Individual skill
runbook-writer
Write an operational runbook for a service, incident type, or deployment procedure. Use when asked to write a runbook, create an ops guide, document an operational procedure, or prepare an incident response playbook. Produces a runbook with overview, prerequisites, step-by-step procedures, rollback steps, troubleshooting table, and escalation paths.
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# Runbook Writer Skill
Produces operational runbooks for services, incident types, and deployment procedures — structured so an on-call engineer who's never touched the system can follow them under pressure.
## Required Inputs
Ask for these if not provided:
- **What the runbook is for** (e.g. deploying the payment service, responding to a database failover, rotating API keys)
- **Runbook type** (Deployment / Incident Response / Maintenance / Disaster Recovery)
- **System/service name and what it does** (brief description)
- **Audience** (new on-call engineers / experienced SREs / DevOps team)
- **Tech stack** (where relevant — e.g. Kubernetes, AWS RDS, Node.js)
- **Monitoring tools** (e.g. Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, Splunk — used to name specific dashboards and alert links in the steps)
- **Key environment details** (e.g. Kubernetes cluster name, AWS account/region, relevant namespaces or resource names — paste what's relevant for exact commands)