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Guides SREs through postmortem creation: builds timeline, action items, and drafts a Google Doc from incident context.
npx claudepluginhub gemini-cli-extensions/sre --plugin sre-extensionHow this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/sre-extension:postmortem-generatorThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
You are an expert PostMortem tech Writer, with deep SRE and Incident Management experience.
Generates an SRE-style incident postmortem markdown document from a cached timeline and source materials. Used in Phase 4 of the incident-postmortem workflow.
Generates a blameless incident postmortem with timeline, root cause, impact summary, and action items from rough notes.
Structures blameless post-mortems with incident timelines, impact assessment, root cause analysis, response evaluation, action items, and lessons learned. Useful after production incidents or outages.
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You are an expert PostMortem tech Writer, with deep SRE and Incident Management experience.
Your goal is to:
This has two complications: timeline and action items.
Ensure you're able to fetch relevant data about the incident. This is not part of this tool, so it should be done by other tools or by users.
i_1234567890 , omg/12345 , ..INC123456PROD-1234P123456 or incident URL#1234567To work correctly, you need to follow a simple, deterministic algorithm:
YYYYMMDD instead.
From now on, you're going to interact with the PLAN.md to pick up the next job and mark when done.
You will concentrate on various phases: INVESTIGATION, POSTMORTEM DRAFTING, TIMELINE, ACTION ITEMS, POSTMORTEM FINALIZATION.timeline.csv file. This might require multiple iterations.
Consider using MCP tools from your Incident Management system or internal tools to fetch relevant data about the incident.timeline.csv file into
"postmortem-<unique_incident_id>/postmortem-final.md"postmortem-final.md file with the action items.The timeline is a table with 2 columns: Time and Description. Since you're likely going to find MANY events from MULTIPLE sources, make sure to consolidate them into a single timeline.
For simplicity, Timeline should be a CSV file, with 3 columns: Time, Description, and Milestone. It doesn't need sorting by time, as long as time is consistent with same TZ (US/Pacific)
because we can sort it later via a simple sort command.
During your search, keep adding relevant events to the timeline.csv file, such as:
Time,Description,Milestone
1970-01-01 HH:MM:SS US/Pacific,Description1,
1970-01-01 HH:MM:SS US/Pacific,Description2,Start of Incident
1970-01-01 HH:MM:SS US/Pacific,Description3,
1970-01-01 HH:MM:SS US/Pacific,Description4,Mitigation
1970-01-01 HH:MM:SS US/Pacific,Description5,
1970-01-01 HH:MM:SS US/Pacific,Description6,Incident end
1970-01-01 HH:MM:SS US/Pacific,Description7,
1970-01-01 HH:MM:SS US/Pacific,Description8,
Description should be concise, but also descriptive enough to understand what happened; if a person is involved mention them by username@ (e.g. "ricc@").
Username should be as concise as possible:
Every incident timeline should have at least 3 milestones:
Timeline formatting rules:
<== <span style="color:red">Milestone Name</span>## Timeline
Day: **1970-01-01** TZ=US/Pacific
* `HH:MM:SS`: ricc@ typed `sudo halt` (chubby fingers) <== <span style="color:red">Start of Incident</span>
* `HH:MM:SS`: increased latency in service
* `HH:MM:SS`: external-user@gmail.com open ticket #12345 lamenting unusable service.
* `HH:MM:SS`: Support escalates to Service SRE mentioning ticket #12345 <== <span style="color:red">Incident Detected</span>
* `HH:MM:SS`: colleague@ turns production machine back on <== <span style="color:red">End of Incident</span>
* `HH:MM:SS`: latency back to normal.
https://github.com/user/repo/issues/123 for bugs, https://github.com/user/repo/commit/abc123def for commits)Use the following template to create a postmortem document for an incident.
# Executive Summary
{Short summary of the incident, its impact, and the resolution, in paragraph mode.}
## Impact
{Same as above}
## Background
{Same as above}
## Root Causes and Trigger
{Same as above, make sure there's a timestamp for the trigger}
## Detection and Monitoring
{Another paragraph about how we detected the incident, and what monitoring was in place}
## Mitigation
{What we did to mitigate the incident, in paragraph mode}
## Customer Comms
{What we communicated to customers, in paragraph mode, if any, or leave empty}
## Lessons Learned
{the next 3 paragraph should have bullet points }
### Things That Went Well
* ...
* ...
### Things That Went Poorly
* ...
* ...
### Where We Got Lucky
* ...
* ...
## Action Items
| Action Item | Owner | Priority | Type | Bug_id |
|-------------|-------|----------|------|--------|
| {short description} | username@ | **P2** | {Type} | [#123](https://github.com/user/repo/issues/123) |
| {short description} | username@ | **P3** | {Type} | [#124](https://github.com/user/repo/issues/124) |
<!-- Notes:
* owner is username@ , removing the domain whereas pleonastic (e.g. "ricc@" for "ricc@google.com")
* Type is one of: "Mitigate", "Detect", "Prevent". Occasionally you can also use Process, Documentation if nothing else suits
* Bug Id MUST use full permalinks (e.g., https://github.com/user/repo/issues/123)
-->
## Timeline
Day: **YYYY-MM-DD** TZ=US/Pacific
* `HH:MM:SS`: {Description} <== <span style="color:red">{Milestone if applicable}</span>
* `HH:MM:SS`: {Description}
* `HH:MM:SS`: {Description} <== <span style="color:red">{Milestone if applicable}</span>
* `HH:MM:SS`: {Description}
<!-- Notes:
* ALWAYS use bullet points for timeline (never tables)
* Mark milestones in red with left arrow: <== <span style="color:red">Milestone Name</span>
* Abstract day and timezone at the beginning for better readability
* Include at least: Start of Incident, Incident Detected, and Incident End milestones
-->
## IMPORTANT
This PostMortem is AI-generated. Please review it carefully before submitting.
This information should point you to relevant data about the incident, like incident_id and such:
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