runbooks

Visr is a beta tool that captures shell and AI agent sessions, converting ephemeral terminal interactions into reusable transcripts, runbooks, skills, and evals for better context in future runs.

An X thread arguing that production AI agents need operational scaffolding (runbooks, permissions, logs, rollback, verification) rather than just better prompts. The author draws parallels to DevOps evolution, stating that prompts provide advice while runbooks provide control, and that agent systems require platform engineering solutions for permissions, state management, verification, observability, and rollback capabilities.