Runbook Investigator

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Engineering · Sub-category: performance

Structured investigation and troubleshooting for production incidents, build failures, performance issues, and mysterious bugs. Use when the user says 'debug this', 'why is this failing', 'investigate this issue', 'troubleshoot', 'production is down', 'this is broken and I don't know why', 'help me find the root cause', 'postmortem', 'incident response', or 'something is wrong'. Also triggers on 'runbook', 'investigation', 'troubleshooting', 'root cause analysis', 'incident', 'outage', 'debugging', 'diagnose', or 'what went wrong'.

What this skill does

Runbook Investigator is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the performance sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/runbook-investigator/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when the user says 'debug this', 'why is this failing', 'investigate this issue', 'troubleshoot', 'production is down', 'this is broken and I don't know why', 'help me find the root cause', 'postmortem', 'incident response', or 'something is wrong'. Also triggers on 'runbook', 'investigation', 'troubleshooting', 'root cause analysis', 'incident', 'outage', 'debugging', 'diagnose', or 'what went wrong'.

Who uses this skill

The Runbook Investigator skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/runbook-investigator
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/runbook-investigator/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/runbook-investigator/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/runbook-investigator/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/runbook-investigator/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\runbook-investigator\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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