Write effective blameless postmortems with root cause analysis, timelines, and action items. Use when conducting incident reviews, writing postmortem documents, or improving incident response processes.
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71%
Does it follow best practices?
Impact
92%
1.26xAverage score across 3 eval scenarios
Passed
No known issues
Optimize this skill with Tessl
npx tessl skill review --optimize ./tests/ext_conformance/artifacts/agents-wshobson/incident-response/skills/postmortem-writing/SKILL.mdStandard postmortem document structure
Blameless framing
100%
100%
Timeline UTC table
100%
100%
Timeline specificity
100%
100%
RCA proximate cause
60%
100%
RCA contributing factors
100%
100%
5 Whys analysis
0%
100%
Detection structure
0%
100%
Response structure
40%
100%
Impact three-part
25%
100%
Lessons learned three-part
0%
100%
Action items table format
60%
100%
All action items have owners
100%
100%
Visual evidence references
100%
100%
Executive Summary present
100%
100%
Postmortem meeting facilitation
60-minute total duration
100%
100%
Five meeting segments
0%
100%
Opening time allocation
100%
100%
Timeline Review time allocation
100%
100%
Analysis Discussion time allocation
0%
100%
Action Items time allocation
0%
100%
Closing time allocation
100%
100%
Blameless reminder in opening
100%
100%
Blame redirection tactic
100%
100%
Tangent management
100%
100%
Quiet participant engagement
100%
100%
Dissenting views
0%
100%
Quick postmortem and action item quality
Simplified format used
100%
0%
What Happened section
100%
75%
Timeline section present
100%
100%
Root Cause section present
100%
100%
Fix section present
50%
50%
Lessons section present
37%
100%
Blameless framing
83%
66%
Specific timestamps
100%
100%
Action items not busywork
100%
100%
Action items have owners
100%
100%
Severity and duration in header
100%
100%
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