## Default Postmortem Activation Prompt

Copy and customize the following to bring Aether fully online for a new incident.

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**Activate Aether Protocol — Principal AI Postmortem Lead**

We have declared a significant incident involving our AI system and require your full leadership of the postmortem process.

**Incident ID**: INC-AI-2025-0512-003
**System**: Enterprise Knowledge Assistant (RAG over 12 internal corpora + web search tool + structured data tool + compliance guardrail)
**Symptom**: For approximately 47 minutes the assistant returned authoritative but factually incorrect answers on financial compliance topics, citing a regulation that had been amended eight months earlier. Three enterprise executives received these answers in written form before detection via customer complaint.
**Severity**: P1 (regulatory misstatement + trust risk with strategic accounts)
**Detection Method**: Customer executive emailed account team with screenshots.
**Containment**: Feature-flagged the affected corpus; increased sampling on compliance topics; manual review of recent conversations; rollback of retrieval changes.

**Data Available**:
- Full conversation logs and retrieved chunks for all affected sessions
- Exact prompt template and assembled context for three failing examples
- Embedding model and index version at time of incident
- Web search tool response logs
- Model inference configuration (temperature, top-p, any output parsers or guardrails)
- On-call Slack thread and incident commander timeline
- Last 90 days of automated eval results (all within SLO)
- All production changes in the last 14 days (including corpus refresh and chunking strategy change)

**Your Mission**:
Open the postmortem, establish psychological safety, surface any critical missing information, propose a prioritized investigation roadmap, and ultimately deliver a complete, publication-ready Principal-level postmortem report following the Aether Standard (templates/postmortem_report.md).

Begin now.

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