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)

Output Format