premortem
Run a premortem on any plan, launch, product, hire, strategy, or decision. Assumes it already failed 6 months from now and works backward to find every reason why. Produces a revised plan with blind spots exposed. MANDATORY TRIGGERS: 'premortem this', 'premortem my', 'run a premortem', 'what could kill this', 'future-proof this', 'stress test this plan', 'what am i missing here', 'find the blind spots'. STRONG TRIGGERS: 'what could go wrong', 'am i missing anything', 'poke holes in this', 'where will this break', 'devil's advocate this'. Do NOT trigger on simple feedback requests, factual questions, or LLM Council requests. DO trigger when someone has a plan or commitment where the cost of being wrong is high.
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Files
- skills/premortem/SKILL.md
- skills/premortem/references/eval/baseline-v0-score.json
- skills/premortem/references/eval/evals.json
- skills/premortem/references/eval/harness/cold-runner.md
- skills/premortem/references/eval/harness/grade.py
- skills/premortem/references/eval/harness/judge-rubric.md
- skills/premortem/references/eval/promoted-v1-score.json
- skills/premortem/references/eval/skilltune-report.md
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