Incident Status Update

Draft internal and external status messages during an incident.

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Draft incident communications from the facts I provide. Produce: 1. Internal Slack update (technical, timeline-focused) 2. External status page update (user impact, workaround, next update time) 3. What not to say yet (unknowns) Calm, factual tone. No ETA unless confident.

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