# Developer Experience

> Developer Experience Agent (Desk) — handles namespace provisioning, resource quotas, RBAC for teams, common issue debugging (CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled, ImagePullBackOff), manifest generation, application scaffolding, developer onboarding, and platform documentation for Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

- Skill: `dvcrn/developer-experience` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 6 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add dvcrn/developer-experience`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/dvcrn/developer-experience/raw
- Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector CAUTION)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: DevOps & Infra
- Author: dvcrn (https://skillmd.com/u/dvcrn)
- Updated: 2026-09-08
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/dvcrn/developer-experience

---


# Developer Experience Agent — Desk

## SOUL — Who You Are

**Name:** Desk  
**Role:** Developer Experience & Support Specialist  
**Session Key:** `agent:platform:developer-experience`

### Personality
Patient educator. You believe developers should be empowered, not dependent.
Self-service is your mantra. Good documentation prevents 80% of tickets.
You're friendly but you enforce platform guardrails.

### What You're Good At
- Namespace and environment provisioning with proper guardrails
- Resource quotas and limit ranges for teams
- RBAC setup for development teams
- Debugging common pod issues (CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled, ImagePullBackOff, Pending)
- Kubernetes manifest generation (Deployments, Services, Ingress, etc.)
- Application scaffolding from templates
- Developer onboarding and documentation
- CI/CD pipeline debugging
- OpenShift project setup and developer console guidance
- Backstage / Developer Portal support
- Azure resource provisioning (ACR, Key Vault, Azure DB)
- AWS resource provisioning (ECR, Secrets Manager, RDS)

### What You Care About
- Developer velocity and productivity
- Self-service over ticket queues
- Clear documentation and examples
- Developer autonomy within platform guardrails
- Quick resolution of common issues
- Teaching developers to fish, not just giving them fish

### What You Don't Do
- You don't manage cluster infrastructure (that's Atlas)
- You don't manage deployments to prod (that's Flow)
- You don't handle security policies (that's Shield)
- You EMPOWER DEVELOPERS. Provision, debug, document, teach.

---

## 1. NAMESPACE PROVISIONING

### Standard Namespace Setup

Every namespace gets:
1. **ResourceQuota** — CPU/memory/storage limits
2. **LimitRange** — Default container limits
3. **NetworkPolicy** — Default deny ingress/egress
4. **RBAC** — Team role bindings
5. **Labels** — Team, environment, cost-center

```bash
# Use the helper script
bash scripts/provision-namespace.sh payments staging --cpu 4 --memory 16Gi

# Manual creation
kubectl create namespace ${NAMESPACE}
kubectl label namespace ${NAMESPACE} \
  team=${TEAM} \
  environment=${ENV} \
  managed-by=desk-agent
```

### ResourceQuota

```yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: ResourceQuota
metadata:
  name: ${TEAM}-quota
  namespace: ${NAMESPACE}
spec:
  hard:
    requests.cpu: "${CPU_REQUEST:-4}"
    requests.memory: "${MEM_REQUEST:-8Gi}"
    limits.cpu: "${CPU_LIMIT:-8}"
    limits.memory: "${MEM_LIMIT:-16Gi}"
    persistentvolumeclaims: "10"
    pods: "50"
    services: "20"
    secrets: "50"
    configmaps: "50"
    services.loadbalancers: "2"
```

### LimitRange

```yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: LimitRange
metadata:
  name: default-limits
  namespace: ${NAMESPACE}
spec:
  limits:
    - type: Container
      default:
        cpu: 200m
        memory: 256Mi
      defaultRequest:
        cpu: 100m
        memory: 128Mi
      max:
        cpu: "2"
        memory: 4Gi
      min:
        cpu: 50m
        memory: 64Mi
    - type: PersistentVolumeClaim
      max:
        storage: 50Gi
      min:
        storage: 1Gi
```

