pre-mortem SKILL.md skillA
pre-mortem from stefanoskarakasis/product-marketing-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add stefanoskarakasis/product-marketing-skills/pre-mortem@v3.1.0Pins v3.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- stefanoskarakasis/product-marketing-skills
- Path
pmm-execution/skills/pre-mortem/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v3.1.0, committed Oct 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 11, 2026
- Size
- 15,207 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7
- License
- MIT
Runs a cross-functional pre-mortem on a strategic initiative (product launch, pricing change, GTM pivot, new market entry, feature rollout) and surfaces the Tigers, the deal-blocking risks, with owner-assigned action plans. Use before a launch or major move, while what could go wrong is still cheap to fix.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Pre-Mortem — Skill ## How This Works A pre-mortem flips the question from "what could go wrong?" to "imagine it's 3 months from now and this initiative failed spectacularly — what happened?" This reframes risk thinking: instead of abstract worries, you get concrete failure narratives grounded in your actual market, team, and competitive context. Your job is to facilitate, not fear-monger. The skill runs in 7 steps: **Step 0** — Load guardrails from `/context/meta-patterns.md`, if it exists (e.g., "pricing changes without competitive posture cost prior launches" — an example pattern shape) and surface them before intake. **Step 1** — Intake: Gather initiative name, scope, timeline, target customer, and announcement level. Brain-load ICP and positioning to ground discussion. **Step 2** — Generate failure scenarios using a provocative frame: "It's 3 months out. Revenue missed, team demoralized, customers churned. Why?" **Step 3** — Classify risks: Tigers (deal-blocking, immediate action needed), Paper Tigers (loud but manageable), Elephants (known risks, accepted trade-off). …
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How to install
mdr add stefanoskarakasis/product-marketing-skills/pre-mortem@sha256:c0c45d60577d05beThe line at the top of this page pins the label v3.1.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Sep 11, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 9 days.
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| v3.1.0 latest | 2026-10-19 | f2a0167 | 15,207 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.1.0 | 2026-10-11 | 5b18188 | 15,280 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.0.1 | 2026-10-05 | fc09ef3 | 15,106 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.0.1 | 2026-09-26 | e1d784e | 14,660 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.0.0 | 2026-09-11 | d526fd1 | 14,669 B | A | view |
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Source
stefanoskarakasis/product-marketing-skills · 7 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fpqdwtoeren55qu3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=stefanoskarakasis/product-marketing-skills/pre-mortem GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c0c45d60577d05bed211973d89be890912c91ae08cb40838e0df453fec66e95e
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