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.

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

What to give it

• 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

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