What problem does it solve?
This Skill helps product teams and engineers identify potential failure scenarios early in the design process, reducing the risk of costly changes after implementation.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Phase-driven risk discovery: Systematically identifies risks across user behavior, system states, tools, data, concurrency, and integration points.
- Taxonomy-based analysis: Applies a structured taxonomy (User Behavior, System, Tool, Data, Concurrency, Integration) to categorize risks.
- Actionable mitigation guidance: Provides recommended strategies such as pre-flight checks, graceful degradation, retries with backoff, user prompts, and rollback plans.
- Structured reporting: Generates concise risk summaries and prioritized action items for design reviews.
Quick Start
Run the edge-case-analyst during planning sessions to enumerate potential risks for a feature and generate a prioritized mitigation plan. Example: open a planning doc and execute the risk discovery prompts to capture edge-case scenarios.