AI can draft your runbook, but it cannot own the pager.

AI can draft your runbook, but it cannot own the pager. Once a doc guides incident response, migrations, or security operations it stops being “content” and becomes an operational artifact: assign a named owner, record the decision context, and stamp a last-tested timestamp or it’s fast-moving operational debt. Treat AI output as a draft you validate and schedule into a test cadence. If you skip those three facts, you turn helpful prose into a blindfold for the on-call responder.