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postmortem

A blameless incident postmortem: summary with impact numbers, a timeline, root cause and contributing factors, what went well and badly, and action items with owners.

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# Postmortem

**Intent.** A blameless account of an incident that helps the team learn and prevents a repeat. It describes systems and decisions, never blames people.

## Ground it

Write only what the sources say. Gather them yourself before writing a word:

- the incident notes, chat or pager timeline, and dashboards the user provides. Ask for them if they're missing: **never invent an incident, a timestamp or an impact number**;
- the commits that caused and fixed it (`git log --since … --until …`, `git show <sha>`), and the code paths involved.

Keep the list of files, commits and refs you read: they go in a **Sources** section at the bottom of the page and in `sources` when you register (`register_open_design_artifact` with kind `html`). If something the document needs isn't in the sources, ask the user, or mark it plainly as an open question. Never invent numbers, dates, names or quotes.

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