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Incident Response Playbook Builder

Designs structured incident response playbooks with steps, decision trees, escalation and RACI tables

Stars
35,430
Licence
Apache-2.0
Files
3 files

What it does

Once installed, the agent helps a security team write incident response playbooks: step-by-step procedures for specific incident types such as ransomware, phishing, or data breaches. It can produce decision trees, escalation criteria, role assignment (RACI) tables, and outlines for automating steps in a SOAR platform, following the NIST SP 800-61r3 and SANS PICERL frameworks. It also includes a Python helper script that holds template content for several playbook types.

Great for

  • Security teams building or maturing an incident response program
  • Analysts documenting a runbook for a new attack type after an incident
  • Teams preparing documented IR procedures for audits such as SOC 2 or PCI-DSS

Skip it if

  • Live incident handling or one-time investigations, since the skill is for reusable procedure documents (the skill says so itself)
  • Organizations that treat generated procedures as final without review by experienced responders, because example commands and tool steps may not match their environment

Try asking

  • “Create an incident response playbook for ransomware that covers detection, containment, eradication, recovery and communication”
  • “Draft a phishing and credential compromise playbook with a severity decision tree”
  • “Write a RACI matrix for our incident response team roles”
  • “Outline which steps of a business email compromise playbook could be automated in Splunk SOAR”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Incident Response Playbook BuilderInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 3 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.

    building-incident-response-playbook.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip building-incident-response-playbook.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip building-incident-response-playbook.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Scope each playbook to a single incident type and check the generated steps against your own risk assessment and tool stack
  • Replace example hostnames, IPs and vendor console steps with your real environment details before use
  • Review the script's network calls and the requests dependency before running it, since the file excerpt shown does not reveal everything it does

What's inside

  • references/api-reference.md
  • scripts/agent.py
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills under the Apache-2.0 licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.