writing-postmortems
Skill from riekelt/technical-writer
Install
npx skills add riekelt/technical-writer --skill writing-postmortems
Runs the open skills CLI and installs the skill for your agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor …). Alternatively copy the skill folder into .claude/skills/ or upload it in Claude.ai under Settings → Skills.
What does the writing-postmortems skill do?
Description from the SKILL.md in the source repository.
Questions about writing-postmortems
What does the writing-postmortems skill do?
Use when writing a postmortem, incident report, or root-cause analysis after an outage, a defect that reached users, a data issue, or a near miss - or when turning an incident channel, alert log, or war-room thread into a durable document. Encodes the blameless framing, the evidence-only timeline, contributing factors, and owned action items. Use whenever something broke and the write-up must outlive the incident.
How do I install writing-postmortems?
In a terminal: npx skills add riekelt/technical-writer --skill writing-postmortems. The skills CLI asks which agents to install it for. In Claude.ai you can upload the skill folder as a ZIP under Settings → Skills.
Which agents can use writing-postmortems?
Skills use the open SKILL.md format, which Claude Code, Claude.ai, the Claude API, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and other agents support.
Is writing-postmortems safe to use?
Our automatic check found no risky patterns (piped shell scripts, hidden characters, secret access, prompt overrides). It is not a full audit – read the SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.
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