ContinuousClaudeV4.7: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/premortem/SKILL.md

premortem is a skill for Claude Code from parcadei/ContinuousClaudeV4.7. It costs 22 tokens per session (626 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-implementation review that imagines how a planned project could fail and identifies the causes. It classifies risks as clear threats, manageable concerns, or important issues being overlooked.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after writing a plan or specification and before coding to inspect failure scenarios, identify necessary conditions, and add safeguards.
Why use it?
It exposes weak assumptions, shortcuts, missing tests, and dependencies before implementation makes them expensive to fix. This gives the plan specific risks to mitigate early.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

This is parcadei/ContinuousClaudeV4.7's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ContinuousClaudeV4.7 itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything ContinuousClaudeV4.7 configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to parcadei/ContinuousClaudeV4.7. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/parcadei/ContinuousClaudeV4.7/main/.claude/skills/premortem/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/parcadei/ContinuousClaudeV4.7

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 626 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00022 $0.00626
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00313
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00063

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5b56e7e2fd9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

premortem 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.

.claude/skills/premortem/SKILL.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

Failure-state projection before implementation. Combines Shreyas risk taxonomy with first-principles retrospective reasoning. Runs after plan/spec, before work begins.

Risk categories: Tiger (clear threat requiring mitigation), Paper Tiger (appears threatening but manageable), Elephant (avoided topic with systemic impact).

Read target plan/spec files. Project forward to completion, then reason backward from imagined failure states. For each failure vector, trace backwards through these lenses:

Base assumptions that led astray. What foundational beliefs about users, tech, or timeline proved wrong? Cross-reference with project goals for contradiction points.

Shortcuts taken. Where did expediency override quality? Which "temporary" solutions became permanent? Map to technical debt accumulation.

Weak implementations. What components got minimal attention or testing? Single points of failure, untested edge cases.

Missing evaluations. What tests, metrics, or validations were skipped? How would we have caught deviation earlier?

Necessity conditions. What must remain true for task success? Environmental dependencies, resource availability, stakeholder alignment.

Nth-order effects. Secondary and tertiary consequences of primary decisions. Cascading failures, emergent behaviors, unintended interactions.

For each identified failure mode: falsifiable check (how to verify this risk is real vs imagined), root cause (distinguish proximate trigger from underlying system issue), cognitive bias scan (overconfidence, planning fallacy, confirmation bias, availability heuristic), then classify as tiger/paper tiger/elephant.

Risk output format:

premortem:
  status: BLOCK|WARN|PASS
  tigers:
    - risk: "assumption X fails when Y"
      evidence: "file:line or observable condition"
      root_cause: "fundamental issue behind symptom"
      bias: "cognitive bias driving the assumption"
      falsifiable_test: "specific way to verify or disprove"
      mitigation: "required action before proceeding"
  paper_tigers:
    - risk: "appears threatening but bounded"
      why_manageable: "specific constraints limiting damage"
  elephants:
    - risk: "avoided systemic issue"
      why_avoided: "reasons for non-discussion"
      true_impact: "actual consequences if unaddressed"

Decision gate: Tigers present with no mitigation path — BLOCK, require mitigation before implementation. Only paper tigers and elephants — WARN, proceed with documented awareness. No significant risks — PASS.

Use AskUserQuestion only for tiger-level risks requiring implementation hold: "BLOCKED: {risk summary}. Options: add mitigation, accept with justification, need research."

Every risk must specify concrete evidence and a falsifiable test. If you cannot state what would disprove the risk, it is not a verified finding — demote to paper tiger or discard.

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 · 54 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 5b56e7e2fd9c

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premortem is a skill published in the GitHub repository parcadei/ContinuousClaudeV4.7 (48 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 626 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 2026-08-30.

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