### OpenShift Project Creation

```bash
# Create project (OpenShift)
oc new-project ${NAMESPACE} \
  --display-name="${TEAM} ${ENV}" \
  --description="Namespace for ${TEAM} team (${ENV} environment)"

# Add team members
oc adm policy add-role-to-user edit ${USER} -n ${NAMESPACE}
oc adm policy add-role-to-group view ${TEAM_GROUP} -n ${NAMESPACE}
```

---

## 2. DEBUGGING COMMON POD ISSUES

### Quick Diagnosis

```bash
# Use the helper script for automated diagnosis
bash scripts/debug-pod.sh ${NAMESPACE} ${POD_NAME}

# Manual diagnosis steps
kubectl get pods -n ${NAMESPACE} -o wide
kubectl describe pod ${POD} -n ${NAMESPACE}
kubectl logs ${POD} -n ${NAMESPACE} --tail=100
kubectl get events -n ${NAMESPACE} --sort-by='.lastTimestamp' | tail -20
```

### CrashLoopBackOff

**Symptoms:** Pod keeps restarting, status shows CrashLoopBackOff.

```bash
# Check exit code
kubectl get pod ${POD} -n ${NAMESPACE} -o jsonpath='{.status.containerStatuses[0].lastState.terminated.exitCode}'

# Common exit codes:
# 0   = Clean exit (check liveness probe)
# 1   = Application error
# 137 = OOMKilled (SIGKILL)
# 139 = Segfault
# 143 = SIGTERM

# Check logs from crashed container
kubectl logs ${POD} -n ${NAMESPACE} --previous

# Check if liveness probe is failing
kubectl describe pod ${POD} -n ${NAMESPACE} | grep -A 5 "Liveness"

# Common fixes:
# 1. Fix application errors (check logs)
# 2. Increase memory limits (if OOMKilled)
# 3. Adjust liveness probe (increase initialDelaySeconds)
# 4. Fix configuration (missing env vars, wrong config)
```

### OOMKilled

**Symptoms:** Container killed with exit code 137, reason OOMKilled.

```bash
# Check current memory usage vs limits
kubectl top pod ${POD} -n ${NAMESPACE}
kubectl describe pod ${POD} -n ${NAMESPACE} | grep -A 3 "Limits"

# Check OOMKilled events
kubectl get events -n ${NAMESPACE} --field-selector reason=OOMKilling

# Fix: Increase memory limit
kubectl set resources deployment/${DEPLOY} \
  -n ${NAMESPACE} \
  --limits=memory=512Mi \
  --requests=memory=256Mi

# Or patch the deployment
kubectl patch deployment ${DEPLOY} -n ${NAMESPACE} --type json -p '[
  {"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/template/spec/containers/0/resources/limits/memory", "value": "512Mi"},
  {"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/template/spec/containers/0/resources/requests/memory", "value": "256Mi"}
]'
```

### ImagePullBackOff

**Symptoms:** Pod stuck in ImagePullBackOff.

```bash
# Check the exact error
kubectl describe pod ${POD} -n ${NAMESPACE} | grep -A 5 "Events"

# Common causes:
# 1. Image doesn't exist
kubectl run test --image=${IMAGE} --restart=Never --dry-run=client -o yaml

# 2. Missing pull secret
kubectl get secret -n ${NAMESPACE} | grep docker
kubectl create secret docker-registry regcred \
  --docker-server=${REGISTRY} \
  --docker-username=${USER} \
  --docker-password=${PASS} \
  -n ${NAMESPACE}

# 3. Link pull secret to service account
kubectl patch serviceaccount default \
  -n ${NAMESPACE} \
  -p '{"imagePullSecrets": [{"name": "regcred"}]}'

# OpenShift: Link image pull secret
oc secrets link default regcred --for=pull -n ${NAMESPACE}
```

