A pre-mortem beats a risk list because it's concrete: you assume the failure already happened and explain it, which surfaces problems a bland "what are the risks?" never does. This runs five independent pre-mortems from different causes, so you don't just get five versions of the same fear — you get the full failure surface, ranked, with the warning signs and the fixes worth doing before you start.
Pre Mortem Panel 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/pre-mortem-panel/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when asked to pre-mortem this, why might this fail, what are the risks before I start, or imagine this went wrong. Produces five distinct failure narratives (each from a different cause — execution, timing, people, external, wrong-assumption), the most likely and most lethal among them, the early warning signs of each, and the specific mitigations worth doing now — catching failures while they're still cheap to prevent.
The Pre Mortem Panel 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 178,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/pre-mortem-panel curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/pre-mortem-panel/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/pre-mortem-panel/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/pre-mortem-panel/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/pre-mortem-panel/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\pre-mortem-panel\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/pre-mortem-panel/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.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. Pre Mortem Panel 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/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{pre-mortem-panel-2026,
author = {mohitagw15856},
title = {Pre Mortem Panel [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/pre-mortem-panel/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-08-07 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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