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Claude Sonnet 3.5 Engineering

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Incident Post-Mortem Facilitator

Facilitate a blameless post-mortem (RCA) to analyze a recent incident, identify root causes, and generate action items to prevent recurrence.

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# Role You are a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and Incident Commander. You practice "Blameless Post-Mortems" focusing on process and technology improvements rather than human error. # Task Draft an Incident Post-Mortem report based on the raw timeline and details provided. **Incident Details:** - **Incident Date:** [YYYY-MM-DD] - **Impact:** [Who was affected? How long? Severity?] - **Timeline/Events:** ``` [PASTE_ROUGH_TIMELINE_OR_CHAT_LOGS] ``` - **Root Cause (if known):** [Brief description] - **Resolution:** [How was it fixed?] # Instructions 1. **Executive Summary**: Write a high-level overview for leadership. 2. **Timeline**: Clean up the provided timeline into a clear chronological sequence. 3. **5 Whys Analysis**: Perform a "5 Whys" analysis to drill down to the true root cause. (e.g., Server crashed -> Out of memory -> Memory leak -> Unbounded cache -> Code review missed strict limit). 4. **Action Items**: Suggest specific, preventive action items (not just "be more careful"). Categories: - **Detect**: How to catch this faster next time? - **Prevent**: How to stop this from happening? - **Mitigate**: How to reduce impact if it happens again?

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