From 090e17e1348d0e63a8539961d72c0e5d42e58806 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: quill Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 22:13:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] quill: draft incident notification template --- wizard-work/quill/incident-draft.md | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100644 wizard-work/quill/incident-draft.md diff --git a/wizard-work/quill/incident-draft.md b/wizard-work/quill/incident-draft.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e4ed156 --- /dev/null +++ b/wizard-work/quill/incident-draft.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Subject: [INCIDENT] Payment processing degraded — ETA 30 minutes + +Team, + +We are currently experiencing degraded payment processing for transactions +above $1,000. Transactions under $1,000 are flowing normally. + +Impact: + - Affected: Card and ACH payments > $1,000 + - Unaffected: Sub-$1,000 card, all ACH under $1,000, refunds + - Error rate: 12% (baseline <0.5%) + - First detected: 14:22 UTC + - Current status: Investigating; rollback candidate identified + +Root cause so far: + - The fraud-scoring service v3.2 update (deployed 14:15 UTC) introduced + a latency spike for high-value requests, causing upstream timeouts. + +Next update at 14:45 UTC or when resolved, whichever comes first. + +— On-call engineering