Skill Analysis

Incident Postmortem

Draft an incident postmortem with timeline, RCA, and action items

install path ~/.claude/skills/incident-postmortem/SKILL.md
command /incident-postmortem
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SKILL.md

Incident Postmortem

Purpose

Draft an incident postmortem with timeline, RCA, and action items.

Inputs to request

  • Incident timeline and impact.
  • Logs, alerts, and change history.
  • Mitigations taken and outcomes.

Workflow

  1. Build a clear incident timeline from evidence.
  2. Identify root causes and contributing factors.
  3. Define corrective and preventive actions.

Output

  • Postmortem draft with action items.

Quality bar

  • Focus on systemic causes over blame.
  • Assign owners and due dates for actions.

Copy this into ~/.claude/skills/incident-postmortem/SKILL.md to use it as a slash command in Claude Code.

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