operational-statelisted
Install: claude install-skill pitimon/8-habit-ai-dev
# Operational State
**Habits**: H1 (Be Proactive) + H5 (Seek First to Understand) + H8 (Find Your Voice) | **Anti-pattern**: treating every operational signal as either "fix now" or "close"
## When to Use
- An alert, daily-fix item, health check, or ops finding needs classification before action.
- The system is currently healthy but the signal recurs or could become noisy.
- A pod/service says Running, but a mount path, dependency, endpoint, or user-visible check is unhealthy.
- Ownership is unclear and the next step may be AppDev, Registry, vendor, or another team handoff.
- A known issue should stay visible without counting as an active incident.
- You need to distinguish report hygiene from a cluster/service mutation.
Use this before `/deploy-guide` for operational mutations, before `/post-mortem` for fixed incidents, and before `/management-talk` when leadership needs state wording.
## When to Skip
- The finding already has a validated root cause, approved fix, rollback plan, and current impact; go to `/deploy-guide` or `/post-mortem`.
- The work is only a wording/status update with no operational ambiguity.
- The user explicitly asks for an incident RCA after a validated fix; use `/post-mortem`.
- The problem is a hard unknown-root-cause bug; use `/diagnose` first.
## State Decision Process
1. **Capture the signal**: symptom, source, timestamp, environment, owner candidate, and user/customer impact if any.
2. **Check current reality**: fresh status, logs/events/