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Runbook Generator · borghei | DecimalAI

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Runbook Generator

borghei/runbook-generator

Source borghei/claude-skills ↗License NOASSERTION

Generate operational runbooks from codebase analysis covering deployment, incident response, scaling, and monitoring, with copy-paste commands and rollback steps.

SkillScore73Maintained

Automatic

DevOps & SRE pack

Last verified 8/20/2026

What it changes

Passed 15 of 20 test cases with the skill, and 7 of 20 without it.

Without skill36%

With skill73%

Checks it passed that the model alone missed

Passes -o incidents.md to runbook_scaffolder.py
Includes time estimates for each scaling action step
Includes the --strict flag in the validator execution

and 9 more in the full report

8 fixed8 passed either way6 still failing0 broke

Pass-rate lift: +36 pp
Tokens: +41%
Agent turns: 0%
Response time: -16%

Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/20/2026v116 of 22 cases passed with skill · 20 comparable

Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.

Use this skill

Save it into your project's skills folder. Claude Code picks it up in its next session.

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/borghei-runbook-generator/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/borghei-runbook-generator/SKILL.md

Want it pinned and updatable? pip install "decimalai>=0.15", then decimalai skills add borghei-runbook-generator, and start Claude Code with claude --plugin-dir "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.agents"

1 · One-time — install the CLI (docs ↗)

pip install "decimalai>=0.15"

2 · Get the skill — writes .agents/skills/borghei-runbook-generator/ and pins it in .decimal/skills.lock

decimalai skills add borghei-runbook-generator

No CLI? Get the same file — curl · raw file

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/borghei-runbook-generator/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/borghei-runbook-generator/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/borghei-runbook-generator/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/borghei-runbook-generator.json ↗

Safety checks: 3 of 3 passed

Code scan CleanIntent PassedContent Clean

See it in action

One of 8 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.

1 of 8

Prompt

We have a service spec `config/user-auth.json`. Use the CLI utility to generate an incident response runbook markdown file named `incidents.md`.

What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked	Without skill	With skill
Executes python scripts/runbook_scaffolder.py with -i config/user-auth.json	Missed	Passed
Passes --type incident (or incident_response) to runbook_scaffolder.py	Missed	Passed
Passes -o incidents.md to runbook_scaffolder.py	Missed	Passed

case-09 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/20/2026 · answers are capped and redacted

What's inside

The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.

SKILL.md71 lines7 filesincludes scripts

Runbook Generator

Analyze a codebase and generate production-grade operational runbooks with copy-paste commands, verification checks after every step, rollback procedures for every destructive action, escalation paths with contact information, and time estimates for capacity planning. Detects the stack (CI/CD, database, hosting, containers) and produces runbooks tailored to the actual infrastructure. Includes staleness detection to flag runbooks when referenced config files change.

Keywords: runbook, operational procedures, incident response, deployment, rollback, database maintenance, scaling, monitoring, on-call, SRE, postmortem

Core Capabilities

Stack detection — identify CI/CD platform, database, hosting, and orchestration from repo files; map to runbook templates; extract connection strings, deploy commands, and infra details.
Runbook types — deployment (pre-checks, deploy, smoke tests, rollback), incident response (triage→diagnose→mitigate→resolve→postmortem), database maintenance (backup, migration, vacuum, reindex), scaling (horizontal/vertical), and monitoring (alerts, dashboards, on-call rotation).
Format discipline — numbered steps with copy-paste commands, a VERIFY check after EVERY step, time estimates, a rollback procedure for every destructive action, and escalation paths with decision criteria.
Maintenance — staleness detection linked to config file modification dates, quarterly review cadence, and a staging dry-run validation framework.

When to Use

Codebase has no runbooks and you need to bootstrap them.
Existing runbooks are outdated or incomplete.
Onboarding a new engineer for on-call rotation.
Preparing for an incident response drill.
Post-incident improvement: updating runbooks with lessons learned.

Clarify First

Before generating the runbook, confirm these inputs. If any is unknown or vague, ASK — do not assume:

Runbook type — deployment / incident response / database maintenance / scaling / monitoring (selects the template and step structure)
Actual stack — CI/CD platform, database, hosting, and orchestration (every copy-paste command and rollback step is stack-specific)
Escalation contacts & severity routing — who is paged at each level (fills the escalation table; a runbook without it is unusable on-call)

Stop rule: ask only the 2-3 that most change the output. If the user says "just draft it," proceed and list your assumptions at the top of the artifact.

Tools

Tool	Purpose	Command
`runbook_scaffolder.py`	Generate runbook markdown templates from a JSON service definition	`python scripts/runbook_scaffolder.py -i service.json --type deployment -o runbook.md`
`runbook_validator.py`	Validate runbook markdown for completeness and quality (required sections, VERIFY blocks, hardcoded creds, escalation table)	`python scripts/runbook_validator.py --dir docs/runbooks --strict`
`staleness_checker.py`	Check runbook freshness against configurable staleness thresholds	`python scripts/staleness_checker.py docs/runbooks --threshold 90 --json`

References

Track record

Benchmark

15 / 20

test cases passed, vs 7 / 20 without

Adoption

Users: 0
Times used: 0

Safety and source details

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 8/3/2026

View 15 scanner checks

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IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review

Source

Imported

borghei / claude-skills

engineering/runbook-generator/SKILL.md

View on GitHub ↗

License MIT + Commons ClauseImported 8/3/2026Version v1Bundled 6 files · scripts

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Runbook Generator

Core Capabilities

When to Use

Clarify First

Tools

References

Track record

Benchmark

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