Incident Postmortem Agent Skill
Incident Postmortem Agent Skill
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Trigger Phrase
Use the Incident Postmortem Agent Skill skill
Prompt
256 words# SKILL: Incident Postmortem Agent Skill
## Purpose
Create a blameless postmortem with timeline, impact, root causes, contributing factors, actions, and owner follow-up.
## When to Use
Use this when the user needs to: Create a blameless postmortem with timeline, impact, root causes, contributing factors, actions, and owner follow-up. It is designed for repeatable agent or automation work, not one-off fluffy prompting.
## Inputs Required
- Incident timeline
- Customer impact
- Detection method
- Resolution actions
- Evidence links
## Workflow
1. Build a factual timeline
2. Separate root cause from contributing factors
3. Identify detection and response gaps
4. Create corrective actions with owners
5. Remove blamey language and unsupported claims
## Output Format
Blameless postmortem draft with action register and executive summary.
## Quality Rules
- Ground every claim in supplied inputs or clearly mark it as an assumption.
- Prefer specific fields, examples, and decision points over generic advice.
- Include a test command and pass criteria so the skill can be evaluated.
- Keep the output usable by a human first and automation-ready second.
## Guardrails
- Do not send emails, publish posts, contact leads, change calendars, spend money, delete data, or alter production systems without explicit human approval.
- Do not invent facts, private details, legal claims, prices, or external data.
- For web or profile research, use current sources and separate evidence from inference.
- For connected tools, use the minimum permission needed and log the action taken.
## Test Command
Run this skill on a simple example for Incident Postmortem Agent Skill and return the expected output structure plus any missing inputs.
## Purpose
Create a blameless postmortem with timeline, impact, root causes, contributing factors, actions, and owner follow-up.
## When to Use
Use this when the user needs to: Create a blameless postmortem with timeline, impact, root causes, contributing factors, actions, and owner follow-up. It is designed for repeatable agent or automation work, not one-off fluffy prompting.
## Inputs Required
- Incident timeline
- Customer impact
- Detection method
- Resolution actions
- Evidence links
## Workflow
1. Build a factual timeline
2. Separate root cause from contributing factors
3. Identify detection and response gaps
4. Create corrective actions with owners
5. Remove blamey language and unsupported claims
## Output Format
Blameless postmortem draft with action register and executive summary.
## Quality Rules
- Ground every claim in supplied inputs or clearly mark it as an assumption.
- Prefer specific fields, examples, and decision points over generic advice.
- Include a test command and pass criteria so the skill can be evaluated.
- Keep the output usable by a human first and automation-ready second.
## Guardrails
- Do not send emails, publish posts, contact leads, change calendars, spend money, delete data, or alter production systems without explicit human approval.
- Do not invent facts, private details, legal claims, prices, or external data.
- For web or profile research, use current sources and separate evidence from inference.
- For connected tools, use the minimum permission needed and log the action taken.
## Test Command
Run this skill on a simple example for Incident Postmortem Agent Skill and return the expected output structure plus any missing inputs.
Before & After
❌ Without this prompt
Make me an automation for incident postmortem agent skill.
✅ With this prompt
Use the Incident Postmortem Agent Skill skill. Inputs: goal, systems, data fields, approval owner, and definition of done. Return the workflow, tests, guardrails, and approval checkpoint.
Install Instructions
Copy the body into Prompt Hub as a skill. For Agent Skills, save as SKILL.md or paste into the target agent/project. For n8n/Make/Voiceflow, use this as the build blueprint before importing any third-party JSON.
Test It
Test command:
Run Incident Postmortem Agent Skill with a tiny dummy case and verify it returns the declared output format, missing-input warnings, guardrails, and pass criteria.
Expected output:
Blameless postmortem draft with action register and executive summary.
Pass criteria:
- Passes when the output is specific, complete, safe, testable, approval-aware where needed, and immediately usable with light editing.
⚠️ Guardrails
- Human approval is required before external sends, publishing, destructive changes, spending money, calendar booking, CRM updates that change customer status, or production system changes. Use least-privilege tool access.
📁 Context File Tip
Source context: Sabrina Ramonov describes agents.sabrina.dev as a free library of AI agents and automations, including n8n and Make templates. Related source: https://agentskills.io/home. Agent-skill structure context: https://agentskills.io/home. Security context: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26328.
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