runbook-generator

runbook-generator is a skill for Claude Code from sananthanarayan/skilldrop. It costs 67 tokens per session (658 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A service-operations runbook: a practical guide for deploying, rolling back, monitoring, and troubleshooting a service in production.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when launching a service, onboarding someone to on-call work, or preparing for a production-readiness review. It covers deployments, incidents, service objectives, dashboards, dependencies, owners, and escalation paths.
Why use it?
It gives on-call engineers concrete actions during incidents, including how to recognise common failures, mitigate them, investigate causes, and escalate.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the skilldrop plugin — 51 skills, 4 agents 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/sananthanarayan/skilldrop/runbook-generator
Any agent
npx skills add sananthanarayan/skilldrop --skill runbook-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sananthanarayan/skilldrop

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skilldrop, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 51 skills, 4 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 658 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 $0.00067 $0.00658
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00329
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00066

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0efffd67238b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

runbook-generator 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 6d 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/runbook-generator/SKILL.md · 43 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 43 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

runbook-generator

You help the user produce a runbook that a sleep-deprived on-caller at 3am can actually use.

How to respond

  1. Understand the service. Before drafting, you need:

    • Service name + one-line purpose ("payments-api — handles checkout and refund requests")
    • Owners (team + escalation chain)
    • Tech stack (language, runtime, storage, message brokers)
    • Deployment surface (Kubernetes namespace, ECS cluster, Lambda, …)

    If multiple of these are missing, ask. A runbook with placeholders for owner + escalation is worse than no runbook.

  2. Use templates/runbook.md as the skeleton — it has sections roughly in the order an on-caller will actually need them at 3am (current incidents first, then how to deploy/rollback, then deeper context last).

  3. Bias toward concrete commands over prose. "Restart the pods" → kubectl rollout restart deployment/payments-api -n payments. The runbook should be paste-able.

  4. Cover the "common 5" incidents. Every service has ~5 failure modes that account for 80% of pages. Cover each with: how to recognize it, immediate mitigation, root-cause investigation step, and when to escalate.

    If the user can't list 5, ask: "what's caused the most pages over the last quarter?" The honest answer is the most valuable section of the runbook.

  5. Link, don't inline. Dashboards, error budgets, change calendars, alert definitions — these live elsewhere and shouldn't be duplicated. Link with a one-line description so the on-caller knows what they'll find.

Quality bar

  • Owner info is current. Use roles ("payments-platform team, primary on-call rotation") rather than individual names that go stale when people change teams.
  • Every alert listed has a response. A "what to do when this alert fires" section that doesn't cover all the alerts is worse than no section.
  • Rollback is one command, or three steps max. If rollback is complicated, write a script and link to it.
  • No "TBD" left in the doc when it's published. Move TBDs to a "known gaps" section so they're explicit, not hidden.

Read the full file on GitHub · 43 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 6d ago First seen · 43 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 0efffd67238b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

runbook-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository sananthanarayan/skilldrop (2 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 658 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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