Manual Runbook Dependency

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Enforcement Core

Aliases: Manual-Only Recovery, Manual Intervention Dependency

Record: architecture:manual-runbook-dependency

Severity: discouraged

Scope: resilience_recovery

Formed by: Perform by hand the repeatable operational actions during incidents, deploys, migrations, or recovery.

Canonical: Ontology

A defect in which repeatable operational steps, such as detecting a failure and recovering from it, are performed by hand during incidents and deploys, so recovery waits on a person.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Log-as-Control-Flow and before Big-Bang Release.

Refactored by

• Automate the Runbook
• Guardrails
• Precondition Check
• Execution Log

Severity

• discouraged

Category

• Anti-patterns

Force

• Resilience recovery

Negated by

• Self-Healing Architecture
• Auto-Remediation

Violates

• Self-Healing Architecture
• Auto-Remediation

Linked from

• The stance
• The drop-in
• Anti-patterns
• Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety
• Correctness / Determinism / Verification
• Model Architecture
• Observability / Auditability / Traceability
• Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety
• Severity levels
• The forces