runbook

runbook is a skill for Claude Code from testdouble/han. It costs 126 tokens per session (3,794 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating or updating a runbook: a practical guide for handling a real alert, incident, recurring scheduled task, or known failure on a live service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document on-call procedures, incident responses, scheduled maintenance, and known production failure modes.
Why use it?
It turns operational knowledge into repeatable steps that responders can follow during maintenance or service problems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions AGENTS.md.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the han-documentation plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to document on-call procedures, incident responses, scheduled maintenance, and known production failure modes.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add testdouble/han
Claude Code
/plugin install han-documentation

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install han-documentation, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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Per session 126 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,794 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 $0.00126 $0.03794
Opus 5.5 $0.00050 $0.01518
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00759
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00379

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1fd29933594a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 1mo 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.

han-documentation/skills/runbook/SKILL.md · 241 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 241 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create or Update Runbook

Operating Principles

  • YAGNI applies to runbooks themselves. Apply the evidence-based YAGNI rule from ../../references/yagni-rule.md. A runbook is worth writing only when the scenario is grounded in something real: an alert that has actually fired, a documented incident, a recurring task that exists, or a known failure mode on a service that receives production traffic. Runbooks for hypothetical alerts, "best practice says we should have one," or "we'll need this someday" are YAGNI candidates and the runbook should be deferred until the scenario actually occurs. The canonical anti-pattern from project history: Sentry runbooks for staging-only Sentry where data isn't reaching production — alerts that will never fire because no signal flows. The user always wins; the rule's job is to make the cost of speculative runbooks visible.
  • The companion evidence rule applies to the runbook's supporting evidence. Apply the evidence rule from ../../references/evidence-rule.md to the citations that ground the scenario: name the trust class of each piece of evidence (alert history, incident report, on-call rotation pattern); cite the actual artifact (dashboard URL, ticket ID, log query) rather than paraphrased recollection; and surface single-source claims as such rather than presenting them as settled.
  • One runbook per invocation. The skill produces a single runbook file. Multi-runbook batches conflate scope; rerun the skill per scenario.
  • Imperative commands with expected output. The template requires every step to show the exact command and what success looks like. Prose paragraphs in place of commands are an authoring failure the skill prompts against.
  • Staleness is the failure mode. The template requires owner, last-validated, last-edited, and a change-history entry so decay is visible rather than hidden. The skill does not enforce a review cadence — that is a team-level workflow concern — but the metadata fields make the cadence auditable.
  • Readability standard. Source the standard by invoking han-communication:readability-guidance and apply it as you write the runbook. Hold its default audience frame: a capable reader who did not do this work and lacks the author's context — here, the operator following the runbook during an incident.

Read the full file on GitHub · 241 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. 1mo ago First seen · 241 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A 1fd29933594a

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runbook is a skill published in the GitHub repository testdouble/han (323 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 3,794 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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