production-postmortem-pattern

What problem does it solve?

This Skill solves the problem of inconsistent, hard-to-reuse incident postmortems by giving you a single 7-section structure that captures symptoms, root cause (without blaming people), resolution, prevention, and lessons learned.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Standardized 7-section postmortems: Forces a complete narrative from “what happened” to “how we prevent it next time.”
• System-focused 5-Why RCA: Guides teams to find system/process causes rather than “who made a mistake.”
• Action item tracking and skill extraction: Turns outcomes into measurable tasks and promotes recurring fixes into future skills.
• Book case-study integration with anonymization: Converts internal postmortems into shareable external case studies while redacting sensitive information.

Quick Start

Use the production-postmortem-pattern skill to copy the provided postmortem template into your incident docs folder, then fill the 7 sections and the action-items table for the next postmortem.