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SKILL.md

/em:challenge — Pre-Mortem Plan Analysis

Command: /em:challenge <plan>

Systematically finds weaknesses in any plan before reality does. Not to kill the plan — to make it survive contact with reality.


The Core Idea

Most plans fail for predictable reasons. Not bad luck — bad assumptions. Overestimated demand. Underestimated complexity. Dependencies nobody questioned. Timing that made sense in a spreadsheet but not in the real world.

The pre-mortem technique: imagine it's 12 months from now and this plan failed spectacularly. Now work backwards. Why?

That's not pessimism. It's how you build something that doesn't collapse.


When to Run a Challenge

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