After-Action Report

After-Action Report is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by rampstackco in claude-skills.

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Install After-Action Report

Copy After-Action Report into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills/tree/main/skills/after-action-report ~/.claude/skills/after-action-report

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/after-action-report/SKILL.md in rampstackco/claude-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/after-action-report
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What After-Action Report does

After-Action Report runs a structured postmortem or retrospective on a launch, incident, or finished project. It helps capture timeline, root cause, contributing factors, and action items for future improvements.

After-Action Report is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. After-Action Report comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agents, anthropic, claude and claude-ai.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

After-Action Report

Run a structured retrospective on a launch, incident, or completed project. Produce actionable lessons, not just a document.

This skill is for after-the-fact analysis. For active incident response, use incident-response. For planning launches, use launch-runbook.

When to use

After any incident (any severity)
After every major launch
At the end of a project (sprint retro, quarterly retro, project closeout)
When a recurring issue has happened enough times to demand investigation
When a decision didn't work out and the team wants to learn

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about After-Action Report

What else does rampstackco publish alongside After-Action Report?
After-Action Report is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from rampstackco/claude-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Content Collaboration, Accessibility Audit and Ads Creative Development. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way After-Action Report does, and is maintained by rampstackco in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the rampstackco/claude-skills page.
How does After-Action Report compare to other Writing skills?
After-Action Report ranks #607 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of After-Action Report against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.