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Runbook Automation

T5 - Operations & Reliability

Automate repetitive operational playbooks - Embed validation and approval steps - Measure impact of automations

Instrument, monitor, and govern AI workflows in production.

Key outcomes

  • Automate repetitive operational playbooks
  • Embed validation and approval steps
  • Measure impact of automations

Deliverables

  • Automated runbook
  • Approval workflow
  • Impact report

Prerequisites

  • OR-501

Evaluation signals

  • RUNBOOK-AUTO-001
  • AUTO-IMPACT-001

Persona fit

Delivery LeadAgent Engineer

Assistant orchestration

View assistant playbook

Scout

Agent

Research horizons, regulation updates, and pattern watchlists.

  • Refresh critical intel within 24 hours of change
  • Maintain 95% citation accuracy
  • Flag module freshness risks automatically

Coach

Agent

Pair with learners during modules, labs, and retrospectives.

  • Median response under 2 seconds
  • Satisfaction above 4.6/5
  • Escalate risky experiments within 10 minutes

Critic

Agent

Guardrails, evaluations, and red-team simulations.

  • Detect 98% evaluation anomalies
  • Zero unlogged high-severity incidents
  • Attach control evidence to every flagged issue

Archivist

Agent

Evidence locker, credential manifests, and knowledge graph links.

  • Tag 100% deliverables with owners and signals
  • Keep schema drift under 1%
  • Generate credential payloads automatically

Companion

Agent

Health, pacing, and personalised nudges across squads.

  • On-time nudges for 90% milestones
  • Keep burnout false positives below 5%
  • Publish weekly sponsor-ready progress snapshots

Navigator

Agent

CTA instrumentation, sponsor digest composition, and mastery guardrails.

  • Cover 95% persona CTAs every sprint
  • Generate sponsor digest drafts within 5 minutes of module completion
  • Hold mastery drift within one tier

Micro lessons

Automation Candidate Scan

25 min

Objective: Identify high-value runbooks suited for automation.

Activities

  • List repetitive tasks
  • Score effort vs. impact
  • Select pilot candidate

Knowledge checks

  • Which runbook has measurable ROI?
  • What compliance constraints apply?

Workflow Orchestration Build

35 min

Objective: Script automation with approvals, fallbacks, and logging.

Activities

  • Design workflow diagram
  • Implement automation
  • Add approval checkpoints

Knowledge checks

  • Where do humans approve changes?
  • How are failures rolled back?

Adoption Measurement

20 min

Objective: Track usage, time saved, and risk reduction after automation.

Activities

  • Define metrics
  • Collect baseline
  • Report impact to sponsors

Knowledge checks

  • What metric proves success?
  • How often will you review automation health?

Knowledge points

Automation Readiness Checklist

Ensure process stability, guardrails, and fallbacks before automating.

Approval Workflow Patterns

Use progressive approvals, peer review, and audit logs for automated operations.

Micro paths featuring this module

LaunchAgent Engineer

Stand up a dependable coding agent that ships quality pull requests.

Day 1 - Frame and scope
AE-101AE-102
Day 2 - Prototype loop
AE-103RP-201
Day 3 - Guardrails
AE-104OR-501
Day 4 - Demo narrative
CC-401
Day 5 - Handoff
CC-404OR-503
Launch micro path
OperateDelivery Lead

Instrument operations, run drills, and keep sponsors informed.

Day 1 - Baseline
OR-501
Day 2 - Observability
OR-502OR-503
Day 3 - Runbooks
OR-504
Day 4 - Communications
CC-404
Day 5 - Sponsor digest
LS-603
Launch micro path

Credential alignment

This module contributes evidence across multiple credentials. See the credential framework for details.

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