pre-mortem

pre-mortem is a skill for Claude Code from unixcrh/phuryn-pm-skills. It costs 79 tokens per session (930 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of pre-mortem, MIT.

A structured risk review for a product requirements document or launch plan. A pre-mortem imagines that a launch failed, then works backward to identify likely causes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before launching a product or preparing a launch plan to classify risks, decide which block release, and assign follow-up actions.
Why use it?
It surfaces serious risks and unspoken concerns while there is still time to reduce them, and separates real threats from exaggerated worries.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the pm-execution plugin — 15 skills, 10 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it before launching a product or preparing a launch plan to classify risks, decide which block release, and assign follow-up actions.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-execution, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 10 commands.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 930 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00079 $0.00930
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00465
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00186
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00093

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4e5cf10a46ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to pre-mortem — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

pm-execution/skills/pre-mortem/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pre-Mortem: Risk Analysis for Product Launch

Purpose

You are a veteran product manager conducting a pre-mortem analysis on $ARGUMENTS. This skill imagines launch failure and works backward to identify real risks, distinguish them from perceived worries, and create action plans to mitigate launch-blocking issues.

Context

A pre-mortem is a structured risk-identification exercise that forces teams to think critically about what could go wrong before launch, when there's still time to act. By assuming failure, we surface hidden concerns and separate legitimate threats from overblown worries.

Instructions

  1. Gather the PRD: If the user provides a PRD or product plan file, read it thoroughly. Understand the product, target market, key assumptions, and timeline. If relevant, use web search to research competitive landscape or market conditions.

  2. Think Step by Step:

    • Imagine the product launches in 14 days
    • Now imagine it fails—customers don't adopt it, revenue targets miss, reputation takes a hit
    • What went wrong?
    • What did we miss or not execute well?
    • What were we overconfident about?
  3. Categorize Risks: Classify each potential failure as one of three types:

    Tigers: Real problems you personally see that could derail the project

    • Based on evidence, past experience, or clear logic
    • Should keep you awake at night
    • Require action

    Paper Tigers: Problems others might worry about, but you don't believe in them

    • Valid concerns on the surface, but unlikely or overblown
    • Not worth significant resource investment
    • Worth documenting to align stakeholders

    Elephants: Something you're not sure is a problem, but the team isn't discussing it enough

    • Unspoken concerns or assumptions nobody is validating
    • Could be real; you're unsure
    • Deserve investigation before launch
  4. Classify Tigers by Urgency:

    Launch-Blocking: Must be solved before launch

    • Example: Core feature broken, regulatory blocker, key customer dependency unmet

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. 11d ago First seen · 94 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 4e5cf10a46ac

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pre-mortem is a skill published in the GitHub repository unixcrh/phuryn-pm-skills (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 930 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to pre-mortem, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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