incident-readout

incident-readout is a skill for Claude Code from yeaight7/agent-powerups. It costs 30 tokens per session (552 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured incident readout writer for documenting what happened after a bug fix or complex debugging session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a summary covering the symptom, root cause, fix, evidence from repository history, and prevention actions for a review or handoff.
Why use it?
It preserves the investigation for people reviewing the change later and focuses on causes and prevention rather than blame.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the debugging-diagnostics plugin — 8 skills, 4 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a summary covering the symptom, root cause, fix, evidence from repository history, and prevention actions for a review or handoff.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yeaight7/agent-powerups/incident-readout
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 yeaight7/agent-powerups --skill incident-readout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yeaight7/agent-powerups

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install debugging-diagnostics, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 4 commands, 2 agents.

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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 552 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 $0.00030 $0.00552
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00221
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00055

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3f187f0a1ad4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

incident-readout 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 1mo 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.

plugins/debugging-diagnostics/skills/incident-readout/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

When a complex debugging session ends, produce an incident readout. This prevents knowledge loss and helps humans review the fix quickly. Keep it blameless: causes and prevention, not people.

When to Use

  • A bug fix landed after a non-trivial debugging session
  • An incident is resolved and needs a reviewable summary
  • Session knowledge would otherwise be lost at handoff

Inputs

  • The fix (diff or commits) and the debugging context from the session
  • The related PR or issue, if one exists

Workflow

  1. Reconstruct the facts from history — pull them from the repo rather than recalling them:

    git log --oneline -10                             # the fix commits
    git show <fix-commit> --stat                      # what the fix touched
    gh pr view <number> --json title,body,comments    # if a PR exists
    
  2. Fill the readout structure. Output an incident readout document (or print to terminal) using this structure:

    ### 1. The Symptom
    What was reported? (1-2 sentences)
    
    ### 2. The Root Cause
    What was the actual underlying technical reason for the failure? Be highly
    specific about the exact line of code, assumption, or state that failed.
    
    ### 3. The Fix
    What did we change to fix it? Provide a high-level summary of the
    structural change, not just a diff.
    
    ### 4. Prevention
    How do we ensure this never happens again? (e.g., "Added test case X",
    "Refactored module Y to be strongly typed").
    

Output

  • A four-section readout (Symptom / Root Cause / Fix / Prevention), as a document or terminal output

Verification

  • Root cause names the specific line, assumption, or state — not a vague area
  • Fix described structurally, not as a pasted diff
  • Prevention is a concrete action, not "be more careful"
  • Claims cross-checked against the actual commits/PR, not memory

Failure Modes

  • Symptom-as-cause — restating the error message in the Root Cause section.
  • Diff dumping — pasting the patch where a structural summary is needed.
  • Empty prevention — "fixed it" without a regression test or structural guard.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 1mo ago First seen · 66 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 3f187f0a1ad4

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incident-readout is a skill published in the GitHub repository yeaight7/agent-powerups (6 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 552 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-14.