About eng-runbook
eng-runbook is a skill for producing a single-page engineering runbook from a service brief and DESIGN.md. It specifies service details, alerts, procedures, on-call coverage, and incident response in an HTML output.
Key features
- 01Reads DESIGN.md and identifies the service
- 02Service summary and dependency list
- 03Alerts with severity and first response
- 04Procedures and on-call rotation
- 05Five-step incident checklist
- 06HTML output contract
Use cases
- 01Documenting a service for on-call engineers
- 02Recording alert meanings and initial responses
- 03Presenting deploy, rollback, and key rotation procedures
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
$
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ nexu-io/ open-design --skill eng-runbookAfter installing, type/eng-runbookin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Bundled filesexample.html
Details
From the project READMEEngineering Runbook Skill
Produce a single-page engineering runbook.
Workflow
- Read DESIGN.md.
- Identify the service from the brief.
- Layout:
- Header: service name, owner team, severity tier, version.
- Service summary paragraph + dependency list.
- Alerts table: alert name / severity / what it means / first response.
- Dashboards & links list.
- Common procedures block (3–4) with code blocks (deploy, rollback, rotate keys).
- On-call rotation table (week / primary / secondary / backup).
- Incident response checklist (5 numbered steps).
- One inline
<style>, semantic HTML, monospace for code blocks.
Output contract
<artifact identifier="runbook-name" type="text/html" title="Service Runbook">
<!doctype html>...</artifact>
Comments
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