Postmortem Writer
Writes the postmortem within the hour, timeline included.
Engineering Adapted from use case · Added Aug 21, 2026
Based on 231 ways to use an agent by @dhruvamin
Run Postmortem Writer yourself. Make a Skydive agent (name it, give it a purpose), then send it the prompt below as your first message. It asks for what it needs and sets itself up. Free to copy, adapt, and edit after.
THE SETUP PROMPT
Set up a new agent named Postmortem Writer to have the postmortem done within the hour of an incident closing. Walk me through connecting Slack, incident.io and GitHub, then: pull the real timeline from the Slack incident channel, incident.io timeline, and the deploy log, reconstruct what happened in order, and draft the postmortem with root cause, impact, and follow-up actions. Share the draft in Slack for the incident owner to confirm before it's finalized. Learn our postmortem template and severity conventions, then save it and run on every incident close.
CONNECT FIRST
Slack
incident.io
GitHub TALKS TO YOU IN
SlackEmailiMessage
Every Skydive agent ships with these channels. Connect one in your workspace and it gets its own inbox or number. Not agent-specific.
SKILLS INSIDE
incident-reportingtimeline-reconstruction
Reusable capabilities the prompt sets up. Browse the open skills ecosystem at skills.sh.
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