postmortem

postmortem is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from arch3rPro/dsh-skills. It costs 75 tokens per session (757 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A postmortem is a record written after a failure. It explains what broke, why it happened, why checks missed it, and what safeguards should prevent the same kind of failure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a serious incident or regression to document the timeline, root cause, missed protections, and new guardrails.
Why use it?
It preserves the hard-won explanation of a subtle or costly bug so another engineer does not have to rediscover it. It focuses on causes and prevention, not blame.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the dsh-skills plugin — 15 skills shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arch3rpro/dsh-skills/postmortem
Any agent
npx skills add arch3rPro/dsh-skills --skill postmortem
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arch3rPro/dsh-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install dsh-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for postmortem

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/arch3rpro/dsh-skills/postmortem.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/arch3rpro/dsh-skills/postmortem)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/arch3rpro/dsh-skills/postmortem"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/arch3rpro/dsh-skills/postmortem.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 757 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00075 $0.00757
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00378
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00076

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7b5766d8a764, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

postmortem scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 4d ago.

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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/process/postmortem/SKILL.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Postmortem

A postmortem is a backward-looking record of a failure: what broke, the mechanism, why every safety net missed it, and the concrete guardrails added so the same class of bug fails loudly next time. It is the complement of decision-records, which records a forward-looking decision and its alternatives.

The defining constraint: a postmortem is retrospective and failure-specific — it is not an incident log, not a blame report, and not an ADR. Its job is to make the mechanism explicit and to leave guardrails, so the next occurrence fails loudly instead of silently.

When one is owed

Write a postmortem when a bug is:

  • Subtle — the mechanism is non-obvious and a careful engineer would re-derive it the hard way;
  • Systemic — the reason it escaped every safety net is structural, not a one-line mistake;
  • Costly to rediscover — it cost real debugging time, and would cost it again.

A trivial one-line fix with an obvious cause does not earn one. When unsure, ask whether the next engineer would hit the same wall — if yes, write it.

Structure

Open with an Executive summary: one short paragraph a busy reader absorbs in thirty seconds — what broke, the root cause in plain terms, why it escaped, and the durable lesson. Then the detail:

  1. Summary — what happened, in plain terms.
  2. Timeline — the sequence that led to the failure and its discovery.
  3. Root cause — the mechanism, stated precisely, not the nearest symptom.
  4. Guardrails — the concrete measures added so the same class fails loudly: tests, agent rules, decision records, or process changes. Link each guardrail to the artifact that carries it.

The interesting part is why the process let it through, not the one-line fix. Keep the focus there.

Not a decision record

A postmortem records a failure that already happened; a decision record records a choice you are making now. Do not fold the two: if the postmortem motivates a future decision, record that decision separately in a decision record and cross-link. Keep the retrospective and the forward-looking records distinct.

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 4d ago First seen · 53 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 7b5766d8a764

Subscribe to this mod's changes

postmortem is a skill published in the GitHub repository arch3rPro/dsh-skills (4 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 757 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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