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writing-postmortems
Use when writing a postmortem, incident report, or root-cause analysis after an outage, a defect that reached users, a data issue, or a near miss - or when turning an incident channel, alert log, or war-room thread into a durable document. Encodes the blameless framing, the evidence-only timeline, contributing factors, and owned action items. Use whenever something broke and the write-up must outlive the incident.
Works with
Install in three steps
- 1
Download the ZIP
One file per agent, plus INSTALL.md with the exact paths below.
- 2
Claude Code: copy SKILL.md into your skills folder
.claude/skills/writing-postmortems/SKILL.md # this project ~/.claude/skills/writing-postmortems/SKILL.md # every project
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Other agents: use the matching file
skill.mdc goes in Cursor’s .cursor/rules/. AGENTS.md works as GitHub Copilot instructions, a legacy .cursorrules, or a Codex / Gemini CLI instructions file.

