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oncall-runbook

Write an on-call runbook for a service — covering alert definitions, escalation paths, common incident responses, and on-call handoff procedures. Use when asked to write an on-call guide, create alert runbooks, document escalation procedures, or prepare an on-call handoff document. Produces a structured on-call runbook with per-alert response procedures, escalation matrix, diagnostic commands, and handoff template.

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# On-Call Runbook Skill

Produce a complete on-call runbook for a service — giving the on-call engineer everything they need to respond confidently to alerts at 3am, without having to ask anyone for help.

A good on-call runbook reduces mean time to resolution (MTTR) by eliminating the "what do I do first?" problem. It is written for the on-call engineer who has just been paged and needs to act, not for someone calmly reading documentation.

## Where this sits — the spine's terminus

Last in the incident-response spine: **`/slo-error-budget` (frame) →
`/debugging-log-analyser` → `/incident-postmortem` → `oncall-runbook`**. It receives the
**contributing factors and action items** from `/incident-postmortem` and turns the
detection/mitigation learnings into an entry that makes the *next* responder minutes, not
hours — closing the loop so the same incident doesn't recur at full cost. *Runbook entry*,
*detection/mitigation time*, and the loop are defined once in
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