Dev builds AI-assisted incident-response tool with server-enforced two-lead approval gate

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A developer has built 'Incident War Room', an open-source incident-management app designed for on-call engineering teams, submitted as part of the Sanity hackathon. The tool features a live incident timeline powered by Sanity's real-time API, requiring sign-off from two separate on-call leads before any incident can be escalated to SEV1 severity. Crucially, the approval gate is enforced server-side through a Next.js Server Action, meaning it cannot be bypassed by directly writing to the backend. Once an incident is resolved, the timeline is frozen and an LLM automatically drafts a postmortem including root cause analysis and action items. The app was built using Next.js 16 and Sanity as the full backend, with the entire codebase generated via Claude Code following pre-written architecture and schema documentation.

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