postmortem

postmortem is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jh941213/codex-lattice. It costs 49 tokens per session (274 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured way to review an incident or serious failure and record what happened, why, and how to prevent a repeat.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after outages, rollbacks, security findings, data or monitoring problems, major tool failures, or repeated regressions to document impact, timelines, causes, corrective actions, and prevention checks.
Why use it?
It turns scattered logs, alerts, commits, and notes into one factual account without blaming individuals. It also makes follow-up work and release risks explicit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/jh941213/codex-lattice/postmortem
Any agent
npx skills add jh941213/codex-lattice --skill postmortem
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jh941213/codex-lattice

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 274 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 $0.00049 $0.00274
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00137
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00027

Measured 3d ago against content hash fea75b4bf866, 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 3d 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/postmortem/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Postmortem

Use this skill after incidents, major repeated tool failures, rollback events, security findings, data issues, monitoring failures, or repeated regression loops.

Workflow

  1. Keep the write-up blameless and system-focused.
  2. Capture objective impact and detection source.
  3. Build a timeline from logs, commits, deploys, alerts, and human actions.
  4. Separate trigger, contributing factors, and root causes.
  5. Write corrective actions with owners, priority, and verification.
  6. Update docs/harness/POSTMORTEM_TEMPLATE.md.
  7. Link follow-ups in docs/harness/RISKS.md, docs/harness/DECISIONS.md, and docs/harness/OPERATIONS_RUNBOOK.md.

Required Sections

  • Summary
  • Impact
  • Detection
  • Timeline
  • Root causes
  • What went well
  • What went poorly
  • Corrective actions
  • Prevention checks

Required Output

Return postmortem status, missing evidence, corrective actions, and whether follow-up work should block release.

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. 3d ago First seen · 35 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A fea75b4bf866

Subscribe to this mod's changes

postmortem is a skill published in the GitHub repository jh941213/codex-lattice (19 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 274 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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