Life Premortem

Q: What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Life Premortem skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Life Premortem is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Content category. Learn more at https://claudskills.com/learn/what-is-skill-md/.

Category: Content · Sub-category: storytelling · Last updated: 2026-08-10

Write the failure story of your year, relationship, move, or big life bet in advance — imagine it's a year later and it went wrong, tell that story vividly, then mine it for the real risks and the cheap things that would have prevented them. Use when someone says 'I'm about to make a big life change', 'what could go wrong with this', 'de-risk my year', or is committing to something large and irreversible. Produces the failure narrative, the extracted risk list with preventatives, and the early-warning signs to watch. The life-scale sibling of a project premortem.

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From the source SKILL.md

Optimism is required to start big things and dangerous once you've started — because a mind committed to a plan goes blind to how it fails. The premortem flips that: instead of asking "what might go wrong?" (which the committed brain swats away), it says "it's a year from now and this failed — tell me the story of how." That small framing change unlocks honesty the forward-looking question can't. This skill runs it at life scale — the move abroad, the marriage, the career pivot, the sabbatical, the year's resolutions — turning a vivid failure story into a short list of real risks and the…

What this skill does

Life Premortem is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the storytelling sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/life-premortem/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when someone says 'I'm about to make a big life change', 'what could go wrong with this', 'de-risk my year', or is committing to something large and irreversible. Produces the failure narrative, the extracted risk list with preventatives, and the early-warning signs to watch.

Who uses this skill

The Life Premortem Claude Code skill is built for content creators, marketers, copywriters, SEO professionals, and editorial teams. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 186,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/life-premortem
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/life-premortem/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/life-premortem/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/life-premortem/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/life-premortem/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\life-premortem\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Life Premortem Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/life-premortem/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.

What does the Life Premortem skill do?

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

When should I use the Life Premortem skill?

Use Life Premortem when your Claude Code task falls under the Content category — specifically in the storytelling area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Life Premortem" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/content/.

What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Life Premortem skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Life Premortem is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Content category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/blob/HEAD/exports/openclaw/life-premortem/SKILL.md
License: MIT
Author: mohitagw15856
Website: https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/

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APA

mohitagw15856. (2026). Life Premortem [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/life-premortem/

BibTeX

@misc{life-premortem-2026,
  author    = {mohitagw15856},
  title     = {Life Premortem [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/life-premortem/}
}

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Security scan

Grade A · scanned 2026-08-15 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.

No risk patterns were found in any of the ten OWASP-aligned categories. How grading works ›

✓ Prompt injection
✓ Data exfiltration
✓ Supply chain
✓ Reverse shell
✓ Credentials
✓ Execution
✓ Filesystem
✓ Persistence
✓ Obfuscation
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