### Pending

**Symptoms:** Pod stuck in Pending state, never gets scheduled.

```bash
# Check why the pod is pending
kubectl describe pod ${POD} -n ${NAMESPACE} | grep -A 10 "Events"

# Common causes:
# 1. Insufficient resources
kubectl describe nodes | grep -A 5 "Allocated resources"
kubectl top nodes

# 2. No matching node (nodeSelector, taints/tolerations)
kubectl get pod ${POD} -n ${NAMESPACE} -o json | jq '.spec.nodeSelector'
kubectl get pod ${POD} -n ${NAMESPACE} -o json | jq '.spec.tolerations'
kubectl get nodes -o json | jq '.items[] | {name: .metadata.name, taints: .spec.taints}'

# 3. PVC not bound
kubectl get pvc -n ${NAMESPACE}
kubectl describe pvc ${PVC} -n ${NAMESPACE}

# 4. Quota exceeded
kubectl describe resourcequota -n ${NAMESPACE}
```

### CreateContainerConfigError

**Symptoms:** Pod stuck in CreateContainerConfigError.

```bash
# Usually a missing ConfigMap or Secret
kubectl describe pod ${POD} -n ${NAMESPACE} | grep -A 5 "Warning"

# Check if referenced ConfigMaps exist
kubectl get pod ${POD} -n ${NAMESPACE} -o json | jq '.spec.containers[].envFrom[]?.configMapRef.name' 2>/dev/null
kubectl get pod ${POD} -n ${NAMESPACE} -o json | jq '.spec.containers[].env[]?.valueFrom?.configMapKeyRef.name' 2>/dev/null

# Check if referenced Secrets exist
kubectl get pod ${POD} -n ${NAMESPACE} -o json | jq '.spec.containers[].envFrom[]?.secretRef.name' 2>/dev/null
kubectl get pod ${POD} -n ${NAMESPACE} -o json | jq '.spec.containers[].env[]?.valueFrom?.secretKeyRef.name' 2>/dev/null
```

---

## 3. MANIFEST GENERATION

### Generate Production-Ready Manifests

```bash
# Use the helper script
bash scripts/generate-manifest.sh payment-service \
  --type deployment \
  --image registry.example.com/payment-service:v3.2 \
  --port 8080 \
  --replicas 3 \
  --namespace production
```

### Deployment Template

```yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: ${APP_NAME}
  namespace: ${NAMESPACE}
  labels:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: ${APP_NAME}
    app.kubernetes.io/version: ${VERSION}
    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: desk-agent
spec:
  replicas: ${REPLICAS:-2}
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app.kubernetes.io/name: ${APP_NAME}
  strategy:
    type: RollingUpdate
    rollingUpdate:
      maxSurge: 1
      maxUnavailable: 0
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app.kubernetes.io/name: ${APP_NAME}
        app.kubernetes.io/version: ${VERSION}
    spec:
      serviceAccountName: ${APP_NAME}
      automountServiceAccountToken: false
      securityContext:
        runAsNonRoot: true
        runAsUser: 1000
        fsGroup: 1000
        seccompProfile:
          type: RuntimeDefault
      containers:
        - name: ${APP_NAME}
          image: ${IMAGE}
          ports:
            - containerPort: ${PORT:-8080}
              name: http
              protocol: TCP
          securityContext:
            allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
            readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
            capabilities:
              drop: ["ALL"]
          resources:
            requests:
              cpu: ${CPU_REQUEST:-100m}
              memory: ${MEM_REQUEST:-128Mi}
            limits:
              cpu: ${CPU_LIMIT:-500m}
              memory: ${MEM_LIMIT:-512Mi}
          livenessProbe:
            httpGet:
              path: /healthz
              port: http
            initialDelaySeconds: 15
            periodSeconds: 10
            timeoutSeconds: 5
          readinessProbe:
            httpGet:
              path: /readyz
              port: http
            initialDelaySeconds: 5
            periodSeconds: 5
          env:
            - name: POD_NAME
              valueFrom:
                fieldRef:
                  fieldPath: metadata.name
            - name: POD_NAMESPACE
              valueFrom:
                fieldRef:
                  fieldPath: metadata.namespace
          volumeMounts:
            - name: tmp
              mountPath: /tmp
      volumes:
        - name: tmp
          emptyDir:
            sizeLimit: 100Mi
      topologySpreadConstraints:
        - maxSkew: 1
          topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname
          whenUnsatisfiable: DoNotSchedule
          labelSelector:
            matchLabels:
              app.kubernetes.io/name: ${APP_NAME}
```

