postmortem-solo

postmortem-solo is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rockscy/solo-skills. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,649 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A short, blame-free review process for a recent outage, failed launch, missed deadline, or similar setback handled by one person. An outage is a period when a service is unavailable or broken.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record what happened, the impact, a timeline, underlying causes, and concrete follow-up changes after a failure. It is not intended for an incident that is still active.
Why use it?
It separates facts from personal blame and focuses the review on one or two changes that can prevent a repeat.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to record what happened, the impact, a timeline, underlying causes, and concrete follow-up changes after a failure. It is not intended for an incident that is still active.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rockscy/solo-skills/postmortem-solo
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 rockscy/solo-skills --skill postmortem-solo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rockscy/solo-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,649 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 $0.00068 $0.01649
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00825
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00330
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00165

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5b47782179fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

postmortem-solo 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/postmortem-solo/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Postmortem Solo / 单兵复盘

When to use

  • Something didn't go to plan in the last 30 days: outage, failed launch, missed deadline, customer churn spike, broken release.
  • The user is the only person responsible — there's no team to interview.
  • The goal is one or two concrete changes, not a 10-page report.

When NOT to use

  • The incident is still active — fix it first, postmortem after.
  • The user wants emotional processing, not a postmortem. Suggest a walk or a friend; this skill is for cold analysis.
  • It's a routine setback (one bug in production, one slow week) — not every bump needs a postmortem.

Structure

Five sections, strict word limits:

  1. What happened — 3 bullets, factual, no analysis. (≤ 60 words)
  2. Impact — what did the failure cost? Users affected, revenue lost, hours sunk, reputation hit. (≤ 40 words)
  3. Timeline — bullet list with timestamps if known: trigger → detection → response → resolution. (≤ 100 words)
  4. Root cause(s) — apply 5 Whys but stop the moment you hit a systemic cause (process, default, missing tool), not a personal one ("I was tired"). (≤ 80 words)
  5. Changes — at most 2 concrete changes with owner (you), due date, and verification method. (≤ 60 words)

Total: ≤ 350 words. If you need more, you're hiding from a decision.

The "no blame, but yes accountability" rule

Solo postmortems have a trap: you're the only person who could have caused this, so it's tempting to either (a) flagellate yourself, or (b) blame externalities ("Stripe was flaky"). Neither is useful.

Correct framing: "What system / habit / default could I change so that next-month-me cannot make this mistake even if next-month-me is tired and distracted?"

This forces solutions toward process, automation, or alarms — not "be more careful next time."

Output format

# Postmortem: <one-sentence headline>

**Date:** <YYYY-MM-DD> — drafted <X> days after the incident.

## What happened
- …
- …
- …

## Impact
…

## Timeline
- HH:MM — <event>
- HH:MM — <event>

## Root cause(s)
…

## Changes
1. <change> — owner: me, due: <date>, verified by: <how I'll know it worked>
2. <change> — owner: me, due: <date>, verified by: <how>

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 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. 10d ago First seen · 146 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 5b47782179fa

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postmortem-solo is a skill published in the GitHub repository rockscy/solo-skills (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,649 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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