# Mitigate Stage — Elaboration

## Criteria Guidance

### Good criteria — concrete and verifiable

- "Mitigation action is documented with exact commands or config changes applied"
- "Verification confirms user-facing impact has stopped, measured by the same metrics that triggered the incident"
- "Rollback plan exists in case the mitigation itself causes regression"

### Bad criteria — vague (no clear check)

- "Issue is mitigated"
- "Fix is applied"
- "Things are back to normal"

