Agent Runbook Lint Skill

Agent Runbook Lint

Use this skill when an agent is about to follow, publish, or delegate a runbook and needs a local readiness check first.

Required Inputs

• Path to a Markdown runbook.
• Optional report path.

Outputs

• Markdown lint report.
• Exit code 0 when required gates pass, otherwise 1.

Side-Effect Boundaries

The skill reads runbooks and may write a report file. It must not execute runbook commands, push branches, call connectors, or mutate external systems.

Approval Requirements

Any follow-up action that writes to GitHub, Slack, CRM, project-management tools, or other external accounts requires explicit approval in the owning workflow. This includes release operations worded as tag the release or create a release tag. An approval section that says approval is not required is not an approval gate.

Examples

agent-runbook-lint check docs/ORCHESTRATION.md
agent-runbook-lint check RUNBOOK.md --report reports/runbook-lint.md

Validation Workflow

Run npm test, npm run check, and npm run smoke before using the report in a release-candidate PR. The npm scripts resolve the repo-local .venv interpreter created by the README Quickstart (falling back to an ambient python3), so first follow the Quickstart from a fresh checkout.