conduct-postmortem

conduct-postmortem is a skill for Claude Code from cpliakas/claude-code-engineering-leaders. It costs 76 tokens per session (2,152 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided process for documenting a production incident or failed release. It collects available evidence and creates a blameless postmortem, a record of what happened, its impact, and how to prevent a repeat.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after an outage, deployment problem, aborted release, or other operational failure. It helps record severity, timing, affected services, user impact, and contributing factors.
Why use it?
It turns scattered logs, errors, timelines, and impact details into one structured document without blaming individuals. It also asks for missing facts needed for a credible report.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it after an outage, deployment problem, aborted release, or other operational failure. It helps record severity, timing, affected services, user impact, and contributing factors.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cpliakas/claude-code-engineering-leaders/conduct-postmortem
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add cpliakas/claude-code-engineering-leaders --skill conduct-postmortem
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cpliakas/claude-code-engineering-leaders

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,152 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00076 $0.02152
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00861
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00430
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00215

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5321c410ff97, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

conduct-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 1mo 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/conduct-postmortem/SKILL.md · 305 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 305 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Conduct Postmortem

Conduct a blameless incident postmortem for the incident described in $ARGUMENTS. Collect evidence and produce a structured postmortem document.

Step 1 — Collect Available Evidence

If $ARGUMENTS is empty and there is no incident context in the current session, ask the user to describe the incident before proceeding. Do not continue until an incident description is provided.

Scan the current session context for:

  • Error messages and stack traces
  • Failed commands and their output
  • Observed behaviors and timeline events
  • Services and components involved

Read the incident description from $ARGUMENTS. If key facts are missing to populate the timeline and impact section, prompt the developer for them before proceeding:

  • Severity: What was the user-facing or operational impact? (SEV-1 through SEV-4)
  • Date/time: When did the incident occur (or when was it discovered)?
  • Duration: How long until resolution?
  • Services involved: Which components were affected?
  • Impact metrics: Users affected, events disrupted, revenue lost, SLA violations?

Do not proceed to Step 2 until enough information exists to produce a credible timeline and quantified impact section.

Step 2 — Determine the Next POST ID

Check the DevOps Lead's project memory (.claude/agent-memory/engineering-leaders-devops-lead/MEMORY.md) for a configured postmortem directory path and ID format.

If a directory is configured:

  1. Read the index file (typically README.md) in that directory
  2. Find the highest POST-NNN number in the index table
  3. Set the next ID to that number + 1, zero-padded to 3 digits

If no directory is configured:

  1. Generate the postmortem document as output only (do not write to disk)
  2. Note in the output that the DevOps Lead's memory can be configured with a postmortem_directory path to enable automatic filing

The output filename convention is: POST-NNN-YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.md

Where <slug> is a short, hyphenated description of the incident (e.g., migration-chain-failure, api-startup-crash, feed-parse-regression).

Read the full file on GitHub · 305 lines

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. 1mo ago First seen · 305 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 5321c410ff97

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conduct-postmortem is a skill published in the GitHub repository cpliakas/claude-code-engineering-leaders (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 2,152 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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