premortem

Installation
SKILL.md

Premortem

Imagine the plan already failed, then explain why. This "prospective hindsight" tense-shift (Klein, HBR 2007) generates ~30% more failure causes than asking "what could go wrong?" — and the causes are more specific. The skill turns that mechanism into a repeatable run that ends in a revised plan, not just a list of worries.

Workflow Routing

Trigger Workflow
"premortem this", "run a premortem", "what could kill this", high-stakes plan Workflows/RunPremortem.md (full: parallel deep-dive agents)
"quick premortem", small/personal decision, fast gut-check, thin context Workflows/QuickPremortem.md (solo single-pass, no fan-out)
"update the premortem skill", add/fix a workflow Workflows/Update.md

Default to RunPremortem for anything with real stakes. Drop to QuickPremortem only when the decision is small or the user explicitly wants speed.

The Mechanism (don't skip the framing)

Installs
20
GitHub Stars
84
First Seen
May 31, 2026
premortem — julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills