cyberneticlibrary

Write incident response runbooks

eng-runbookskillsetup L141,165
nexu-io/open-design
What it does

Produce single-page engineering service runbook

Best for

Quick reference during on-call rotations when incident response must be immediate and procedures must be precise and copy-paste-ready.

Inputs
  • · DESIGN.md tokens
  • · service name and owner team
  • · severity tier and version
  • · service dependencies list
  • · alert definitions (name, severity, meaning, first response)
  • · on-call rotation (week, primary, secondary, backup)
  • · 3–4 common procedures with code blocks (deploy, rollback, key rotation)
Outputs
  • · single-page HTML runbook
  • · header: service name, owner, tier, version
  • · alerts table
  • · dashboards & links list
  • · common procedures block with code
  • · on-call rotation table
  • · incident response checklist (5 numbered steps)
Preconditions
  • · DESIGN.md active
  • · Brief identifying the service
  • · Alert definitions, on-call roster, procedure list
Failure modes
  • · Missing severity tier classification
  • · Code blocks not monospace (hard to copy-paste)
  • · On-call rotation incomplete or stale
  • · Incident response checklist fewer than 5 steps
  • · Dashboards/links section absent
Trust signals
  • · Multi-section structure: header + summary + alerts + dashboards + procedures + on-call + incident checklist
  • · Code blocks explicitly monospace
  • · Severity tier integration
  • · 5-step incident response checklist (structured response)