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Engineering Runbook

Creates a copy-ready on-call runbook page for engineering services

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9,376
Licence
Apache-2.0
Files
2 files

What it does

This skill teaches an AI agent to produce a single-page engineering runbook for on-call engineers. The page covers a service overview with topology and dependencies, an alerts table with severity, thresholds and runbook links, dashboard link cards, common operational commands in copyable code blocks, the on-call rotation, and an incident response checklist. It is a template and layout guide for generating a document, not a tool that connects to your systems.

Great for

  • SRE and on-call engineers who need a quick reference page for a service
  • Teams that want a consistent runbook layout for incidents
  • Engineers documenting alerts, dashboards and operational commands

Skip it if

  • Teams that need live data: the skill does not pull real alert thresholds, dashboards or rotation schedules, so the agent must be given that information. Invented values would be dangerous during an incident.
  • Anyone expecting automated remediation: the skill only produces a document and does not run commands on your infrastructure.

Try asking

  • “Create an engineering runbook for our payments service with alerts, dashboards and restart commands”
  • “Make an on-call runbook page for the search API including an incident response checklist”
  • “Generate a copyable operations runbook for our Kubernetes ingress layer”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Engineering RunbookInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 2 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.

    eng-runbook.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip eng-runbook.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip eng-runbook.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Supply real service names, alert thresholds, dashboard URLs and on-call names so the page is accurate rather than placeholder text.
  • Always review generated commands before running them in production, especially restart or delete operations.
  • Ask for a specific section, such as only the alerts table, if you need a smaller output.

What's inside

  • example.html
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from nexu-io/html-anything under the Apache-2.0 licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.

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