version: "1.0.1" name: gh-incidents description: | List recent and active GitHub incidents from githubstatus.com. Shows incident history, root causes, and resolution timelines. Use when the user says: "github incidents", "github outage history", "what happened on github", "recent github issues", "github downtime" metadata: verb: list

GitHub Incidents Skill

Retrieve recent and active incidents from the GitHub Status API.

Steps

1. Fetch Unresolved Incidents

curl -s https://www.githubstatus.com/api/v2/incidents/unresolved.json

For each unresolved incident, extract:

• name -- incident title
• status -- investigating, identified, monitoring, resolved
• impact -- none, minor, major, critical
• incident_updates -- array of status updates with body and updated_at
• components -- affected services

2. Fetch Recent Resolved Incidents

curl -s https://www.githubstatus.com/api/v2/incidents.json

This returns the 50 most recent incidents. Filter to the last 7 days for relevance.

For each recent incident, extract:

• name
• impact
• created_at and resolved_at (to calculate duration)
• components affected
• Final update message

3. Present Active Incidents (if any)

## Active GitHub Incidents
 
### <incident name>
-**Status**: <investigating/identified/monitoring>
-**Impact**: <minor/major/critical>
-**Affected**: <component list>
-**Started**: <created_at>
-**Duration so far**: <calculated>
 
**Timeline**:
-<timestamp>: <update body>
-<timestamp>: <update body>

4. Present Recent Incident History

## Recent Incidents (last 7 days)
 
| Date | Incident | Impact | Duration | Services |
|------|----------|--------|----------|----------|
| <date> | <name> | minor | 23 min | Actions |
| <date> | <name> | major | 2h 15m | API, Git | 

If no incidents in the last 7 days, report that GitHub has been stable.

5. Summary

Tell the user:

• Number of active incidents (if any) and their severity
• How many incidents in the past 7 days
• Which services have been most affected recently
• Overall reliability assessment for the week