# The State of AI SRE

> A practical map for teams evaluating AI SRE
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> Markdown version of https://cleric.ai/resources/reports/the-state-of-ai-sre for AI agents and LLMs. Site index: https://cleric.ai/llms.txt

May 13, 2026

Engineering leaders are asking sharper questions about AI SRE: Should we build this ourselves with Claude Code? Where do incident management and observability platforms fit? What can dedicated AI SRE platforms actually do? How should teams compare Cleric, Resolve, and Traversal?

Cleric commissioned an outside research team to map the landscape and give teams one practical place to evaluate the category, the tradeoffs, and the proof points that matter before they trust an agent in production.

Inside the report:

- Why AI SRE has become a real evaluation category
- How production work creates the need for AI SRE
- Where incident management and observability platforms fit
- What it takes to build your own AI SRE
- How Cleric, Resolve, and Traversal compare

The full report is free with a work email at https://cleric.ai/resources/reports/the-state-of-ai-sre.