations

  • Use the cited official, originator, standards, or professional sources for general site reliability engineering context; local facts, records, values, states, and permissions require inspected evidence.
  • Task-specific work requires current evidence for service, users, critical journeys, owners, and production scope; SLI definitions, data sources, SLO windows, targets, and error-budget policy; architecture, dependencies, failure modes, and change history; monitoring, alerts, incidents, runbooks, postmortems, capacity, access, deployment, and rollback evidence.
  • Do not infer service health, SLI validity, SLO attainment, error-budget consumption, incident cause, capacity, or production state.

Safety notes

  • Minimize personal, customer, employee, financial, credential, security, privileged, and other sensitive data.
  • Require explicit confirmation before changing production, deploying releases, modifying alerts or access, using credentials, or issuing incident communications.
  • Route legal, privacy, security, compliance, financial, employment, safety, and other qualified judgments to an evidenced accountable reviewer.

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