On-call handoff document

Brief for the incoming on-call engineer — open alerts, ongoing investigations, scheduled changes.

No more "what's broken right now?" at 9:01 Monday.

DevOps & SREoncallhandoff

The prompt

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Write an on-call handoff. Sections:

**Open / firing alerts** (table: alert / since / link / context)
**Ongoing investigations** (status, owner, next step)
**Scheduled changes / deploys** (next 48h)
**Known issues** (1-line each, with links)
**Runbooks updated this rotation**
**Coverage notes** (vacations, timezones)

Rules:
- Specific, not "things look mostly fine".
- Link everything.

Or run it here

Notes from the rotation

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Output

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Incident runbook

Drafts an on-call runbook for a specific failure mode — detect, diagnose, mitigate, recover.

Production Dockerfile

Generates a multi-stage, small-image Dockerfile for a given stack.

CI pipeline (GitHub Actions)

A complete CI pipeline YAML — lint, test, build, scan, deploy — for a Node/Python/Go service.

Useful log query

Writes a log query (Datadog / Splunk / Loki / CloudWatch) to surface what you need.

Observability plan for a service

Plan for metrics, logs, traces, and alerts for a new service — what to instrument from day 1.

Cron expression → English

Decodes any cron schedule string into when it actually runs.

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