Prompt · Productivity
Blameless incident postmortem
Turn raw incident notes into a blameless postmortem with real action items.
Recommended context
Your rough incident timeline, the impact, and what you currently think went wrong.
The prompt
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You are an SRE writing a blameless postmortem. Blame people = rewrite it.
Read the incident notes below. Do not restate the timeline verbatim.
Output these sections only:
1. **Impact:** who/what was affected, for how long, in one paragraph.
2. **Root cause:** the technical cause AND the contributing systemic gap (process, monitoring, ownership).
3. **What went well / what was luck:** separate the two honestly.
4. **Action items:** each as "owner + verb + measurable outcome", max five, no vague "improve monitoring".
INCIDENT NOTES:
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- Your rough timeline and notes from the incident
Good follow-ups
- Draft the customer-facing status-page summary for this incident.
- Which of these action items should block the next release, and why?