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runbook from qa-aman/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add qa-aman/claude-skills/runbook@git:20260303.ca0168fPins git:20260303.ca0168f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- qa-aman/claude-skills
- Path
skills/by-role/devops/runbook/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
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- Latest version
- git:20260303.ca0168f, committed Mar 3, 2026
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- Repository stars
- 21
- License
- MIT
Write an operational runbook. Use when the user says "write a runbook", "on-call documentation", "how to operate this service", "alert runbook", "troubleshooting guide for ops", "what to do when this alert fires", "operational procedures", or needs to document how to run, troubleshoot, or respond to a service - even if they don't explicitly say "runbook".
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
## Overview
Based on the **Google SRE Book**. A runbook is the operational contract for a service: how to start it, stop it, diagnose it, and recover it. Google SRE's standard: a runbook should be executable by an on-call engineer who has never seen the service before. If it requires tribal knowledge, it's not a runbook - it's an assumption.
The test: can an on-call engineer follow this runbook at 3am with a degraded service, no time to research, and adrenaline affecting their cognition? If not, it's not operational-grade.
## Workflow
### Step 1: Write the service overview
```
Service: [your service]
Owner team: [your team]
On-call rotation: [who gets paged]
SLO: [availability target, e.g. 99.9% uptime]
Dependencies: [upstream services this depends on]
Dependents: [downstream services that depend on this]
Dashboards: [links]
Logs: [how to access]
Alerts: [link to alerting config]
```
### Step 2: Document steady-state operations
What does normal look like?
**Health check:**
```bash
# Command to verify the service is healthy
curl https://[your service]/health
# Expected response: {"status": "ok", "version": "x.y.z"}
```
**Key metrics (normal ranges):**
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How to install
mdr add qa-aman/claude-skills/runbook@sha256:05607c889f9b302dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260303.ca0168f, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Mar 3, 2026.
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Source
qa-aman/claude-skills · 21 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6vr7b4prqgcg64za GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=qa-aman/claude-skills/runbook GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/05607c889f9b302ddc9d10d0a20bc5a51437207d3771816f68d53e0aef405596
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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