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Post-mortem on incidents

davekilleen By davekilleen schedule Updated 1/30/2026

name: incident-review description: Post-mortem on incidents role_groups: [engineering, operations] jtbd: | Incidents happen and learnings get lost without proper post-mortems. This gathers incident notes and timeline, prompts for root cause analysis, documents action items, and saves to 06-Resources/Learnings/ so you build institutional knowledge and prevent recurrence. time_investment: "30-45 minutes per incident"

Purpose

Document incident learnings through structured post-mortem to prevent recurrence.

Usage

  • /incident-review [incident-name] - Review specific incident

Steps

  1. Gather incident context:

    • Timeline of events
    • Systems affected
    • Customer impact
    • Duration/downtime
  2. Prompt for root cause analysis:

    • What happened?
    • Why did it happen?
    • Why wasn't it caught earlier?
  3. Identify action items:

    • Immediate fixes
    • Long-term prevention
    • Monitoring improvements
    • Process changes
  4. Create post-mortem document in 06-Resources/Learnings/


Output Format

# Incident Post-Mortem: [Incident]

**Date:** [When occurred]
**Duration:** [Length]
**Severity:** [Critical/Major/Minor]

## Impact
- **Users affected:** [Count/percentage]
- **Services impacted:** [List]
- **Business impact:** [Description]

## Timeline
- [Time] - [Event]
- [Time] - [Event]

## Root Cause
[Analysis of why this happened]

## Action Items
- [ ] [Immediate fix] - Owner: [Name] - Due: [Date]
- [ ] [Prevention measure] - Owner: [Name] - Due: [Date]

## What We Learned
1. [Learning 1]
2. [Learning 2]
Install via CLI
npx skills add https://github.com/davekilleen/Dex --skill incident-review
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