launch-runbook

launch-runbook is a skill for Claude Code from rampstackco/claude-skills. It costs 127 tokens per session (1,769 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A runbook for launching a website, product, or major release. It organizes pre-launch checks, the go-live process, DNS changes, monitoring after launch, and rollback steps if something goes wrong.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to coordinate launch windows, assign responsibilities, plan DNS cutovers, monitor the release, and document rollback criteria.
Why use it?
It gives the team a shared checklist for a time-sensitive launch and defines how to recover when the release must be reversed.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the rampstack-skills plugin — 103 skills 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 skills/rampstackco/claude-skills/launch-runbook
Any agent
npx skills add rampstackco/claude-skills --skill launch-runbook
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rampstack-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 103 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,769 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 5.1 $0.00127 $0.01769
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00885
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00354
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00177

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8d1f7b18667d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

launch-runbook 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 2d 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.

skills/launch-runbook/SKILL.md · 237 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 237 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Launch Runbook

Plan and execute the launch of a website, product, or major release. The runbook is the document everyone uses on launch day. Stack-agnostic.

This skill is for the launch event. For pre-launch QA, use qa-testing. For post-launch incident handling, use incident-response.


When to use

  • Launching a new website or major redesign
  • Migrating from one platform to another
  • Releasing a major product or feature
  • Coordinating cross-team launches
  • Building a runbook for a recurring deploy

When NOT to use

  • Pre-launch testing (use qa-testing)
  • Post-launch incident response (use incident-response)
  • After-launch retrospective (use after-action-report)

Required inputs

  • The launch scope (what's being launched)
  • The launch window (date, time, duration)
  • The team (roles, on-call rotation)
  • The rollback criteria (when to abort)
  • The communication plan (who tells whom what, when)

The framework: 4 phases

A launch has four phases. The runbook covers all four.

Phase 1: Pre-launch (T-30 days to T-1 hour)

Verify everything is ready before the launch window.

T-30 days:

  • Final scope locked
  • Cross-team commitments confirmed
  • Pre-launch QA scheduled
  • Comms plan drafted

T-7 days:

  • Pre-launch QA complete
  • All critical and major issues resolved
  • Performance baseline measured
  • Rollback procedures documented and tested
  • DNS TTL lowered (if DNS change is part of launch)

T-1 day:

  • Final go/no-go meeting
  • Roles confirmed
  • Communication channels set up
  • Backup of current production state

T-1 hour:

  • Team assembled in shared communication channel
  • Tools and access verified
  • Final smoke test on staging

Phase 2: Cutover (T-0)

The actual launch. Sequenced steps with owners and verifications.

Standard cutover steps:

  1. Announce start to internal team
  2. Enable maintenance mode (if applicable)
  3. Run final database migrations (if applicable)
  4. Deploy code to production
  5. Verify deploy completed without errors
  6. Run smoke tests on production
  7. DNS cutover (if applicable)
  8. Verify DNS propagation
  9. Disable maintenance mode
  10. Run full smoke tests on production
  11. Announce launch to internal team
  12. Begin monitoring window

Read the full file on GitHub · 237 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 237 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 8d1f7b18667d

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launch-runbook is a skill published in the GitHub repository rampstackco/claude-skills (817 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 1,769 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.