Overview
What It Does
Incident Runbook Templates packages a focused communication workflow for an AI agent. 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. It is best suited to users who can review the resulting actions and provide only the accounts, files, or command access needed for the task. It is not a substitute for human approval on destructive, financial, security-sensitive, or public-facing actions.
Task ideas
Popular Use Cases
- Draft and organize messages
- Work with communication channels and contacts
- Summarize conversations into next steps
- Automate routine coordination
Installation
Install this Agent Skill
Claude Code
npx skills add https://github.com/wshobson/agents --skill incident-runbook-templatesCommands derived from the public GitHub SKILL.md record. Checked 2026-09-02. Review the source before running them.
Before you start
Requirements
| Claude Code | Required / review |
| Codex | Required / review |
| Public SKILL.md source | Required / review |
| Review instructions and requested permissions before installation | Required / review |
| Paid service | Check source |
| Supported system | Check source |
Popularity context
Why It’s Popular
Incident Runbook Templates is a verified Agent Skill from wshobson with a public SKILL.md, compatible with Claude Code, Codex.
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