conducting-post-incident-lessons-learned

conducting-post-incident-lessons-learned is a skill for Claude Code from 26zl/cybersec-toolkit. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,712 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to reviewing a security incident after it has been contained, removed, and recovered from. It helps teams reconstruct what happened, discuss what worked or failed, and record improvements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run post-incident review meetings, analyze incident records and response data, document root causes, and produce improvement recommendations.
Why use it?
It turns an incident or exercise into specific changes to response procedures. Reviewing timelines and response metrics helps identify delays, recurring causes, and gaps in the playbook.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Part of the cybersec-toolkit plugin — 197 skills, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to run post-incident review meetings, analyze incident records and response data, document root causes, and produce improvement recommendations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/26zl/cybersec-toolkit/conducting-post-incident-lessons-learned
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add 26zl/cybersec-toolkit --skill conducting-post-incident-lessons-learned
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/26zl/cybersec-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cybersec-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 197 skills, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,712 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 120
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00040 $0.01712
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00856
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00342
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00171

Measured 7d ago against content hash d525f1db0c8a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

conducting-post-incident-lessons-learned scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/agent.py, scripts/process.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s "https://thehive.local/api/v1/case/$CASE_ID/timeline" \
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/conducting-post-incident-lessons-learned/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Conducting Post-Incident Lessons Learned

When to Use

  • After any security incident has been fully resolved and recovery completed
  • Following tabletop exercises or IR simulations
  • After significant near-miss events
  • Quarterly review of accumulated incident trends
  • When IR playbooks need updating based on real-world experience

Prerequisites

  • Incident fully resolved (containment, eradication, recovery complete)
  • Incident timeline and documentation gathered
  • All incident responders available for review session
  • Meeting space for collaborative discussion
  • Incident ticketing system data for metrics analysis

Workflow

Step 1: Gather Incident Data

# Export incident timeline from ticketing system
curl -s "https://thehive.local/api/v1/case/$CASE_ID/timeline" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $THEHIVE_API_KEY" | jq '.' > incident_timeline.json

# Extract detection and response metrics from SIEM
index=notable incident_id="IR-2024-042"
| stats min(_time) as first_alert, max(_time) as last_alert,
  count as total_alerts, dc(src) as unique_sources

# Compile all responder actions and timestamps
grep -E "timestamp|action|analyst" /var/log/ir/IR-2024-042/*.json | \
  python3 -m json.tool > compiled_actions.json

Step 2: Conduct Blameless Post-Mortem Meeting

Structured Agenda (90 minutes):
1. Incident summary (5 min) - Factual overview
2. Timeline walkthrough (20 min) - Chronological events
3. What worked well (15 min) - Positive outcomes
4. What needs improvement (15 min) - Gaps and failures
5. Root cause analysis (15 min) - 5 Whys or fishbone
6. Action items (10 min) - Specific improvements with owners
7. Playbook updates (10 min) - Changes to IR procedures

Blameless Principles:
- Focus on systems and processes, not individuals
- Assume best intentions with available information
- Seek to understand, not to blame

Step 3: Perform Root Cause Analysis

# 5 Whys analysis example:
# Why 1: Why did ransomware encrypt production servers?
#   Answer: Attacker had domain admin credentials
# Why 2: Why did attacker have domain admin credentials?
#   Answer: Kerberoasted a service account and cracked it
# Why 3: Why was the service account password crackable?
#   Answer: Used a 12-character dictionary-based password
# Why 4: Why was the service account password weak?
#   Answer: No enforcement of service account password policy
# Why 5: Why was there no service account password policy?
#   Answer: PAM was not implemented for service accounts
# ROOT CAUSE: Lack of privileged access management

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 192 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A d525f1db0c8a

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conducting-post-incident-lessons-learned is a skill published in the GitHub repository 26zl/cybersec-toolkit (52 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,712 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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