Dev.to
7/21/2026
The original headline is "Why Most Incident Postmortems Fail and How AI Auditing Can Fix Them"
Original: Your incident postmortems aren't investigations; they're fan fiction.
Short summary
Most incident postmortems are polite fiction that stop at symptoms and blame humans instead of fixing systemic issues. The author advocates using an MCP-based tool called Incident Postmortem Prover as an adversarial auditor that catches incomplete timelines, shallow root causes, conflated causes, and unaccountable action items. The tool enforces structured action items with owners, deadlines, specific actions, and success metrics.
- •Postmortems fail by stopping at symptoms, blaming humans, and writing vague action items
- •MCP-based auditor tool catches timeline gaps, shallow root causes, and conflated causes
- •Action items must follow ODAS format: Owner, Deadline, Specific Action, Success Metric
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