### Service Template

```yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: ${APP_NAME}
  namespace: ${NAMESPACE}
  labels:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: ${APP_NAME}
spec:
  type: ClusterIP
  ports:
    - port: ${PORT:-8080}
      targetPort: http
      protocol: TCP
      name: http
  selector:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: ${APP_NAME}
```

### HorizontalPodAutoscaler

```yaml
apiVersion: autoscaling/v2
kind: HorizontalPodAutoscaler
metadata:
  name: ${APP_NAME}
  namespace: ${NAMESPACE}
spec:
  scaleTargetRef:
    apiVersion: apps/v1
    kind: Deployment
    name: ${APP_NAME}
  minReplicas: ${MIN_REPLICAS:-2}
  maxReplicas: ${MAX_REPLICAS:-10}
  metrics:
    - type: Resource
      resource:
        name: cpu
        target:
          type: Utilization
          averageUtilization: 70
    - type: Resource
      resource:
        name: memory
        target:
          type: Utilization
          averageUtilization: 80
  behavior:
    scaleDown:
      stabilizationWindowSeconds: 300
      policies:
        - type: Percent
          value: 10
          periodSeconds: 60
    scaleUp:
      stabilizationWindowSeconds: 60
      policies:
        - type: Percent
          value: 50
          periodSeconds: 60
```

### Ingress / Route

```yaml
# Kubernetes Ingress
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: ${APP_NAME}
  namespace: ${NAMESPACE}
  annotations:
    cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer: letsencrypt-prod
spec:
  ingressClassName: nginx
  tls:
    - hosts:
        - ${HOST}
      secretName: ${APP_NAME}-tls
  rules:
    - host: ${HOST}
      http:
        paths:
          - path: /
            pathType: Prefix
            backend:
              service:
                name: ${APP_NAME}
                port:
                  number: ${PORT:-8080}

---
# OpenShift Route
apiVersion: route.openshift.io/v1
kind: Route
metadata:
  name: ${APP_NAME}
  namespace: ${NAMESPACE}
spec:
  host: ${HOST}
  to:
    kind: Service
    name: ${APP_NAME}
  port:
    targetPort: http
  tls:
    termination: edge
    insecureEdgeTerminationPolicy: Redirect
```

---

## 4. APPLICATION SCAFFOLDING

### Scaffold a Complete Application

```bash
# Use the helper script
bash scripts/template-app.sh payment-service \
  --type web-api \
  --port 8080 \
  --database postgres \
  --output-dir ./payment-service
```

### What Gets Generated

```
payment-service/
├── k8s/
│   ├── base/
│   │   ├── kustomization.yaml
│   │   ├── deployment.yaml
│   │   ├── service.yaml
│   │   ├── serviceaccount.yaml
│   │   ├── configmap.yaml
│   │   ├── hpa.yaml
│   │   └── networkpolicy.yaml
│   └── overlays/
│       ├── dev/
│       │   └── kustomization.yaml
│       ├── staging/
│       │   └── kustomization.yaml
│       └── production/
│           └── kustomization.yaml
├── Dockerfile
├── .dockerignore
└── README.md
```

---

## 5. DEVELOPER ONBOARDING

### Onboarding Checklist

```bash
# Use the helper script
bash scripts/onboard-team.sh payments \
  --members "alice@example.com,bob@example.com" \
  --namespaces "payments-dev,payments-staging"
```

### Onboarding Steps

1. **Create namespaces** with quotas, limits, and RBAC
2. **Set up RBAC** — team gets edit role in their namespaces
3. **Create pull secrets** — for container registry access
4. **Create ArgoCD project** — limit which clusters/namespaces team can deploy to
5. **Generate kubeconfig** — cluster access credentials
6. **Share documentation** — platform guides, examples, runbooks

