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Runbook Generator

  • 568 installs
  • 23.5k repo stars
  • Updated July 17, 2026
  • alirezarezvani/claude-skills

runbook-generator is a Claude Code skill that generates deployment, incident, and database maintenance runbook skeletons with rollback triggers and verification steps for developers who operationalize production systems.

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runbook-generator is a Claude skill supplying runbook templates for deployment, incident response, database maintenance, and staleness detection. Deployment runbooks include pre-deployment checks, step-by-step deploy commands with expected output, smoke tests, rollback plans with explicit triggers, and escalation notes. Incident templates define triage in the first five minutes, diagnosis via logs and metrics, mitigation, and postmortem actions. Database maintenance covers backup verification, migration sequencing with lock-risk notes, vacuum or reindex routines, and verification queries. A staleness template reminds teams to update runbooks when referenced config files change. Use it when on-call docs are missing or outdated after architecture shifts.

  • Deployment runbook: pre-checks, deploy steps, smoke tests, rollback triggers
  • Incident response: 5-minute triage, diagnosis, mitigation, postmortem actions
  • Database maintenance: backup verification, migration lock-risk, vacuum/reindex routines
  • Staleness detection hooks for Vercel, Helm, Terraform, and CI workflow files
  • Python CLI emits dated runbook markdown with owner and environment metadata

Runbook Generator by the numbers

  • 568 all-time installs (skills.sh)
  • Ranked #253 of 1,440 DevOps & CI/CD skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
  • Security screen: LOW risk (skills.sh audit)
  • Data as of Jul 31, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
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Last updatedJuly 17, 2026
Repositoryalirezarezvani/claude-skills

How do you write deployment and incident runbooks?

Generate deployment, incident, and database maintenance runbook skeletons with rollback triggers and quarterly verification steps.

Who is it for?

SREs and backend leads documenting production deploy, incident, and database procedures who need structured skeletons with rollback and verification sections.

Skip if: Greenfield prototypes with no production on-call requirements or teams that already maintain auto-generated runbooks tied to live observability data.

When should I use this skill?

The user needs deployment, incident, or database runbook templates with rollback triggers and quarterly verification steps.

What you get

Deployment, incident-response, and database maintenance runbook drafts with rollback triggers and verification checklists.

  • Deployment runbook draft
  • Incident response runbook
  • Database maintenance checklist

By the numbers

  • Includes 4 runbook template types: deployment, incident, database maintenance, staleness detection
  • Incident template specifies a first-5-minutes triage phase

Files

SKILL.mdMarkdownGitHub ↗

Runbook Generator

Tier: POWERFUL Category: Engineering Domain: DevOps / Site Reliability Engineering

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Overview

Generate operational runbooks quickly from a service name, then customize for deployment, incident response, maintenance, and rollback workflows.

Core Capabilities

  • Runbook skeleton generation from a CLI
  • Standard sections for start/stop/health/rollback
  • Structured escalation and incident handling placeholders
  • Reference templates for deployment and incident playbooks

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When to Use

  • A service has no runbook and needs a baseline immediately
  • Existing runbooks are inconsistent across teams
  • On-call onboarding requires standardized operations docs
  • You need repeatable runbook scaffolding for new services

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Quick Start

# Print runbook to stdout
python3 scripts/runbook_generator.py payments-api

# Write runbook file
python3 scripts/runbook_generator.py payments-api --owner platform --output docs/runbooks/payments-api.md

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Recommended Workflow

1. Generate the initial skeleton with scripts/runbook_generator.py. 2. Fill in service-specific commands and URLs. 3. Add verification checks and rollback triggers. 4. Dry-run in staging. 5. Store runbook in version control near service code.

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Reference Docs

  • references/runbook-templates.md

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Common Pitfalls

  • Missing rollback triggers or rollback commands
  • Steps without expected output checks
  • Stale ownership/escalation contacts
  • Runbooks never tested outside of incidents

Best Practices

1. Keep every command copy-pasteable. 2. Include health checks after every critical step. 3. Validate runbooks on a fixed review cadence. 4. Update runbook content after incidents and postmortems.

Related skills

How it compares

Choose runbook-generator to draft human-readable ops docs; prefer monitoring-linked automation when run steps must execute directly from alert context.

FAQ

What runbook types does runbook-generator include?

runbook-generator provides templates for deployment, incident response, database maintenance, and staleness detection, each with checklists for smoke tests, triage, backups, and config-change updates.

Does runbook-generator cover incident triage timing?

runbook-generator’s incident template defines a triage phase for the first 5 minutes, followed by diagnosis using logs, metrics, and recent deploys before mitigation and postmortem actions.

Is Runbook Generator safe to install?

skills.sh reports 3 of 3 security scanners passed. Review the Security Audits panel on this page before installing in production.

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