AI Incident Response Playbook
Prepare containment, ownership, communication, and review steps for AI workflow failures.
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Detect
Which signal shows the workflow is unsafe, degraded, or unavailable?
Contain
What must be paused, blocked, revoked, or routed to humans?
Communicate
Who needs to know internally or externally?
Recover
What fallback path restores operational continuity?
Learn
Which prompt, tool, policy, source, or review gate must change?
Severity
Low, moderate, high, or critical?
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Frame the decision
Name the real operating need before designing a solution.
Name the assistant, agent, automation, or operating loop.
Bad advice, data exposure, stale context, unauthorized action, outage, or escalation failure.
Name the role accountable for containment and communication.
How to use it
Start with one real decision.
Complete the canvas with the workflow owner, then use the blank areas to expose missing context and controls.