Engineering Runbook

Engineering Runbook is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by nexu-io in open-design.

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Install Engineering Runbook

Copy Engineering Runbook into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/tree/main/design-templates/eng-runbook ~/.claude/skills/eng-runbook

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: design-templates/eng-runbook/SKILL.md in nexu-io/open-design
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/eng-runbook
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Engineering Runbook does

Engineering Runbook generates a single-page engineering runbook with service overview, alerts table, dashboards links, common procedures, on-call rotation, and an incident-response checklist. Use it when the brief mentions 'runbook', 'ops doc', 'on-call guide', 'SRE doc', or '运维手册'.

Engineering Runbook is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Engineering Runbook comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agents, ai-design, byok and claude-code-for-design.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

Engineering 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>

Frequently asked about Engineering Runbook

What else does nexu-io publish alongside Engineering Runbook?
Engineering Runbook is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from nexu-io/open-design, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Audio Jingle, Blog Post and Clinical Case Report. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Engineering Runbook does, and is maintained by nexu-io in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the nexu-io/open-design page.
How does Engineering Runbook compare to other DevOps skills?
Engineering Runbook ranks #12 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Engineering Runbook against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.