think-premortem SKILL.md skillA
think-premortem from product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-premortem@v0.1.0Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills
- Path
skills/think-premortem/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Oct 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 1, 2026
- Size
- 5,517 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- Apache-2.0
Generates a ranked risk register that stress-tests a planned decision by imagining it has already failed, surfacing the likely causes and pairing each with a mitigation, tripwire, and kill criterion. Use when about to commit to a launch, hire, investment, migration, or any risky, hard-to-reverse decision, or when you need risks surfaced before committing.
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
<!-- thinking-framework-skills | https://github.com/product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills | Apache-2.0 --> # Premortem A premortem stress-tests a plan by assuming it has *already failed* and reasoning backward to explain why, then converting each cause into a mitigation, a tripwire, and a kill criterion. The shift from "what might go wrong?" to "it went wrong, why?" is what does the work: it licenses dissent, surfaces more and more specific causes than ordinary risk review, and turns vague worry into pre-committed action while you can still change course. The output is a **risk register**, not a discussion. ## When to Use - Before a launch, hire, investment, migration, vendor selection, or any consequential, hard-to-reverse commitment. - When a plan has optimistic momentum and you suspect concerns are going unspoken. - When you want risks expressed as observable signals and pre-decided responses, not a feeling of caution. - Often *after* options have been compared and one has been chosen, as the last gate before committing. ## When NOT to Use - **After the outcome is known.** That is a postmortem, a different tool. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-premortem@sha256:bbf90a60ffd60ebeThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_mngsgyklfocpyyp6)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jun 1, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 28 days.
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| v0.1.0 latest | 2026-10-19 | f0e6285 | 5,517 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-10-17 | 7e5bd11 | 5,447 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-10-17 | 8ab7eb9 | 5,288 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-09-15 | 01156a8 | 5,204 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-06-12 | f4e7d9a | 5,161 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-06-01 | 5bad9cb | 4,916 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5517 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills · 25 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mngsgyklfocpyyp6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-premortem GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bbf90a60ffd60ebe9e03cfb98f485f9f2f626d7d968a6ad8e0900e27837be1d2
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