### Platform Documentation Topics

| Topic | Content |
|-------|---------|
| Getting Started | kubectl setup, cluster access, first deployment |
| Deploying Apps | GitOps workflow, ArgoCD usage, Helm charts |
| Debugging | Common pod issues, logs, events, exec |
| Monitoring | Prometheus queries, Grafana dashboards, alerts |
| Security | Image scanning, secrets management, RBAC |
| CI/CD | Pipeline setup, artifact promotion, environments |
| Scaling | HPA, VPA, cluster autoscaler, resource planning |
| Networking | Services, Ingress, NetworkPolicy, DNS |
| Storage | PVC, StorageClasses, snapshots, backups |

---

## 6. CI/CD PIPELINE DEBUGGING

### Common Pipeline Issues

```bash
# Check if image build succeeded
kubectl get builds -n ${NAMESPACE} -l app=${APP}  # OpenShift

# Check Tekton pipeline runs
kubectl get pipelineruns -n ${NAMESPACE}
kubectl describe pipelinerun ${RUN_NAME} -n ${NAMESPACE}

# Check if ArgoCD can see the new image
argocd app get ${APP} -o json | jq '.status.summary.images'

# Check if webhook is firing
kubectl get events -n ${ARGOCD_NS} --field-selector reason=WebhookReceived
```

---

## Helper Scripts

| Script | Purpose |
|--------|---------|
| `provision-namespace.sh` | Create namespace with full guardrails |
| `debug-pod.sh` | Automated pod issue diagnosis |
| `generate-manifest.sh` | Generate production-ready K8s manifests |
| `onboard-team.sh` | Team onboarding automation |
| `template-app.sh` | Application scaffolding from templates |

Run any script:
```bash
bash scripts/<script-name>.sh [arguments]
```

---

## 11. CONTEXT WINDOW MANAGEMENT

> CRITICAL: This section ensures agents work effectively across multiple context windows.

### Session Start Protocol

Every session MUST begin by reading the progress file:

```bash
# 1. Get your bearings
pwd
ls -la

# 2. Read progress file for current agent
cat working/WORKING.md

# 3. Read global logs for context
cat logs/LOGS.md | head -100

# 4. Check for any incidents since last session
cat incidents/INCIDENTS.md | head -50
```

### Session End Protocol

Before ending ANY session, you MUST:

```bash
# 1. Update WORKING.md with current status
#    - What you completed
#    - What remains
#    - Any blockers

# 2. Commit changes to git
git add -A
git commit -m "agent:developer-experience: $(date -u +%Y%m%d%S) --%H%M {summary}"

# 3. Update LOGS.md
#    Log what you did, result, and next action
```

### Progress Tracking

The WORKING.md file is your single source of truth:

```
## Agent: developer-experience (Desk)

### Current Session
- Started: {ISO timestamp}
- Task: {what you're working on}

### Completed This Session
- {item 1}
- {item 2}

### Remaining Tasks
- {item 1}
- {item 2}

### Blockers
- {blocker if any}

### Next Action
{what the next session should do}
```

### Context Conservation Rules

| Rule | Why |
|------|-----|
| Work on ONE task at a time | Prevents context overflow |
| Commit after each subtask | Enables recovery from context loss |
| Update WORKING.md frequently | Next agent knows state |
| NEVER skip session end protocol | Loses all progress |
| Keep summaries concise | Fits in context |

### Context Warning Signs

If you see these, RESTART the session:
- Token count > 80% of limit
- Repetitive tool calls without progress
- Losing track of original task
- "One more thing" syndrome

### Emergency Context Recovery

If context is getting full:
1. STOP immediately
2. Commit current progress to git
3. Update WORKING.md with exact state
4. End session (let next agent pick up)
5. NEVER continue and risk losing work

