pre-mortem-facilitator

pre-mortem-facilitator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from codebygarv/Ai-skills. It costs 28 tokens per session (347 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning exercise that assumes a project or deployment failed months after launch, then works backward to identify what went wrong. It examines technical, operational, team, and user-adoption risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before major launches, migrations, rewrites, cloud-vendor decisions, or projects where risks and ownership are unclear.
Why use it?
It brings hidden risks and uncomfortable concerns to the surface before a launch, migration, rewrite, or major dependency choice. It also identifies early warning signs and preventive controls.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it before major launches, migrations, rewrites, cloud-vendor decisions, or projects where risks and ownership are unclear.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/codebygarv/ai-skills/pre-mortem-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 codebygarv/Ai-skills --skill pre-mortem-facilitator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codebygarv/Ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 347 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 $0.00028 $0.00347
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00173
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00035

Measured 5d ago against content hash 1681ccf51cfb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pre-mortem-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 5d 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/reasoning/pre-mortem-facilitator/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Purpose

Uncover hidden risks before launch by assuming the project has completely failed 6 months in the future, then working backward to diagnose why.

When to Use

  • Prior to kicking off a major migration, rewrite, or product launch.
  • When a plan feels "too smooth" and team members are hesitant to voice doubts.
  • Before committing to a major third-party dependency or cloud vendor.

What to Analyze

  1. The Disaster Scenario: Assume it is 6 months post-launch and the project was rolled back or caused massive downtime.
  2. Failure Vectors:
    • Technical (data loss, cascading latency, schema lockups).
    • Operational (on-call burnout, missing runbooks, metric blindness).
    • Organizational (team dependencies, key-person risk, unclear ownership).
    • Adoption (users rejected the new UX, edge cases broke integrations).
  3. Early Warning Indicators: Leading indicators that signal failure is beginning.
  4. Preventative Controls: Interventions to implement immediately.

Output Format

  • Failure Scenario Narrative: A vivid 2-paragraph retrospective on what went wrong.
  • Top 5 Plausible Failure Vectors: Categorized with severity and likelihood.
  • Leading Indicators: Metric anomalies that warn of impending failure.
  • Pre-Launch Remediation Actions: Concrete checklist before green-lighting launch.

Avoid

  • Mild, trivial issues (focus on catastrophic, project-killing risks).
  • Vague mitigations like "improve monitoring".
Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago First seen · 38 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 1681ccf51cfb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pre-mortem-facilitator is a skill published in the GitHub repository codebygarv/Ai-skills (25 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 347 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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