Post Mortems with AI AI Prompts
53 free, production-ready Post Mortems with AI AI prompts — copy-paste ready for ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor. Every prompt ships with fill-in placeholders, a worked example, and production-safety notes, so you get a usable answer on the first try.
- Post Mortems with AI Beginner
Incident Postmortem Drafter Prompt
Convert raw incident notes, Slack threads, and timelines into a blameless postmortem draft.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - Post Mortems with AI Intermediate
Postmortem Assumptions and Unknowns Extractor Prompt
Read a postmortem draft and surface every unstated assumption and open unknown that is being treated as settled fact, so the root-cause analysis and action items don't quietly rest on unverified claims.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Post Mortems with AI Intermediate
Postmortem to Game-Day Scenario Generator Prompt
Convert a real incident postmortem into a runnable game-day or chaos-engineering exercise so you can prove the fixes actually work under realistic failure conditions instead of assuming they do.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Post Mortems with AI Intermediate
Postmortem Incident Commander Decision Review Prompt
Review the key decisions an incident commander made during a response and evaluate each for local rationality given the information available at the time — blamelessly, focused on decision-support tooling and process.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Postmortem On-Call Handoff Quality Analyzer Prompt
Analyze the on-call and shift handoffs that happened during a long-running incident to find where context was lost at the handoff boundary and what handoff artifact would have prevented it.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Post Mortems with AI Intermediate
Postmortem RPO/RTO Data-Recovery Analysis Prompt
Analyze the data-loss and recovery aspects of an incident against RPO/RTO objectives — what data was lost, whether backups and restore met targets, and where recovery time exceeded them.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Post Mortems with AI Intermediate
Postmortem Runbook Adherence Checker Prompt
Compare what responders actually did during an incident against the documented runbook for that failure, surfacing where the runbook was skipped, wrong, missing, or out of date so the fix lands on the document and tooling, not the people.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Post Mortems with AI Intermediate
Postmortem Severity Classification Justifier Prompt
Turn an incident's impact facts and your org's SEV rubric into a defensible severity classification with written justification, plus flags for wherever the rubric is ambiguous.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Post Mortems with AI Intermediate
Postmortem Status-Page Communication Timeline Analyzer Prompt
Analyze the external customer communication cadence during an incident — status page update timing versus actual impact, tone, and accuracy — and recommend a concrete comms improvement.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Postmortem Vendor and Third-Party Dependency Incident Analyzer Prompt
Analyze an incident caused or worsened by a third-party dependency such as a cloud provider, SaaS API, or CDN, separating what the vendor did from how your own resilience responded, so the action items focus on what your team can actually control.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Post Mortems with AI Intermediate
Incident Metrics Extractor from a Postmortem Prompt
Extract clean, comparable reliability metrics (MTTD, MTTA, MTTM, MTTR, engagement, and handoff counts) from a finished blameless postmortem so incident data rolls up into trends instead of dying in a single document.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Post Mortems with AI Intermediate
Postmortem Escalation and Paging Delay Analyzer Prompt
Analyze how an incident was paged, acknowledged, and escalated to find where alerting and on-call routing added minutes to recovery, so the postmortem fixes the escalation path instead of blaming the responder who was reached last.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Post Mortems with AI Intermediate
Postmortem-to-Runbook Generator Prompt
Turn the diagnosis and mitigation steps buried in a one-off postmortem into a reusable, generalized runbook so the next responder to a similar incident recovers in minutes instead of re-deriving everything under pressure.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Post Mortems with AI Intermediate
Postmortem Blast-Radius & Dependency Mapper Prompt
Reconstruct the technical blast radius of an incident from the timeline — which services, dependencies, and downstream consumers were degraded, and how the failure propagated — so the impact section reflects the whole affected surface, not just the service that paged.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Post Mortems with AI Intermediate
Postmortem Participant Interview Question Generator Prompt
Generate tailored, blameless interview questions for each person who was involved in an incident — so the facilitator can surface contributing factors, decision context, and 'what made sense at the time' before drafting the postmortem.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Post Mortems with AI Intermediate
Postmortem Response-Toil & Automation-Candidate Finder Prompt
Scan an incident timeline for the manual, repetitive, and error-prone steps the responders had to perform by hand — and turn them into concrete automation, runbook, or tooling candidates for the action-item list.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Postmortem Action Item Recurrence-Risk Prioritizer Prompt
Rank a postmortem's action items by how much each reduces the chance and cost of the incident recurring, so an overloaded team ships the few fixes that actually move reliability instead of a long undifferentiated list.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
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Postmortem Closeout Definition-of-Done Verifier Prompt
Check a finished postmortem against a clear exit checklist before it is closed, so it ships with a verified timeline, quantified impact, system-level causes, owned action items, and no blame language.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
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Postmortem Contributing Factors vs Root Cause Classifier Prompt
Sort a postmortem's tangle of causes into the true root cause, the contributing factors, the proximate trigger, and the mitigating factors, so the document fixes the systemic source instead of stopping at the first plausible explanation.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
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Postmortem Review Pre-Read Pack Generator Prompt
Turn a draft postmortem into a concise pre-read pack that primes review attendees with the facts, open questions, and discussion goals so the blameless review meeting debates causes and fixes instead of reconstructing what happened.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
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Postmortem Human-Factors & Cognitive Load Analysis Prompt
Analyze how the incident's tooling, alerts, and process loaded responders' attention and decision-making, so the postmortem fixes the conditions that made good operators make understandable mistakes instead of blaming the operators.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
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Postmortem Latent Risk Extractor Prompt
Mine a postmortem for the latent, systemic risks an incident exposed but didn't directly trigger, so the team fixes the conditions that made the failure possible rather than only the immediate cause.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Postmortem Lessons-to-Training-Scenario Converter Prompt
Convert a real postmortem into a reusable tabletop or game-day scenario so the lessons get rehearsed by the on-call team instead of being read once and forgotten.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Postmortem Quarterly Systemic Themes Report Prompt
Roll up a quarter's worth of postmortems into a leadership-ready report that names the systemic themes driving incidents and recommends where to invest, turning a pile of individual writeups into a reliability strategy.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - Post Mortems with AI Intermediate
Postmortem Stakeholder Distribution Variants Prompt
Spin one approved postmortem into audience-tailored versions (executives, the engineering team, affected customers, and an internal wiki record) without changing the underlying facts, so each reader gets the right depth and framing.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
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Postmortem Timeline Dark-Time Analyzer Prompt
Break an incident timeline into detect, acknowledge, diagnose, mitigate, and recover phases, then quantify the 'dark time' in each so the postmortem targets the slowest, most fixable delays.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
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Failed Deploy and Rollback Postmortem Prompt
Write the postmortem for a bad deploy where the rollback also misbehaved — separating the deploy failure from the rollback failure so you fix both, not just the headline.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Near-Miss Writeup Generator Prompt
Turn a near-miss — the incident that almost happened but didn't — into a short, blameless writeup that captures the latent risk before it converts into a real outage.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Postmortem Action-Item SMART Rewriter Prompt
Rewrite vague postmortem action items ('improve monitoring', 'be more careful') into specific, owned, time-bound tasks that can actually be tracked to completion.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Postmortem Detection-Gap Analyzer Prompt
Walk the incident timeline to measure exactly where detection failed — time-to-detect, the signals that should have fired, and the cheapest alert that would have shrunk the gap.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Post Mortems with AI Advanced
Five-Whys vs Causal Graph Analysis Prompt
Run the same incident through both a linear five-whys chain and a multi-cause causal graph, then compare them so you don't collapse a systemic failure into one tidy root cause.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Post Mortems with AI Advanced
Postmortem Portfolio Prioritization Prompt
Look across many recent postmortems at once and rank where to actually invest — so reliability effort goes to the highest-leverage systemic gaps, not just the loudest recent incident.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Postmortem Readability Editing Pass Prompt
Do a structural and line edit on a finished postmortem so it's actually read — tightening jargon, fixing flow, and surfacing the takeaways without changing a single technical claim.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Postmortem SLO and Error-Budget Impact Prompt
Translate an incident into its SLO and error-budget terms — how much budget it burned, which SLO it threatens, and what that means for release posture — grounded only in the numbers you provide.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Post Mortems with AI Advanced
Security Incident Postmortem Drafter Prompt
Draft a postmortem for a security incident with the extra structure that kind needs — exposure scope, containment timeline, and disclosure considerations — without overstating what's confirmed.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Postmortem Counterfactual Analysis Prompt