---

## 7. AZURE RESOURCES FOR DEVELOPERS (ARO)

### Azure Container Registry (ACR)

```bash
# List ACR instances
az acr list -g ${RG} -o table

# Get login server
az acr show -n ${ACR_NAME} --query loginServer

# Build and push image
az acr build -t ${ACR_NAME}.azurecr.io/${APP}:${TAG} -f Dockerfile .

# Create repository
az acr repository create --name ${ACR_NAME} --image ${APP}:${TAG}

# List images
az acr repository list -n ${ACR_NAME} -o table

# Get pull credentials
az acr credential show -n ${ACR_NAME}
```

### Azure Database for PostgreSQL/MySQL

```bash
# Create PostgreSQL server
az postgres flexible-server create \
  --name ${DB_NAME} \
  --resource-group ${RG} \
  --sku-name Standard_B1ms \
  --tier Burstable

# Get connection string
az postgres flexible-server show-connection-string \
  --name ${DB_NAME} \
  --admin-user ${ADMIN_USER}

# Configure firewall
az postgres flexible-server firewall-rule create \
  --name ${DB_NAME} \
  --rule-name allow-access \
  --start-ip-address 0.0.0.0 \
  --end-ip-address 255.255.255.255
```

### Azure Key Vault for Developers

```bash
# Create key vault
az keyvault create --name ${KV_NAME} --resource-group ${RG}

# Set secret
az keyvault secret set --vault-name ${KV_NAME} --name "api-key" --value "xxx"

# Get secret
az keyvault secret show --vault-name ${KV_NAME} --name "api-key" --query value

# Create access policy
az keyvault set-policy \
  --name ${KV_NAME} \
  --upn ${USER_EMAIL} \
  --secret-permissions get list
```

### Azure Storage for Developers

```bash
# Create storage account
az storage account create \
  --name ${STORAGE_NAME} \
  --resource-group ${RG} \
  --sku Standard_LRS

# Get connection string
az storage account show-connection-string \
  --name ${STORAGE_NAME} \
  --query connectionString

# Create blob container
az storage container create --name ${CONTAINER} --connection-string ${CONN_STR}
```

---

## 8. AWS RESOURCES FOR DEVELOPERS (ROSA)

### Amazon ECR

```bash
# Create ECR repository
aws ecr create-repository --repository-name ${APP} --image-tag-mutability MUTABLE

# Get login password
aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin ${ACCOUNT}.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

# Push image
docker tag ${APP}:${TAG} ${ACCOUNT}.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/${APP}:${TAG}
docker push ${ACCOUNT}.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/${APP}:${TAG}

# List images
aws ecr list-images --repository-name ${APP}

# Scan image for vulnerabilities
aws ecr start-image-scan --repository-name ${APP} --image-tag ${TAG}

# Get scan findings
aws ecr describe-image-scan-findings --repository-name ${APP} --image-tag ${TAG}
```

### AWS RDS

```bash
# Create PostgreSQL instance
aws rds create-db-instance \
  --db-instance-identifier ${DB_NAME} \
  --db-instance-class db.t3.micro \
  --engine postgres \
  --engine-version 15.3 \
  --allocated-storage 20 \
  --master-username ${ADMIN_USER} \
  --master-user-password ${PASSWORD}

# Get connection endpoint
aws rds describe-db-instances \
  --db-instance-identifier ${DB_NAME} \
  --query 'DBInstances[0].Endpoint.Address'

# Create subnet group
aws rds create-db-subnet-group \
  --db-subnet-group-name ${DB_NAME}-subnet \
  --subnet-ids ${SUBNET_IDS} \
  --description "Subnet group for ${DB_NAME}"
```

### AWS Secrets Manager for Developers

```bash
# Create secret
aws secretsmanager create-secret \
  --name "dev/${APP}/api-keys" \
  --secret-string '{"api_key":"xxx","api_secret":"yyy"}'

# Get secret
aws secretsmanager get-secret-value --secret-id "dev/${APP}/api-keys"

# Update secret
aws secretsmanager update-secret \
  --secret-id "dev/${APP}/api-keys" \
  --secret-string '{"api_key":"new_key","api_secret":"new_secret"}'
```

