Stop Grepping, Start Reasoning: Skill-Based Agentic SRE ๐Ÿš€

Codemotion Milan 2026

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 2026-10-20itMilan, Italy

Status: submitted

Letโ€™s be honest: debugging production at scale is manual labor. ๐Ÿซ  At Google, we decided making SREs act like human search engines was a bug, not a feature. Enter the Agentic SRE Extensionโ€”a skill-based framework that lives in your terminal and knows its way around Kubernetes. ๐Ÿš€ In this deep dive, Iโ€™ll show you how we use modular skills and MCP to chain diagnostic tools, analyze metric regressions, and execute safe mitigations without "deleted production" anxiety. ๐Ÿ”ฅ Weโ€™ll dissect the "Outage Investigator" agent's logic loop, see it draft a technical postmortem in seconds, and discuss why we built this as a portable framework whose skills can be leveraged by any modern AI harness. Youโ€™ll leave with the code to wire up your own Kubernetes stack and let the agent's skills do the heavy lifting while you drink espresso. โ˜•๏ธ No fluff, no 101s. Just AI agents, specialized skills, and less toil.

Stop Grepping, Start Reasoning: Skill-Based Agentic SRE ๐Ÿš€