/collaboration:pre-mortem
SkillAI & modelsImagine failure first to surface guardrails and feature mitigations.
Then ask your AI: use the /collaboration:pre-mortem skill
Details
Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.
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No other account needed.
Add it as a step in a pipeline you build on Ahel, or connect Ahel to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex and ask your AI to use it.
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by nickcrew/claude-cortex in skills/collaboration/pre_mortem/SKILL.md and read by Ahel’s review.
Use when planning initiatives where early risk surfacing saves rework.
Inputs
- Initiative and horizon (30/90/180 days)
- Success definition
- Known risks/compliance constraints
Steps
- Define success state and horizon (default 90 days).
- List top failure modes across tech, UX, org, market, compliance.
- For each, propose mitigations/guardrails with Effort (S/M/L) and Owner.
- Pull 2–3 mitigations that double as feature ideas.
- Create Tasks for guardrails or pass to
/ctx:plan.
Output Template
### Success State (horizon)
### Failure Modes
### Mitigations & Guardrails (effort, owner)
### Feature Candidates from Mitigations
### Immediate Tasks
Pairings
- Run after
/collaboration:concept-forgeto sanity-check top concepts. - Feed guardrails into
/dev:code-reviewor security skills as needed.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 50
- Forks
- 14
- Last commit
- Jun 2026
Advanced
- Item type
- skill
- Key
pre-mortem-nickcrew- Source
- github.com/nickcrew/claude-cortex
github.com/nickcrew/claude-cortex