# Manual Runbook Dependency

> 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.

Record: `architecture:manual-runbook-dependency`
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: [Enforcement Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/enforcement-core.md)
Severity: discouraged
Scope: resilience_recovery
Aliases: Manual-Only Recovery, Manual Intervention Dependency
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology#architecture-manual-runbook-dependency

Listed in [Architecture principles](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/architecture.md), after [Log-as-Control-Flow](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/log-as-control-flow.md) and before [Big-Bang Release](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/big-bang-release.md).

## Repair

- Refactored by: automate_runbook, add_guardrails, validate_preconditions, record_execution_log
- Detected by: same_manual_incident_steps, manual_migration_sequence, operator_specific_knowledge
- Violated by: Perform by hand the repeatable operational actions during incidents, deploys, migrations, or recovery.
- Measured by: manual steps repeated across incidents
- Enforced by: operations review of manual steps repeated across incidents

## Severity

- [discouraged](https://banes-lab.com/records/vocabulary/severity-discouraged.md)

## Category

- [Anti-patterns](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture-category/anti-patterns.md)

## Force

- [Resilience recovery](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/resilience-recovery.md)

## Negated by

- [Self-Healing Architecture](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/self-healing-architecture.md)
- [Auto-Remediation](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/auto-remediation.md)

## Linked from

- [The stance](https://banes-lab.com/disciplined-methodology/start/the-stance.md)
- [The drop-in](https://banes-lab.com/disciplined-methodology/start/onboarding.md)
- [Anti-patterns](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-anti-patterns.md)
- [Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-self-healing-recovery-deployment-safety.md)
- [Severity levels](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-vocabulary-severity.md)
- [The forces](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-forces.md)