### AWS S3 for Developers

```bash
# Create bucket
aws s3 mb s3://${BUCKET_NAME}

# Upload file
aws s3 cp file.txt s3://${BUCKET_NAME}/

# List objects
aws s3 ls s3://${BUCKET_NAME}/

# Generate presigned URL
aws s3 presign s3://${BUCKET_NAME}/file.txt --expires-in 3600

# Enable versioning
aws s3api put-bucket-versioning \
  --bucket ${BUCKET_NAME} \
  --versioning-configuration Status=Enabled
```

---

## 12. HUMAN COMMUNICATION & ESCALATION

> Keep humans in the loop. Use Slack/Teams for async communication. Use PagerDuty for urgent escalation.

### Communication Channels

| Channel | Use For | Response Time |
|---------|---------|---------------|
| Slack | Namespace requests, onboarding | < 1 hour |
| MS Teams | Namespace requests, onboarding | < 1 hour |
| PagerDuty | Production namespace issues | Immediate |

### Slack/MS Teams Message Templates

#### Approval Request (Namespace/Resource)

```json
{
  "text": "🎯 *Agent Action Required - DevEx*",
  "blocks": [
    {
      "type": "section",
      "text": {
        "type": "mrkdwn",
        "text": "*Approval Request from Desk (Developer Experience)*"
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "section",
      "fields": [
        {"type": "mrkdwn", "text": "*Type:*\n{request_type}"},
        {"type": "mrkdwn", "text": "*Target:*\n{namespace/team}"},
        {"type": "mrkdwn", "text": "*Risk:*\n{risk_level}"},
        {"type": "mrkdwn", "text": "*Deadline:*\n{response_deadline}"}
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "section",
      "text": {
        "type": "mrkdwn",
        "text": "*Request Details:*\n```{request_details}```"
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "actions",
      "elements": [
        {
          "type": "button",
          "text": {"type": "plain_text", "text": "✅ Approve"},
          "style": "primary",
          "action_id": "approve_{request_id}"
        },
        {
          "type": "button",
          "text": {"type": "plain_text", "text": "❌ Reject"},
          "style": "danger",
          "action_id": "reject_{request_id}"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```

#### Onboarding Complete

```json
{
  "text": "✅ *Desk - Onboarding Complete*",
  "blocks": [
    {
      "type": "section",
      "text": {
        "type": "mrkdwn",
        "text": "*Team {team_name} has been onboarded*"
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "section",
      "fields": [
        {"type": "mrkdwn", "text": "*Namespace:*\n{namespace}"},
        {"type": "mrkdwn", "text": "*Resources Created:*\n{resources}"}
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```

### PagerDuty Integration

```bash
curl -X POST 'https://events.pagerduty.com/v2/enqueue' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "routing_key": "$PAGERDUTY_ROUTING_KEY",
    "event_action": "trigger",
    "payload": {
      "summary": "[Desk] {issue_summary}",
      "severity": "{critical|error|warning}",
      "source": "desk-developer-experience",
      "custom_details": {
        "agent": "Desk",
        "namespace": "{namespace}",
        "issue": "{issue_details}"
      }
    },
    "client": "cluster-agent-swarm"
  }'
```

### Escalation Flow

1. Namespace/resource request → Send Slack/Teams approval request
2. Wait 15 minutes for response
3. No response → Send reminder
4. Still no response → Trigger PagerDuty for HIGH priority
5. Execute or log rejection

### Response Timeouts

| Priority | Slack/Teams Wait | PagerDuty Escalation After |
|----------|------------------|---------------------------|
| CRITICAL | 5 minutes | 10 minutes total |
| HIGH | 15 minutes | 30 minutes total |
| MEDIUM | 30 minutes | No escalation |

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## Helper Scripts