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Build an AI Operations Runbook

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Document how one agent workflow starts, receives authority, handles failures and returns a useful result to a named owner.

Before you start

  • One workflow to document
  • Access to its owner and tool boundaries
  • A test environment or a paper walkthrough

What you will learn

  • Document service boundaries
  • Define permissions and review points
  • Practice two failure scenarios
  • Prepare a runbook another operator can follow

Final project: A workflow runbook with access map, incident responses, release checklist and two completed drill records.

Included scope

  • Written lessons and runbook templates. No production credentials, infrastructure or incident-response service is included.

These notes describe the scope. Saving a selection does not provision a system or collect payment.

Your learning path

Module 1 is free to read · buy the course to unlock all 4
01 / Define the operating boundary

Name the workflow's start condition, inputs, outputs, dependencies and owner. List the actions it may take and those it must escalate. A broad role such as marketing assistant does not describe the authority required to publish a page or change a budget.

Record each dependency and the behavior expected when it is unavailable. Include which configuration version is active and where the supporting instructions live. This gives an operator a concrete starting point when a result looks wrong.

Practice: Draw the workflow and write an operating boundary for every external action.

Keep: A service map and authority table.

02 / Document access and decision ownershipUnlocks after purchase
03 / Practice failures before they occurUnlocks after purchase
04 / Hand the workflow to another operatorUnlocks after purchase
CASE WORKSHOP / APPLY THE LESSON

Hand over a workflow after two controlled failure drills

Practice brief: A source-based reporting workflow needs a runbook that another operator can follow. In controlled exercises, the source export is unavailable and a downstream response is uncertain after submission. Build the access map, incident responses, release checklist, and two drill records required by the course.

Work through the case

  1. Document the workflow boundary, dependencies, authorized roles, permitted data, and decision ownership. Define what evidence an operator can inspect without exposing unnecessary payloads or expanding access.
  2. Run the two bounded scenarios and record detection, containment, communication, and recovery decisions. For the uncertain submission, verify the destination's state and duplicate-request contract before deciding whether another attempt is appropriate.
  3. Revise the runbook from observed gaps, then give it to a second operator for a tabletop handoff. Record remaining questions and a proportionate decision about supervised use, further testing, or deferral.

Review your result

  • The runbook distinguishes restored availability from reconciled work. It identifies potentially skipped or duplicated tasks instead of declaring recovery solely because a service responds again.
  • Each drill record reflects what was actually observed in the exercise and names uncertainty. No invented completion or universal retry guarantee appears in the recovery instructions.
  • The replacement operator can identify the next safe step and the owner of an exception. Two drills are presented as bounded practice, not comprehensive reliability assurance.
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