enumerate-failure-modes

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Lets your agent turn functions, process steps, or scenarios into explicit lists of failure modes.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the enumerate-failure-modes skill

About this skill

Convert functions/process steps/scenarios into explicit failure modes.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine in skills/enumerate-failure-modes/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Purpose

Convert functions, process steps, or scenarios into explicit failure modes.

Input contract

required: [functions_or_steps, intended_outcomes, operating_conditions]
optional: [failure_history, stakeholders]
constraints: [failure mode must state deviation from intended outcome]

Procedure

  1. Decompose functions or steps.
  2. Enumerate plausible deviations and affected outcomes.
  3. Record causes, effects, detectability, and evidence gaps.

Output contract

produces: [failure_mode_register, cause_candidates, effect_candidates, detection_notes]
delta_fields: [findings, evidence_updates, uncertainties, open_questions]

Quality gates

  • Each mode has a function/step, deviation, effect, and provenance.

Failure and counterexamples

Do not list generic risks without a specific function or operating condition.

Provenance map

  • resolved: failure-mode-extraction

Signals

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Last commit
Sep 2026
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enumerate-failure-modes
Source
github.com/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine