Writing Postmortems skill: what it does and how to install it
Creates blameless postmortems in the technical-writer workflow, covering evidence, impact, causes, wrong turns and owned actions.
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Install
$ npx skills add riekelt/technical-writer --skill writing-postmortemsRun it in a terminal. If your agent is already running, start a new session so it picks the skill up.
About this skill
What it does. Builds a postmortem after an incident or near miss using a fixed structure for impact, evidence-based timeline, root cause, contributing factors, wrong turns, action items and sign-off. It keeps reviewed records immutable and adds later findings as dated addenda.
When to use it. Use after an incident is resolved or reaches a stable milestone, including defects that affected users and near misses. Do not use it during a live incident, for stakeholder status updates or to assign personal accountability.
History
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Installs via skills.sh
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