It's 2am. You just fixed a production incident. The last thing you want to do is write a post-mortem. deathlog does it for you in 30 seconds.
Run deathlog inside any git repo. That's it. Claude reads your history and builds the document.
deathlog connects your git history to Claude AI and generates a structured, professional post-mortem in seconds.
Automatically scans your git log, recent commits, deployment history, and error logs to understand what happened.
What broke? Who was affected? Is it resolved? That's all we need. No forms, no tickets, no long surveys.
Sends everything to Claude AI with a battle-tested prompt. Gets back a structured, professional post-mortem document.
Outputs a clean .md file ready to paste into Notion, Confluence, Linear, or email to your team. Done.
Here's what writing a post-mortem looks like before and after deathlog.
Spend 2 hours digging through git log trying to reconstruct the timeline
Manually search Slack for what people said during the incident
Write it all up from scratch in a blank document
It's now 4am. You're exhausted. The doc is terrible.
Most teams just skip it entirely and repeat the same mistakes
Run one command from your terminal — takes 4 seconds
AI reads your git history and reconstructs the timeline automatically
Answer 3 quick questions — 30 seconds total
Get a complete, professional Markdown document instantly
Go sleep. The post-mortem is done. Your team learns from it.
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
Automatically reads your last 30 days of commits, branches, and tags to understand your deployment history.
From command to complete document in under 10 seconds. No loading screens, no dashboards, no accounts.
Always outputs: Summary, Timeline, Root Cause, Impact, Action Items. Consistent every single time.
Any git repo, any stack, any language. macOS, Linux, WSL. No config required — just install and run.
100% open source on GitHub. MIT license. Read the code, fork it, improve it, make it yours.
Auto-post your post-mortem to a Slack channel. Tag team members. Create Linear issues. One command.
No account. No dashboard. One command.
Step 1 — Install
pip install deathlog
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Step 2 — Set your API key
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="sk-..."
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Step 3 — Run it
cd your-project && deathlog
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Requires Python 3.11+ and an Anthropic API key. ~$0.01 per post-mortem.