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incident-runbook-templates

Create structured incident response runbooks with step-by-step procedures, escalation paths, and recovery actions. Use this skill when building a service outage runbook for a payment processing system; creating database incident procedures covering connection pool exhaustion, replication lag, and disk space alerts; onboarding new on-call engineers who need step-by-step recovery guides written for a 3 AM brain; or standardizing escalation matrices across multiple engineering teams.

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Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is well-structured and highly actionable with executable, validation-aware examples and a clear one-level reference. Minor conciseness and content-splitting gaps keep it just short of top marks.

Suggestions

Move some of the inline troubleshooting walkthroughs into references/details.md, keeping only the pattern summaries in the body to tighten progressive disclosure.

Trim the explanatory lead sentences in each Troubleshooting subsection so the code/checklist examples carry the guidance.

Add an explicit validation checkpoint inside the numbered Runbook Structure outline (e.g. a 'Verify' note at step 7) rather than only in the troubleshooting examples.

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Conciseness

Mostly efficient with well-organized sections and tables, but a few troubleshooting intro sentences ('Steps often assume preconditions that are true in a healthy environment but not during an outage') could be trimmed.

4 / 5

Actionability

Provides copy-paste ready, executable examples — kubectl commands with prerequisite/failure notes, a markdown quick checklist, a metadata table, a communication agenda, and SQL with a dry-run validation block.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Clear sequenced runbook structure (1–9) plus explicit validation feedback loops (SQL dry-run 'EXECUTE only after verifying count'; kubectl 'If this fails: run...') and a checklist pattern for stress conditions.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Clean one-level-deep pointer to references/details.md that exists and is clearly signaled, but the body inlines substantial troubleshooting detail that could partly live in the referenced file.

4 / 5

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Description

100%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is exemplary: it states concrete capabilities, provides an explicit 'Use this skill when...' trigger with multiple specific scenarios, and occupies a clear niche with low conflict risk. Voice matches the recommended imperative style of the good examples.

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Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — 'step-by-step procedures, escalation paths, and recovery actions' — plus specific scenarios (connection pool exhaustion, replication lag, disk space alerts), giving comprehensive coverage.

5 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers 'what' ('Create structured incident response runbooks...') and 'when' with a 'Use this skill when...' clause listing four concrete trigger scenarios.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Covers natural phrases users would say — 'service outage runbook', 'payment processing system', 'database incident procedures', 'on-call engineers', 'escalation matrices' — with synonyms across incident/outage/runbook.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Clear niche (incident runbooks) with specific triggers like payment outages and database procedures; minimal overlap risk with unrelated skills.

5 / 5

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Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

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