Official Document Processing

runbook

Create or update an operational runbook for a recurring task or procedure. Use when documenting a task that on-call or ops needs to run repeatably, turning tribal knowledge into exact step-by-step commands, adding troubleshooting and rollback steps to an existing procedure, or writing escalation paths for when things go wrong.

This skill ships only metadata — no inline instructions. See the source repo for details.

Install this skill

One command (all agents)

Runs the npx skills CLI which auto-detects every AI coding agent you have installed (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, Windsurf, Copilot, and 51 more).

npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/HEAD/operations/skills/runbook

Alternative: shorthand form

npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill runbook

Install to a specific agent

Pick the agent you use. The CLI writes the skill to that agent's standard skill directory.

npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill runbook --agent claude-code

npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill runbook --agent cursor

npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill runbook --agent codex

npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill runbook --agent opencode

npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill runbook --agent github-copilot

npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill runbook --agent windsurf

Manual install (no CLI)

Prefer to skip the CLI? Clone the repo and drop the skill folder into your agent's skills directory.

git clone https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins.git

cp -r knowledge-work-plugins/operations/skills/runbook ~/.claude/skills/

For other agents, replace ~/.claude/skills/ with their skill directory — see the full list.

Use it

Once installed, ask your agent to "use the runbook skill" or describe what you want (e.g. "Create or update an operational runbook for a recurring task or procedure. Use w"). Most agents auto-discover the skill from its SKILL.md description — no slash command needed.

Requires: Node.js 18+ for npx skills. Skill files are MIT-style permissive by default — check the source repo for the actual license.

SKILL.md source

---
name: runbook
description: Create or update an operational runbook for a recurring task or procedure. Use when documenting a task that on-call or ops needs to run repeatably, turning tribal knowledge into exact step-by-step com
---

Related skills 6

env-and-assets-bootstrap

★ Featured

RigorPilot setup skill for README-first deep learning repo reproduction. Use when the task is specifically to prepare a conservative conda-first environment, checkpoint and dataset path assumptions, cache location hints, and setup notes before any run on a README-documented repository. Do not use for repo scanning, full orchestration, paper interpretation, final run reporting, or generic environment setup that is not tied to a specific reproduction target.

lllllllama 127k

Document Processing

firecrawl

★ Featured

Search, scrape, and interact with the web via the Firecrawl CLI. Use this skill whenever the user wants to search the web, find articles, research a topic, look something up online, scrape a webpage, grab content from a URL, get data from a website, crawl documentation, download a site, or interact with pages that need clicks or logins. Also use when they say "fetch this page", "pull the content from", "get the page at https://", or reference external websites. This provides real-time web sea...

firecrawl 59k

Document Processing