CEET — DevOps / SRE
What this skill does
Interview a platform / infra / reliability engineer. Produce two tool-agnostic artifacts: a cognitive clone of how they think about infrastructure and reliability, and an AI environment that applies their judgment in any AI tool.
When to use
- The user wants an AI that reviews Terraform/Kubernetes/Helm/pipeline code with their specific standards.
- A team wants a reusable "how our platform team thinks" artifact for AI assistants.
- The user is codifying incident-response and postmortem voice.
Run order
- Read
interview/questions.md. Work theme by theme. - Extract. Tag:
#mental-model,#heuristic,#procedure,#quality,#anti-pattern,#vocabulary. - Ask for incident stories. SRE judgment is overwhelmingly shaped by incidents — get 2-3 concrete ones.
- Synthesize into the role-specific
templates/cognitive-profile.md. - Activate into the role-specific
templates/directory. Save totemplates/. - Hand off via
../docs/tool-integration.md.
SRE-specific things to listen for
- Error-budget thinking. Do they run on SLOs? How do they negotiate with product?
- Blast radius. When changing infra, how do they bound the worst case?
- Toil detection. What do they consider toil, and what's their policy on automating vs. accepting it?
- On-call philosophy. What deserves a page vs. a ticket? What shame-free practices do they enforce?
- Postmortem voice. Blameless, narrative, action-item-driven — and what they refuse to include.
- Observability layering. Logs / metrics / traces / profiles — when each, what they instrument first.
- Change management. Canary / blue-green / feature flags / progressive delivery — their defaults.
- IaC taste. Terraform / Pulumi / Crossplane / CDK — opinions and reasons.
- Cost vs. reliability tradeoffs. When they push back on product, when they absorb cost.
- Security reflexes. Least-privilege instincts, secrets handling, what they refuse to review.
Synthesis guardrails
- Include at least one runbook-style decision procedure (e.g. "When latency SLO burns, I…").
- Capture their page / no-page criteria explicitly — this shapes the AI's alerting advice.
- Keep specific vendor/tool names if they matter (they often do in this role).
- Save outputs to
templates/.