deploy-runbook

deploy-runbook is a skill for Claude Code from rpraharaj/forward-deployed-engineer. It costs 110 tokens per session (2,584 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A step-by-step deployment procedure that records checks before release, the order of actions, what to watch afterward, and when and how to undo the change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for a first or risky deployment, releases involving database changes or feature flags, or work that requires several components or approvals. It gives another person a procedure they can follow under pressure.
Why use it?
It prevents deployment knowledge and rollback decisions from living only in one engineer’s memory, especially during an incident or after-hours release.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the fde-core plugin — 30 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for a first or risky deployment, releases involving database changes or feature flags, or work that requires several components or approvals. It gives another person a procedure they can follow under pressure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rpraharaj/forward-deployed-engineer/deploy-runbook
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 rpraharaj/forward-deployed-engineer --skill deploy-runbook
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rpraharaj/forward-deployed-engineer

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fde-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 30 skills.

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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,584 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 $0.00110 $0.02584
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.01292
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00517
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00258

Measured 7d ago against content hash a3d1f2f952ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deploy-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 7d 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.

fde-core/skills/deploy-runbook/SKILL.md · 210 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 210 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deploy runbook

The procedure someone else can execute under pressure.

Why this exists

Deployment knowledge in large organizations tends to live in one engineer's head, reconstructed each time from memory and a scroll through last quarter's chat history. That works until the deploy happens at 11pm on a Friday, or the engineer is on leave, or the person executing is a release manager who has never seen this service.

There's a second, sharper reason. A rollback plan that has never been executed is a hypothesis. The most common discovery during a real incident is that the migration wasn't reversible, or the rollback takes forty minutes, or it requires a permission the person on call doesn't have. All three are cheap to find out in advance and expensive to find out at the time.

When this applies

  • First deploy of anything new or risky
  • A change board or auditor needs a documented procedure
  • The deploy path exists only in someone's head
  • Anything with a migration, a flag, or coordination between components

When it doesn't

  • Routine deploys through a mature, well-understood pipeline — don't add ceremony to something that works
  • Local or throwaway environments
  • A migration with a cutover window — that's cutover-plan, which is a bigger artifact

Prerequisites

  • .fde/06-blast-radius-*.md — determines how careful the procedure must be
  • .fde/07-verification.md — what's proven and what's a gap
  • .fde/01-environment.md — the deploy commands, usually discoverable from CI
  • .fde/08b-change-control.md — who may press the button, freeze windows, CAB ref. If missing, offer change-control-navigation rather than inventing SoD.

Read the CI/CD configuration before writing anything. The existing pipeline is the real deploy path, and a runbook that contradicts it is worse than none.

A cutover window is cutover-plan (fde-migration). The observation window after a routine deploy is post-deploy-watch (fde-operate). If those packs are not installed, keep rollback and watch sections in this runbook and say so.

Read the full file on GitHub · 210 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. 7d ago First seen · 210 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A a3d1f2f952ec

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deploy-runbook is a skill published in the GitHub repository rpraharaj/forward-deployed-engineer (6 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 2,584 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 2026-08-31.