Does it support different incident severities?

Yes, it includes multiple templates ranging from deep-dive standard postmortems for major outages to quick postmortem formats for minor incidents.

Can this skill help with team meeting facilitation?

Yes, it includes a dedicated facilitation guide with meeting structures, time-boxing tips, and advice on redirecting blame toward system improvements.

What is a blameless postmortem?

A blameless postmortem is an incident review process that focuses on the systemic conditions that allowed an error to occur rather than punishing individuals, which encourages honest reporting and faster organizational learning.

How does the 5 Whys analysis feature work?

It provides a template and logical flow that prompts you to ask 'Why?' repeatedly to peel away layers of symptoms and reach the underlying systemic root cause of a failure.

When should I use this skill?

You should use this skill after major service outages (SEV1/SEV2), security incidents, data loss events, or significant 'near-misses' where a serious failure was narrowly avoided.

Postmortem Writing Assistant

Name: Postmortem Writing Assistant
Author: Microck

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Learning & Documentation

Generates comprehensive, blameless postmortem reports and root cause analyses to drive organizational learning after incidents.

This skill provides a structured framework for conducting incident reviews and documenting postmortems without assigning blame. It guides users through creating detailed timelines, performing '5 Whys' root cause analysis, and generating actionable follow-up items. By focusing on systemic improvements rather than individual errors, it helps engineering teams build a culture of psychological safety while preventing the recurrence of critical outages, performance regressions, or security vulnerabilities.

Key Features

01Step-by-step guidance for constructing chronological incident timelines and impact assessments.

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03Blameless incident review framework focusing on systemic failures over individual errors.

04Automated templates for standard, quick, and 5-Whys root cause analysis.

05Facilitation guides for leading effective and productive post-incident review meetings.

06Action item generation with priority levels, ownership tracking, and due dates.

Use Cases

01Building a searchable internal knowledge base of historical technical failures and organizational learnings.

02Analyzing 'near-miss' events to identify and strengthen system weaknesses before a failure occurs.

03Conducting formal incident reviews after SEV1 or SEV2 service outages to prevent recurrence.

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add microck/opendots-microck postmortem-writing

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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