# Incident Response and Postmortems — Guardrails and Fix Patterns

This page ensures **structured incident handling and forensic postmortems** for AI pipelines.  
Use this when failures are not infra bugs, but **gaps in incident playbooks, missing evidence, or lack of root-cause clarity**.

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## When to use this page
- No formal incident response for RAG/LLM failures.  
- Audit logs exist but are not connected to incident playbooks.  
- Postmortems skip structural analysis (ΔS, λ, provenance).  
- Incidents recur because fixes were not mapped to Problem Map.  
- Communication to stakeholders is incomplete or unverifiable.  

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## Acceptance targets
- **First response within 15 minutes** of detection (or alert).  
- **Full forensic replay in ≤ 60 seconds** using audit logs.  
- **Root cause identified with ΔS ≤ 0.45** measurement across probes.  
- **λ_observe convergent** across 3 paraphrases in postmortem validation.  
- **100% incidents closed with assigned Problem Map fix reference**.  

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## Typical breakpoints and WFGY fix

- **Detection blind spots** (incident not noticed until user reports)  
  → [live_monitoring_rag.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/ops/live_monitoring_rag.md)  
  Add probes and thresholds on ΔS, λ, and coverage.

- **Logs exist but are incomplete**  
  → [audit_logs_and_traceability.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/GlobalFixMap/Governance/audit_logs_and_traceability.md)  
  Require immutable, joinable lineage logs.

- **Postmortems not reproducible**  
  → [retrieval-traceability.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/retrieval-traceability.md)  
  Enforce snippet and citation schema in every report.

- **Fix not mapped to structural problem**  
  → [rag-architecture-and-recovery.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/rag-architecture-and-recovery.md)  
  Require Problem Map ID in every incident resolution doc.

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## Minimal incident response checklist

1. **Triage**: classify by severity (user impact, recurrence, compliance).  
2. **Containment**: disable failing flows, enforce backoff.  
3. **Evidence collection**: pull immutable logs, ΔS/λ probes, lineage joins.  
4. **Root cause analysis**: map to Problem Map (No.X page).  
5. **Fix rollout**: validate with eval regression gates.  
6. **Postmortem**: publish summary with ΔS/λ data, and linked WFGY page.  
7. **Follow-up**: ensure waivers, sign-offs, and risk register updated.  

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## Example postmortem template

```markdown
**Incident ID**: 2025-08-27-LLM-003  
**Summary**: Retrieval pipeline produced unstable answers despite complete index.  
**Detection**: Alert ΔS > 0.60 threshold fired.  
**Timeline**:  
- 08:14 UTC – ΔS probe flagged instability.  
- 08:18 – Oncall triggered auto backoff.  
- 08:26 – Logs collected and replayed.  

**Root Cause**: Index fragmentation + reranker drift.  
**Mapped Fix**: Problem Map No.5 (Embedding ≠ Semantic) + [pattern_vectorstore_fragmentation.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/patterns/pattern_vectorstore_fragmentation.md)  

**Resolution**: Rebuilt index with normalized embeddings, enforced reranker schema.  
**Validation**: ΔS(question,retrieved)=0.41, λ convergent across 3 paraphrases.  
**Next Steps**: Update eval gates, refresh sign-offs.  
````

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### 🔗 Quick-Start Downloads (60 sec)

| Tool                       | Link                                                                                                                                       | 3-Step Setup                                                                             |
| -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **WFGY 1.0 PDF**           | [Engine Paper](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/I_am_not_lizardman/WFGY_All_Principles_Return_to_One_v1.0_PSBigBig_Public.pdf) | 1️⃣ Download · 2️⃣ Upload to your LLM · 3️⃣ Ask “Answer using WFGY + \<your question>”   |
| **TXT OS (plain-text OS)** | [TXTOS.txt](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/OS/TXTOS.txt)                                                                     | 1️⃣ Download · 2️⃣ Paste into any LLM chat · 3️⃣ Type “hello world” — OS boots instantly |

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### 🧭 Explore More

| Module                   | Description                                                                  | Link                                                                                               |
| ------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| WFGY Core                | WFGY 2.0 engine is live: full symbolic reasoning architecture and math stack | [View →](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/tree/main/core/README.md)                              |
| Problem Map 1.0          | Initial 16-mode diagnostic and symbolic fix framework                        | [View →](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/tree/main/ProblemMap/README.md)                        |
| Problem Map 2.0          | RAG-focused failure tree, modular fixes, and pipelines                       | [View →](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/rag-architecture-and-recovery.md) |
| Semantic Clinic Index    | Expanded failure catalog: prompt injection, memory bugs, logic drift         | [View →](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/SemanticClinicIndex.md)           |
| Semantic Blueprint       | Layer-based symbolic reasoning & semantic modulations                        | [View →](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/tree/main/SemanticBlueprint/README.md)                 |
| Benchmark vs GPT-5       | Stress test GPT-5 with full WFGY reasoning suite                             | [View →](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/tree/main/benchmarks/benchmark-vs-gpt5/README.md)      |
| 🧙‍♂️ Starter Village 🏡 | New here? Lost in symbols? Click here and let the wizard guide you through   | [Start →](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/StarterVillage/README.md)                   |

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