procedure-ops

Procedure Ops is a package that adds a skill called sop-build to Claude Code, the AI coding assistant. The skill helps founders, operators, and team leads write Standard Operating Procedures, which are step-by-step instructions meant to let someone else reliably carry out a repeated task. You install it with one npx command and then use it through a slash command inside Claude Code.

The skill is designed to fix a common problem with SOPs: they usually get written by the person who already knows the process, so they end up full of vague steps like "review the form" without explaining what passing or failing looks like. Procedure Ops acts like a skeptical editor during the writing session. When you describe a step, it asks follow-up questions to nail down exactly what needs to happen, who is responsible, what the escalation path is if something goes wrong, and whether a human even needs to do this step at all.

That last point is a built-in automation check. For every step it builds, the skill asks whether the trigger is predictable, whether the inputs and outputs are known in advance, and whether judgment is required. If a step passes those tests, it flags it as a candidate for tools like Zapier, Make, or n8n and notes that in the document.

The skill covers several workflows. The main one is an interview mode where you describe a process from scratch and the skill guides you through ten phases, ending with a written SOP file in your project folder. There is also a mode that converts a screen-recording transcript into a structured SOP, an audit mode that reviews an existing SOP and grades it for weaknesses, and a delegate-pack mode that bundles a finished SOP into a handoff kit for a VA or new hire with access lists, training inventory, and check-in schedules.

When you set up a new business in the tool, it creates a folder structure organized by department: support, operations, onboarding, sales, finance, marketing, and others. It also asks where your team will actually read the SOPs day to day, offering options including local markdown files, Google Drive, and Notion.