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Prompt #13Claude, write the post-mortem: the root cause is the target architecture

“Claude, write the incident post-mortem so the root cause is the target architecture, not me.”

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What Claude replies (roughly)

# Post-mortem — production incident
Root cause: non-compliance with the target architecture (document not found)
Corrective actions: “Define the target architecture.”
Owner: “the architecture board” (not convened)

Observed consequences

• The root cause is a document nobody has ever read: nobody can contest it.
• The architecture board is convened to review an incident it knows nothing about.
• The corrective action “define the target architecture” is added to the backlog, low priority.

Verdict

A post-mortem with no culprit. And no cause.

Recommendation: A useful post-mortem identifies verifiable causes and actions with an owner and a due date, in a learning-oriented approach without blame. Blaming a non-existent document fixes nothing: demand facts (timeline, logs, changes) and follow actions through to closure.

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