What problem does it solve?
Early-stage project options often hide fatal assumptions and unbudgeted costs, especially in legacy systems. This Skill stress-tests every option from the ideation session before a decision is made, exposing the premises that could kill the project while they are still cheap to kill.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Premortem Analysis: Generates 2-4 distinct failure headlines with different root causes, then asks the user which one scares them most to set severity order.
- Per-Option Attack: For each option in
options.md, identifies the single killing premise, a cheap test for it, the hidden cost (anchored to concrete legacy files or specs), and the point of no return.
- Cross-Cutting Risk Register: Checks applicable transversal risks such as single-person dependency, regulatory obligations, third-party integrations, data migration, and authentication changes.
- Use Case: After running the Explorer agent on a legacy modernization idea, invoke the Challenger to produce
risks.md in the active ideation session, so the Arbiter agent can score options against concrete risks.
Quick Start
Ask the agent to run the Challenger premortem on the current ideation session and generate the risks.md document.
