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Incident Post-Mortem
Facilitate a blameless post-mortem for: Incident: [description]
Role-Based
Prompt
Facilitate a blameless post-mortem for: Incident: [description]. Impact: [users affected, duration, severity]. Timeline: [key events]. Write a complete post-mortem document: (1) Incident summary (3 sentences). (2) Timeline (chronological, with detection delay noted). (3) Root cause analysis (use 5 Whys). (4) Contributing factors. (5) What went well. (6) Action items (each: owner, deadline, success metric). (7) How this changes our runbooks/alerting/architecture. Tone: blameless, learning-focused.
How to use this prompt
- 1
Copy the prompt above and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — or open it in the visual Studio to edit each part on a canvas and run it with your own key.
- 2
Replace any bracketed placeholders with your specifics. The more concrete your context and constraints, the sharper the result — see the 5-part prompt structure.
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Run it, then refine. Ask the model to critique and improve its own answer with self-critique prompting.
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