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Skill · Curated · Planning

Pre-mortem

Imagines the plan has already failed and works back: real threats, paper tigers and the elephants nobody mentions.

What you get

A ranked list of what is most likely to sink the plan, with the mitigations worth doing now.

What I changed, and why I run it

  • Cheap to run on a milestone plan before I approve it.
  • risk
  • planning
  • milestones

Source

Author
Paweł Huryn
Licence
MIT
Reviewed at
07b34f6

Reviewed 2026-10-17 Passed after edits: every file read by hand and checked for prompt injection, hidden text, network calls, shell execution and credential reads. Second opinion: skills.sh audits (opens in a new tab).

Not hosted here: get it from the author, at the commit I reviewed.

Updated 2026-10-17