Rigorously explore what would have detected or prevented this incident sooner — testing each counterfactual against what was actually knowable in the moment, so you avoid hindsight-driven action items.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Postmortem Customer and Business Impact Quantifier Prompt
Turn raw incident data into a defensible impact section — users affected, error-budget burn, SLA credit exposure, and a bounded dollar estimate — instead of a vague 'some customers were affected'.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Postmortem Executive Summary Translator Prompt
Translate a detailed technical postmortem into a one-page executive or board summary — impact, cause, response, and what changes — in business language, without distorting the facts or smuggling in blame.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Postmortem Findings to Engineering Tickets Prompt
Convert postmortem findings into well-scoped engineering tickets — each with a clear title, candidate owner role, acceptance criteria, defense type, and a realistic due date — so the lessons turn into tracked work instead of a buried action-items list.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Postmortem Format Selector Prompt
Decide whether this specific incident is best told as a narrative, a strict timeline, a 5-whys, or a contributing-factors analysis — before you start writing the document.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Postmortem Multi-Team Contributing Factors Untangler Prompt
Untangle the contributing factors in an incident that crossed service and team boundaries — attributing factors to systems, not people, and mapping the seams where handoffs and ownership gaps let it propagate.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Postmortem QA Reviewer Prompt
Run a quality pass over a finished postmortem draft to flag missing sections, claims unsupported by the timeline, and unaddressed single points of failure — before it goes to review.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Postmortem Sanitize-for-Public-Sharing Prompt
Prepare an internal postmortem for external or cross-customer sharing by finding secrets, PII, customer names, and internal details that must be stripped or redacted — without gutting the technical lesson.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Postmortem What-Went-Well Section Writer Prompt
Write a genuine 'what went well / strengths' section that captures the defenses and good calls that contained the incident — so the postmortem reinforces what to keep, not only what to fix.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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RCA Document Quality Scoring Rubric Prompt
Score a finished root-cause analysis document against a quality rubric and return specific gaps to fix before sign-off
- Claude
- ChatGPT
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Postmortem Blameful Language Detector Prompt
Scan a postmortem draft for blameful or judgmental language and rewrite it into blameless, systems-focused phrasing
- Claude
- ChatGPT
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Swiss-Cheese Contributing-Factors Analysis Prompt
Decompose an incident into the layered defenses that failed using the Swiss-cheese model, surfacing the latent and active contributing factors rather than a single root cause.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
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Postmortem Review Meeting Facilitation Prompt
Design and run an effective postmortem review meeting — agenda, timeboxes, facilitation scripts, and decision gates — so the room converges on systemic causes and committed actions instead of re-litigating the timeline.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
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Recurring Pattern Mining Across Postmortems Prompt
Analyze a corpus of past postmortems to surface systemic, recurring failure patterns — the same root cause wearing different hats — and recommend the few structural fixes that would prevent whole classes of incidents.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
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Blameless Root Cause Analysis Facilitation Prompt
Facilitate a rigorous blameless RCA that separates contributing factors from blame, surfaces systemic gaps, and produces durable action items — not a name-and-shame report.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
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Blameless Retrospective Facilitation Guide Prompt
Generate a facilitator's guide for running a blameless post-incident retrospective meeting — agenda, timeboxes, psychological-safety techniques, probing questions, and the artifacts to leave with.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
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Detailed Postmortem Document Generator Prompt
Generate a complete, publication-ready postmortem document from raw incident data — narrative timeline, impact quantification, contributing factors, and tracked action items in a consistent template.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
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Postmortem to Knowledge Base Article Prompt
Transform an internal postmortem into a polished, shareable knowledge-base article or engineering blog post — preserving the durable lessons while stripping sensitive details and adding context for a wider audience.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
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About these Post Mortems with AI AI prompts
This is a free, curated collection of Post Mortems with AI AI prompts for DevOps and platform engineers — prompt templates that turn Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor into a focused Post Mortems with AI assistant. Instead of re-explaining your setup every time, each prompt has fill-in placeholders, a realistic worked example, and explicit safety and back-out notes, so it's safe to use against production Post Mortems with AI.
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