pre-mortem

pre-mortem is a skill for Claude Code from elasticdotventures/_b00t_. It costs 24 tokens per session (440 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A planning exercise that assumes a project has already failed, then works backward to identify what went wrong. A pre-mortem is a risk-checking technique associated with Gary Klein.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing project plans, finding likely failure points, and preparing mitigations.
Why use it?
It helps uncover risks before work begins, when there is still time to address them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the b00t plugin — 58 skills, 13 commands, 25 agents, 7 MCP servers, 2 plugins shipped together

Good fit It is for reviewing project plans, finding likely failure points, and preparing mitigations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elasticdotventures/_b00t_/pre-mortem
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 elasticdotventures/_b00t_ --skill pre-mortem
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elasticdotventures/_b00t_

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install b00t, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 58 skills, 13 commands, 25 agents, 7 MCP servers, 2 plugins.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for pre-mortem

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for pre-mortem

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 440 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 unknown 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 $0.00024 $0.00440
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00220
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00044

Measured 5d ago against content hash 072ab5b8cbd3, 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 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/pre-mortem/SKILL.md · 39 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 39 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 072ab5b8cbd3

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pre-mortem is a skill published in the GitHub repository elasticdotventures/_b00t_ (14 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 440 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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