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Use before launching products or signing contracts, when needing to combat sunk cost fallacy, or when standard pre-mortems fail to change behavior
Pre-mortem risk analysis expert that classifies risks as Tigers, Paper Tigers, and Elephants to surface launch-blocking issues before they happen.
Imagine the project already failed, then work backward to find why. More powerful than risk assessment because it assumes failure is certain. Use when user says "pre-mortem", "premortem", "imagine this failed", "what could go wrong", "risk analysis", "before we launch", "stress test", "what would kill this", "project risks".
Validate a plan or spec before implementation using multi-model council. Answer: Is this good enough to implement? Triggers: "pre-mortem", "validate plan", "validate spec", "is this ready".
Run a pre-mortem risk analysis on a PRD or launch plan. Categorizes risks as Tigers (real problems), Paper Tigers (overblown concerns), and Elephants (unspoken worries), then classifies as launch-blocking, fast-follow, or track. Use when preparing for launch, stress-testing a product plan, or identifying what could go wrong.
Use when challenging ideas, plans, decisions, or proposals using structured critical reasoning. Invoke to play devil's advocate, run a pre-mortem, red team, or audit evidence and assumptions.
Use when exploring alternative scenarios, testing assumptions through "what if" questions, understanding causal relationships, conducting pre-mortem analysis, stress testing decisions, or when user mentions counterfactuals, hypothetical scenarios, thought experiments, alternative futures, what-if analysis, or needs to challenge assumptions and explore possibilities.
Pre-mortem analysis that imagines a plan has failed, then works backward to identify causes and preventions. Use before launches, major decisions, or risky initiatives to surface hidden risks.
Stress-test plans, proposals, and strategies. Use for pre-mortems, assumption audits, risk registers, evaluating business ideas, identifying failure modes, or when you need devil's advocate analysis before committing resources.
Guides failure-prevention culture and operational excellence for mission-critical engineering— zero-defect aspiration vs error budgets; HRO principles; defense-in-depth; fail-safe/fail-closed; verification gates and independent checks; redundancy and graceful degradation; pre-mortems and FMEA; stop-the-line; defect escape, near-miss, and repeat-incident metrics; leadership against normalization of deviance—not blame culture. Use for failure-prevention programs, HRO practices, verification gates, fail-safe design, pre-mortem/FMEA, stop-the-line, near-miss reporting, or defect-escape metrics—not SRE error budgets only (site-reliability-engineer), incident command only (incident-management-engineer), backup/restore only (cyber-resilience-engineer), CI lint only (build-validator), agile coaching, HR discipline, or classified ATO without ops-excellence lens (classified-cyber-security-senior-manager).
Challenges AI-generated plans, code, designs, and decisions before you commit. Pairs with any other skill as a review layer. Uses pre-mortem analysis, inversion thinking, and Socratic questioning to find what AI missed — blind spots, hidden assumptions, failure modes, and optimistic shortcuts. The skill that asks "are you sure about that?" so you don't have to. Triggers on: "challenge this", "devils advocate", "stress test this plan", "what could go wrong", "poke holes in this", "review this critically", "second opinion on this design", "what am I missing". Use this skill when you need critical review of any AI-generated output, architecture decision, implementation plan, or code before committing to it.
Adversarial thinking partner for founders and executives. Stress-tests plans, prepares for board meetings, dissects decisions with no good options, forces honest post-mortems, and identifies blind spots before competitors or board members do. Use when you need plan validation, board preparation, hard decision frameworks, assumption stress-testing, failure analysis, or when user mentions stress test, challenge, board prep, hard decision, pre-mortem, post-mortem, devil's advocate, plan review, or executive coaching.