incident-postmortem

incident-postmortem is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from oxbshw/LLM-Agents-Ecosystem-Handbook. It costs 30 tokens per session (464 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A template and process for documenting a resolved software incident, such as an outage or serious service problem. It creates a blameless record of what happened, its impact, causes, contributing conditions, and follow-up work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reconstruct an incident timeline, describe customer impact, identify direct and contributing causes, record what went well or poorly, and assign owners and dates to corrective actions.
Why use it?
It turns scattered alerts, notes, and chat messages into a shared timeline and explanation. This helps teams learn from failures and assign concrete actions without blaming individuals.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Reconstruct an incident timeline, describe customer impact, identify direct and contributing causes, record what went well or poorly, and assign owners and dates to corrective actions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oxbshw/llm-agents-ecosystem-handbook/incident-postmortem
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 oxbshw/LLM-Agents-Ecosystem-Handbook --skill incident-postmortem
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oxbshw/LLM-Agents-Ecosystem-Handbook

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 464 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 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 $0.00030 $0.00464
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00232
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00046

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5d84fff91b5c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

incident-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 10d 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/catalog/incident-postmortem/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

Incident Postmortem

When to use

  • After an incident with customer impact
  • After a near-miss worth documenting
  • For drills / GameDay exercises

When NOT to use

  • Live incidents (use incident-runbook instead)
  • Pure private learnings (use a personal log)

Inputs

Name Type Required Notes
timeline text or paths yes Source notes, alert links, chat extracts
severity S0S3 yes Severity at peak
incident_id string yes e.g. INC-2026-04-12-001

Outputs

postmortem.md with: Summary, Impact, Timeline, Direct cause, Contributing factors, What went well, What didn't, Action items.

Workflow

  1. Reconstruct the timeline (UTC), one row per notable event
  2. State impact in user-facing terms (requests failed, dollars lost, customers affected)
  3. Identify the direct cause in one sentence — what specifically broke
  4. List contributing factors (the conditions that made the incident possible / hard to mitigate)
  5. Separate what went well (genuine wins, not platitudes) and what didn't
  6. Owners + dates on every action item; hard fail if missing
  7. Tone: blameless. Describe systems failing, not people.

References

Success criteria

  • Every action item has an owner and a date
  • Direct cause is one sentence
  • No names attached to fault; only roles / systems
  • Timeline times in UTC

Failure modes

  • Missing source data → list gaps explicitly; don't fill with guesses
  • Conflicting timelines → record both, flag for review
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. 10d ago First seen · 52 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 5d84fff91b5c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

incident-postmortem is a skill published in the GitHub repository oxbshw/LLM-Agents-Ecosystem-Handbook (546 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 464 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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