write-a-postmortem

write-a-postmortem is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from inkeep/open-knowledge. It costs 169 tokens per session (4,161 once invoked), scanned A, original, GPL-3.0.

A template for documenting a production incident as a blameless postmortem, a review of what happened and how to prevent a repeat. It separates the trigger, root cause, symptoms, and contributing factors.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after an outage or other incident to record the timeline, what went well, causes, and verifiable corrective actions.
Why use it?
It replaces vague explanations with an evidence-based timeline and clear follow-up work owned by specific people and dates.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it after an outage or other incident to record the timeline, what went well, causes, and verifiable corrective actions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/inkeep/open-knowledge/write-a-postmortem
About the project

OpenKnowledge is a markdown editor and local knowledge-base application for writing wikis, notes, specifications, and reports. People use it through desktop, web, or command-line interfaces to edit documents, search and link knowledge, and work with AI coding agents. The catalogue entries provide skills and instructions for using its knowledge-management and agent integrations.

inkeep/open-knowledge · 4,585 stars · on GitHub · openknowledge.ai

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.

Any agent
npx skills add inkeep/open-knowledge --skill write-a-postmortem
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 169 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,161 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin unknown 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 $0.00169 $0.04161
Opus 5.5 $0.00068 $0.01664
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00832
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00416

Measured yesterday against content hash 6e935cbe8e16, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

write-a-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 yesterday.

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.

packages/server/assets/skills/packs/software-lifecycle/write-a-postmortem/SKILL.md · 203 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. yesterday Changed 6e935cbe8e16
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 203 lines · 169 tokens per session scan A 59d6a467f513

Subscribe to this mod's changes

write-a-postmortem is a skill published in the GitHub repository inkeep/open-knowledge (4,585 stars, last pushed today), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 169 tokens to every session and 4,161 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-30.

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