eterdis-pre-mortem

A pre-mortem analysis is a risk-management technique that imagines a plan's failure before commitment. This Skill guides a diagnostic session to surface hidden assumptions, evaluate failure modes across six categories, and align teams on plan adjustments.

Yes, the pre-mortem workflow is designed for major commitments such as product launches, investments, or partnerships. It tracks assumptions, identifies failure modes, and defines monitoring triggers to stress-test these high-stakes decisions.

The monkey test identifies the critical unknowns in a strategic plan and designs minimal, cost-effective validation experiments. It is a core component of the diagnostic pre-mortem session used to stress-test your assumptions before commitment.

Use the Alert Triggers mode to define and monitor early warning signals across four trigger categories. You can also run the Review mode monthly to check previous findings for changed probabilities and new failure modes.

The Skill automatically updates company-context.md with active assumptions, plan adjustments, and session logs. This provides cross-session continuity and tracks the four response options available in the plan-adjustment framework.