premortem

premortem is a skill for Claude Code from shwetank/bettersense. It costs 118 tokens per session (1,376 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A method for imagining how a decision, project, or initiative could fail before it starts. A pre-mortem is a risk discussion held before a launch or major commitment.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing plans, assessing risks, and discussing possible problems before a launch or strategic decision.
Why use it?
It helps teams find risks and weak assumptions early, while changes are still possible.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the bettersense plugin — 54 skills, 22 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for reviewing plans, assessing risks, and discussing possible problems before a launch or strategic decision.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shwetank/bettersense/premortem
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 shwetank/bettersense --skill premortem
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shwetank/bettersense

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bettersense, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 22 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 118 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,376 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 $0.00118 $0.01376
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.00688
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00275
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00138

Measured 11d ago against content hash e8f6f6ee56df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 11d 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.

plugin/skills/premortem/SKILL.md · 124 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. 11d ago First seen · 124 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A e8f6f6ee56df

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premortem is a skill published in the GitHub repository shwetank/bettersense (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 1,376 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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