Operational Readiness Review

Operational Readiness Review is a skill for Claude Code from robisson/build-like-amazon-agent-skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (3,005 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist-based review of whether a new service, feature, or major change can be safely operated in production. It covers monitoring, alerts, runbooks, on-call support, scaling, security, deployment safety, cost, and dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before launching services or major features, enabling general availability, changing architecture, migrating traffic, or accepting production traffic in a new region. A senior or principal engineer reviews the completed assessment.
Why use it?
A feature can work in testing yet still be difficult to operate when something goes wrong. This review finds those gaps before launch and requires evidence that the operational requirements are met.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it before launching services or major features, enabling general availability, changing architecture, migrating traffic, or accepting production traffic in a new region. A senior or principal engineer reviews the completed assessment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/robisson/build-like-amazon-agent-skills/operational-readiness-review
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 robisson/build-like-amazon-agent-skills --skill operational-readiness-review
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.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,005 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 $0.00043 $0.03005
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01503
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00601
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00300

Measured 11d ago against content hash dcacaf82ad5c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Operational Readiness Review 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 11d 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/operational-readiness-review/SKILL.md · 257 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 257 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

An Operational Readiness Review (ORR) is a structured self-assessment that a team completes before launching a new service, feature, or significant change to production. It is a mandatory gate—nothing ships to production without a passing ORR.

The ORR is not a meeting with approvers. It is a checklist of operational requirements that the team fills out, providing evidence for each item. A senior engineer or principal reviews the completed ORR and either approves or identifies gaps. The ORR does not test whether the feature works—it tests whether the team can operate the feature in production when things go wrong.

The philosophy: if you can't operate it, you can't launch it. Writing code is 10% of the job. Operating it for years is the other 90%.

When to Use

  • Before launching a new service or microservice
  • Before enabling a feature flag for general availability
  • Before major architectural changes (new database, new dependency, new region)
  • Before migrating traffic from one system to another
  • Before accepting production traffic in a new AWS region
  • Before any change that significantly alters operational characteristics

Agent Persona

Load agents/ops-bar-raiser.md when reviewing ORR evidence. Use it to verify observability, alarms, runbooks, deployment safety, rollback capability, capacity, dependencies, and whether the team can operate the system under pressure.

Amazon Context

The ORR originated from Amazon's experience launching services that "worked" but couldn't be operated. Teams would build features, demonstrate them in dev, and ship to production—only to discover at 2 AM that nobody knew how to restart the service, what constituted "healthy," or who to contact when the database filled up.

Amazon's ORR process has prevented thousands of operational incidents by catching gaps before they become 2 AM pages. The checklist has evolved over 15+ years from hard-won lessons. Each item exists because a team skipped it and suffered the consequences.

Read the full file on GitHub · 257 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. 11d ago First seen · 257 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A dcacaf82ad5c

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Operational Readiness Review is a skill published in the GitHub repository robisson/build-like-amazon-agent-skills (15 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 3,005 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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