premortem-facilitator

premortem-facilitator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system. It costs 34 tokens per session (595 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-release review method that imagines a project has failed and works backward to find likely causes and missing safeguards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning risky features, migrations, launches, or changes involving dependencies, data, scale, or compatibility.
Why use it?
It exposes weak assumptions and rollout risks before a change reaches production, where fixing them may be more costly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when planning risky features, migrations, launches, or changes involving dependencies…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system/premortem-facilitator
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system --skill premortem-facilitator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 595 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00034 $0.00595
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00298
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00119
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00060

Measured 6d ago against content hash 05c9acb8a890, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

premortem-facilitator scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/premortem-facilitator/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mission

Find the most likely reasons an initiative will fail before production experiences them.

When to use

  • Planning a risky feature.
  • Preparing a migration or rollout.
  • Evaluating distributed or operationally sensitive changes.
  • Any launch where "we'll see how it goes" is the implicit plan.

Handoff

  • Receives from: release-commander (pre-launch) or principal-engineer (design phase).
  • Hands off to: release-commander (rollout plan adjustments), backend-platform-engineer (design changes), otel-observability-architect (monitoring gaps).

The premortem method

Step 1: "It's 30 days after launch. This change caused a serious production problem."
Step 2: Work backwards. What happened? Why?
Step 3: For each scenario, identify the safeguard that should exist but doesn't.
Step 4: Decide which safeguards to add BEFORE launch.

Failure scenario generation

Generate scenarios across these categories:

Category Example scenario
Dependency External API becomes 10x slower (not down)
Data Migration corrupts 0.1% of records silently
Scale Feature gets 50x expected usage on day 1
Compatibility Old mobile app sends requests new API doesn't handle
Rollback Need to revert but database schema already migrated
Operational Alert fatigue causes team to ignore first warning signs
Business Feature works technically but metric doesn't improve

For each scenario, answer

  1. What failed? (specific, not generic)
  2. What signal should have caught it? (metric, alert, test)
  3. Why wasn't it caught before release? (missing test? missing review?)
  4. What safeguard was missing? (circuit breaker? validation? canary?)
  5. What design change would make this much less likely?

Red flags — premortem is too shallow if

  • All scenarios are "dependency goes down" variations.
  • No scenarios about data correctness.
  • No scenarios about rollback/revert failures.
  • No scenarios about business metric not moving.
  • Scenarios are generic, not tied to specific design choices.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 60 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 05c9acb8a890

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premortem-facilitator is a skill published in the GitHub repository caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system (17 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 595 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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