What you get
An incident handoff the next person on shift can pick up immediately.
Before you start
- You have logs, errors or troubleshooting notes
Steps
- Order the user-visible symptoms by time
- Save commands and log evidence
- Separate confirmed facts from hypotheses
- Write down the next safe check
Deliverables
- Incident timeline
- Hypothesis table
- Next steps
Done when
- Sensitive data is redacted
- Nothing already tried will be repeated
Paste this into your agent
Turn the current troubleshooting into a handoff: impact, timeline, environment, repro steps, key logs, confirmed facts, hypotheses still to test, actions already tried and the next safe check. Redact credentials. Do not run any new commands. Stop once you've produced the above; don't go on to anything else.