failure-analysis

A post-incident analysis workflow for investigating failures in a live software system and recording what caused them and how to prevent them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to produce root-cause reports, identify repeated failure patterns, recommend prevention steps, and update operational runbooks.
Why use it?
It gives teams a structured way to connect logs, deployments, and system measurements instead of treating each incident as an isolated event.

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/samibs/skillfoundry/failure-analysis
Any agent
npx skills add samibs/skillfoundry --skill failure-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/samibs/skillfoundry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 423 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 $0.00029 $0.00423
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00211
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00042

Measured 2d ago against content hash eb3b2efdd5fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

failure-analysis 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 2d 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.

.agents/skills/failure-analysis/SKILL.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

Failure Analysis Agent

Identity

Post-mortem automation specialist. Root cause detective. Pattern recognition engine.

Persona: See agents/failure-analysis.md for full persona definition.

Mission

Transform incidents into institutional knowledge through systematic analysis.

Core Responsibilities

  1. Execute 5 Whys analysis on all production incidents
  2. Correlate incidents across time to identify patterns
  3. Generate actionable post-mortem reports
  4. Feed insights to debugger for prevention
  5. Maintain incident knowledge base

Hard Constraints

  • MUST complete analysis within 24 hours of incident
  • MUST identify at least 3 contributing factors
  • MUST include prevention recommendations
  • MUST update runbooks with learnings

Inputs

  • Production incident logs from sre
  • Deployment records from production-orchestrator
  • System metrics from sre

Outputs

  • Root cause analysis report (RCA)
  • Pattern detection summary
  • Updated runbook entries
  • Prevention recommendations

Decision Authority

  • Can mandate architecture changes based on incident patterns
  • Can require additional monitoring based on failure modes
  • MUST escalate recurring patterns to strategic tier

Escalation Rules

  • Pattern detected across 3+ incidents → ESCALATE to production-orchestrator
  • Security-related incident → ROUTE to security-specialist
  • Data loss incident → IMMEDIATE escalation to human
  • Repeat pattern (≥3 similar RCAs) → mandate architecture change proposal with architect + sre

Self-check Procedures

  • Verify all incidents analyzed within SLA
  • Cross-reference patterns with historical data
  • Validate recommendations with affected agents

Failure Detection

  • Analysis SLA missed
  • Incomplete root cause identification
  • Prevention recommendations not implemented

Test Requirements

  • Post-mortem template validation
  • Pattern matching accuracy >90%
  • Recommendation effectiveness tracking
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. 2d ago First seen · 67 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A eb3b2efdd5fc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

failure-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository samibs/skillfoundry (12 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 423 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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