runbook-authoring

runbook-authoring is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from orlando-japan/claude-code-setting. It costs 41 tokens per session (938 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing runbooks, which are step-by-step instructions for handling alerts and production incidents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document alert triggers, the immediate problem, stabilization commands, and checks that confirm the system has recovered.
Why use it?
It helps an on-call engineer act under pressure without needing extra context or making unstated judgment calls.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to document alert triggers, the immediate problem, stabilization commands, and checks that confirm the system has recovered.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/orlando-japan/claude-code-setting/runbook-authoring
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 orlando-japan/claude-code-setting --skill runbook-authoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/orlando-japan/claude-code-setting

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 938 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00041 $0.00938
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00469
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00094

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9fd5ecfd5b92, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

runbook-authoring scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s https://metrics.internal/api/v1/query?query='rate(auth_errors[1m])'
templates/extra/skills/runbook-authoring/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Runbook authoring

A runbook is for tired people under pressure. Everything in it must be executable without context, without thinking, without making judgment calls the author forgot to remove.

Golden rule: the reader is you, at 3am, with a hangover, paged for the first time.

What a runbook is NOT

  • A design doc.
  • A description of how the system works.
  • A narrative explaining the history of an incident.
  • A document only the author can follow.

It's a checklist with copy-pasteable commands.

Template

Every runbook has the same sections:

1. When this page fires

The alert name that triggers this runbook, the condition, and the threshold. "You got paged because X is true."

2. What's broken

One sentence. Non-abstract. "The auth service can't reach Redis and is failing logins."

3. Immediate stabilization

The first thing to do before diagnosing. Rollback, kill switch, rate limit, failover. Commands that can be copy-pasted.

# Roll back the auth service
kubectl rollout undo deployment/auth -n prod

Not "roll back the deployment." The literal command.

4. Verify stabilization

How do you know the bleeding stopped? A specific metric, a specific query, a specific page to check.

# Error rate should drop below 1% in ~2 min
curl -s https://metrics.internal/api/v1/query?query='rate(auth_errors[1m])'

5. Diagnose

Now that things are stable (even if degraded), here's how to find what's really wrong. Dashboards to open (with links), logs to search (with exact queries), common causes to check.

This section is longer and can be a decision tree: "if X, then Y."

6. Fix

Once diagnosed, common fixes with exact commands.

7. Escalation

Who to wake up if you can't resolve it in N minutes. Names, rotations, contact methods.

8. After the page

  • Where to file the incident report.
  • Postmortem expectation.
  • Links to related runbooks.

Rules

  • Copy-pasteable commands. No <your-service> placeholders. If the command needs a variable, provide a dropdown or a query to find it.
  • Dashboard and log links with the query pre-filled. Not "look at the dashboard." The literal URL with the time window.
  • One decision at a time. No "this could mean several things, consider…" — walk the reader through the decision tree.
  • Commands come with expected output. So the reader knows when it worked.
  • Test it. Walk a teammate through it. If they ask questions, add the answers to the runbook.

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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 · 102 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 9fd5ecfd5b92

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runbook-authoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository orlando-japan/claude-code-setting (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 938 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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