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Incident Report

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Four-prompt incident log for capturing what happened, who was affected, root cause, and the fix.

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WHAT IT DOES

  • —What happened
  • —Impact
  • —Root cause
  • —Fix

TRIGGERS

incidentincident list / incident history

DATA

local only
// ~/.clyde/journal/incident.json
[
  {
    "date": "2026-03-06T09:14:00Z",
    "template": "incident",
    "fields": {
      "what_happened": "API returned 503s for ~12 minutes",
      "impact": "~200 users couldn't load the dashboard",
      "root_cause": "Memory leak in the caching layer under load",
      "fix": "Rolled back to v2.3.1, patching in v2.3.2"
    }
  }
]

Entries are stored as JSON files at ~/.clyde/journal/<template>.json—one file per template, array of entries with date and field values. Nothing is sent to a server. No account required.

This is a built-in Clyde command. No installation required—it ships with every copy of the app.