# AISkills402: Runbook Step Check

> AISkills402: Runbook Step Check is a paid API for AI agents from api.aiskills402.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-20).

Checks each step of an operational runbook for five critical fields (owner, duration, success signal, rollback, escalation contact) and reports only the deficient steps with coded findings.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.aiskills402.com/v1/skills/runbook-step-check/file?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-20
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/aiskills402-runbook-step-check-aaa7e9a4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_gUWoEjP4mk_KxWRZe8hBL

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability aiskills402-runbook-step-check-aaa7e9a4
```

Example prompt: Can you check my deployment runbook for any steps that are missing an owner, expected duration, success signal, rollback path, or escalation contact — and list just the deficient steps with codes for what's missing?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a focused, codified audit of a single operational runbook — specifically for the five on-call-critical fields (owner, duration, success signal, rollback, escalation). Prefer it over general document review tools when you want machine-readable missing-field codes rather than prose feedback, and when the runbook is a numbered procedural document (deploy, failover, rotation, recovery).

## Known failure modes

- Empty or malformed runbook input returns an error or no findings
- Non-numbered or free-form procedures may not be parsed step-by-step correctly
- Steps with ambiguous or implicit owners may not be flagged if ownership is inferred
- Payment not settled via x402 returns 402 Payment Required
- Very long runbooks may hit input size limits

## How this service works

Runbook Step Check — Checks ONE operational runbook (a numbered procedure for a deploy, a failover, a rotation or a recovery) step by step for the five things a person at three in the morning needs and writers forget - an owner, an expected duration, a visible signal that the step worked, a way back, and someone to escalate to - and lists only the steps that miss something, one line per step with fixed codes for what is missing, or exactly No findings. It accepts a success signal written in oth…

## Output

A list of only the runbook steps that fail one or more of the five checks, formatted as one line per step with short codes indicating which of the five elements (owner, duration, success signal, rollback, escalation contact) is absent — or exactly the text 'No findings' if all steps are complete.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
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 ],
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   "required": [
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    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "headers": {
     "type": "object",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "string"
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
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   "properties": {
    "type": {
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    "example": {
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    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/aiskills402-runbook-step-check-aaa7e9a4/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.aiskills402.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.aiskills402.com/llms.txt)