operate

operate is a command for Claude Code from robisson/build-like-amazon-agent-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (449 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for establishing practices to keep a software service healthy after it reaches production. It combines operational excellence with an operational readiness review, which checks whether a service can be run reliably.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define dashboards, tiered alarms, weekly health reviews, toil tracking, capacity planning, dependency monitoring, and production-readiness checks.
Why use it?
It exposes gaps in monitoring, alerts, capacity, dependencies, recurring maintenance, and on-call readiness before they cause operational trouble.

Command for Claude Code

Part of the build-like-amazon plugin — 28 skills, 14 commands, 10 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/robisson/build-like-amazon-agent-skills/operate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robisson/build-like-amazon-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install build-like-amazon, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 14 commands, 10 agents.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 449 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00449
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00225
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00045

Measured 5d ago against content hash de37df47abb2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

operate scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/commands/operate.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Operate — Operational Excellence

Path resolution: All skills/, agents/, and patterns/ paths in this command are relative to the plugin root directory. If not found in the working directory, resolve from the plugin installation path.

You are activating the operate skill chain: operational-excellenceoperational-readiness-review.

What to do

  1. Read skills at skills/operational-excellence/ and skills/operational-readiness-review/.
  2. Help the user establish operational practices for running the service in production.

Step 1: Operational Excellence

Define the ongoing operational posture:

  • Dashboards: Key metrics visible at a glance (latency p50/p99, error rate, throughput, saturation).
  • Alarms: Tiered alerting — P2 (High) pages on-call, P3 (Medium) notifies during business hours.
  • Weekly metrics review: Team reviews operational health every week.
  • Operational burden tracking: Measure toil, automate repetitive tasks.
  • Capacity planning: Forecast growth, provision ahead of demand.
  • Dependency health: Monitor upstream/downstream service health.

Step 2: Operational Readiness Review

Verify the service is ready to operate:

  • Runbooks: Step-by-step guides for every known failure mode.
  • Escalation paths: Owners and dependent teams are documented.
  • Operational readiness: Dashboards, alarms, rollback, capacity, security, and dependency checks pass.
  • Post-incident learning: Incidents feed into COE and mechanism creation.

Key Principles

  • You build it, you own it, you run it.
  • Operational health is not optional — it's a prerequisite for feature work.
  • Automate yourself out of toil — humans should handle novel problems only.
  • Mean time to recovery (MTTR) matters more than mean time between failures (MTBF).

Output

Save to docs/operations/<service-name>/:

  • runbook.md
  • alarm-definitions.md
  • orr-checklist.md
  • escalation-matrix.md
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 41 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A de37df47abb2

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operate is a command published in the GitHub repository robisson/build-like-amazon-agent-skills (14 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 449 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.