runbook-writer

runbook-writer is a skill for Claude Code from cnfeat/top-pm-skills. It costs 73 tokens per session (1,413 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An operational runbook is a step-by-step guide for running, deploying, maintaining, or recovering a service. This add-on writes one for an engineer who may be unfamiliar with the system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document deployments, maintenance tasks, disaster recovery, or responses to specific incidents.
Why use it?
It turns scattered operational knowledge into instructions that can be followed during routine work or an incident. It also records rollback steps and required system details.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the pm-engineering plugin — 37 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to document deployments, maintenance tasks, disaster recovery, or responses to specific incidents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/runbook-writer
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.

Any agent
npx skills add cnfeat/top-pm-skills --skill runbook-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cnfeat/top-pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,413 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00073 $0.01413
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00707
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00283
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00141

Measured 9d ago against content hash d13286329456, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

runbook-writer 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 9d 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.

参考skill/pm-claude-skills-main/pm-claude-skills-main/plugins/pm-engineering/skills/runbook-writer/SKILL.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

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


Runbook: [Runbook Title] Service: [Service Name] Type: [Deployment / Incident Response / Maintenance / DR] Last Updated: [Insert today's date in YYYY-MM-DD format] Owner: [Team or person] Severity: [P1 / P2 / P3 — if incident-type]


Overview

What this runbook covers: [1–2 sentences on the scenario this runbook handles]

When to use this runbook:

  • [Specific trigger condition 1 — e.g. PagerDuty alert: high-error-rate-payment-service]
  • [Specific trigger condition 2 — e.g. Deploy needed after PR merged to main]

Estimated time to complete: [X minutes / X–Y minutes depending on outcome]

Impact if not completed correctly: [e.g. Payment processing degraded / Data loss risk / Users locked out]


Prerequisites

Access required:

  • [System/tool access — e.g. AWS Console: production-account]
  • [Credential — e.g. vault read secret/payment-service]
  • [VPN / bastion access if needed]

Tools required:

  • [Tool name and version — e.g. kubectl v1.28+]
  • [CLI or dashboard name]

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 156 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A d13286329456

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runbook-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository cnfeat/top-pm-skills (48 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,413 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-09-03.

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