incident-postmortem

incident-postmortem is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from w95/awesome-claude-corporate-skills. It costs 27 tokens per session (2,396 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An incident postmortem writing guide for documenting service disruptions without blaming individuals, using timelines, evidence, root causes, and follow-up actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reconstruct events, analyze system or process causes, assign action items, and define preventive measures.
Why use it?
It turns outages and other operational failures into documented lessons and concrete steps to reduce repeat incidents.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to reconstruct events, analyze system or process causes, assign action items, and define preventive measures.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/w95/awesome-claude-corporate-skills/incident-postmortem
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add w95/awesome-claude-corporate-skills --skill incident-postmortem
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/w95/awesome-claude-corporate-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,396 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 $0.00027 $0.02396
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01198
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00479
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00240

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2aeff0b2bd7a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 8d 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.

07-operations/incident-postmortem/SKILL.md · 288 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 288 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Incident Postmortem Builder

Overview

Create blameless incident postmortems that transform operational disruptions into learning opportunities. These documents focus on system failures and process gaps, not individual blame, enabling continuous improvement and preventing recurrence.

Core Principles

  1. Blameless: Focus on systems, not people. "Why did this happen?" not "Who screwed up?"
  2. Psychological Safety: Team members must feel safe discussing root causes without fear
  3. Data-Driven: Base findings on logs, metrics, and facts; not assumptions
  4. Action-Oriented: Every finding leads to actionable improvements
  5. Learning Culture: Treat incidents as valuable learning events, not failures
  6. Transparency: Share findings broadly; communicate changes to prevent similar incidents

Timeline Reconstruction

Create a detailed chronology of events:

Time (UTC) | Who | What | Evidence | Context
-----------|-----|------|----------|----------
2024-02-15 14:32 | Jenkins | Deploy v2.1.3 (buggy) | Logs | Automated Friday deploy
14:35 | Customer | Website errors | CloudFront | 500 errors reported
14:37 | On-call | PagerDuty alert | Alert | Error rate exceeded threshold
14:42 | Eng team | Investigation starts | Slack #incidents | Identified deploy cause
14:55 | Lead | Rollback initiated | Logs | Reverted to v2.1.2
15:02 | On-call | Error rate normal | Metrics | Customers back to normal
15:30 | Team | Root cause meeting | Notes | Identified root cause

Timeline Template:

  • T+0 (Alert): When first detected
  • T+X (Detection): When incident was recognized
  • T+Y (Communication): When stakeholders notified
  • T+Z (Mitigation): When incident owner took action
  • T+N (Resolution): When system returned to normal
  • Duration: Total time from detection to resolution

Root Cause Analysis (5 Whys)

Go beyond the obvious cause to find systemic issues:

Incident: Website down for 28 minutes

Why 1: Why did website go down?
Answer: Deployment v2.1.3 contained a bug causing infinite loop in auth service

Why 2: Why did the bug reach production?
Answer: Code review missed the issue; test suite didn't catch it

Why 3: Why didn't test suite catch the infinite loop?
Answer: Load/stress tests only run occasionally; not part of standard CI pipeline

Why 4: Why aren't load tests mandatory in CI?
Answer: Historically slow; team prioritized speed over reliability

Why 5: Why does team optimize for deploy speed over testing?
Answer: Pressure to ship features fast; no documented standard for testing rigor

ROOT CAUSE: Process gap - no mandatory load testing in CI; pressure to ship

Read the full file on GitHub · 288 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. 8d ago First seen · 288 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 2aeff0b2bd7a

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incident-postmortem is a skill published in the GitHub repository w95/awesome-claude-corporate-skills (198 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 2,396 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 2026-09-03.