Think Premortem

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Sales · Sub-category: prospecting

Prospective failure imagination for a plan, decision, or running system. Operates in two modes — **plan mode** (a plan has not yet been committed to; imagine its catastrophic failure broadly) and **scenario mode** (a specific catastrophic scenario is posed against an existing system; investigate causes against the actual code and architecture). Spawns parallel pre-mortemers in isolation across three categories of lens: standard failure classes (technical, operational, estimation, scope, adoption, dependency, team, incentive, detection, reversibility, adversarial), 0-3 ad-hoc target-specific lenses the orchestrator names when warranted, and a first-principles lens that always runs to catch what the prescribed taxonomy misses. Synthesizes into a prioritized risk register with early-warning signals. Produces feedback only — no code, no tickets, no artifacts.

What this skill does

Think Premortem is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the prospecting sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/think-premortem/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Think Premortem skill is built for sales development reps, account executives, revenue operations teams, and customer success managers. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

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

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

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

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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