CRONHAVEN
FREE PROMPT
// FOR DEVOPS, SRE AND CLOUD
THE POSTMORTEM PROMPT.
Turn your incident notes into a blameless postmortem first draft that marks everything it inferred, so you know exactly what to check.
Blameless by design: systems and gaps, not people.
A full worked example: a 92-minute database outage, written up end to end.
Action items typed as prevent, detect or mitigate.
WHAT THE DRAFT GIVES YOU
6 SECTIONS / 1 PROMPT
// 01 / SECTION
SUMMARY & IMPACT
What broke, for how long, and who felt it, with numbers wherever your notes have them. Anything it had to guess is flagged.
NUMBERS FROM YOUR NOTES
// 02 / SECTION
TIMELINE
Your channel log and scratch notes, put in order. Anything it filled in rather than read is marked as inferred.
INFERENCES MARKED
// 03 / SECTION
ROOT CAUSE
The underlying failure rather than the first symptom, with the open questions called out so you know what still needs proving.
REVIEW THIS ONE
// 04 / SECTION
CONTRIBUTING FACTORS
The gaps that let it happen or slowed fix: missing alerts, missing runbooks, wrong first moves.
SYSTEMS, NOT PEOPLE
// 05 / SECTION
WHAT WENT WELL
The calls that kept it from getting worse, written down so they become practice instead of luck. Credit goes to your decisions.
BLAMELESS BY DESIGN
// 06 / SECTION
ACTION ITEMS
Each one typed as prevent, detect or mitigate, so the list covers more than the one fix everyone already agreed on.
PREVENT / DETECT / MITIGATE
// made for
OPS ENGINEERS WHO WANT AI TO DRAFT, NOT DECIDE.
On-call engineers who owe a postmortem after a long night
SRE and DevOps teams that run blameless reviews
Anyone moving into ops who wants a solid postmortem structure
Anyone hoping AI will find the root cause for them
Teams looking for someone to blame
// AN EXCERPT
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Inferred: the notes do not give a request-failure count or an affected-customer figure. Both should be added before this is circulated.
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FROM THE WORKED EXAMPLE
IMPACT SECTION · 92-MINUTE OUTAGE
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